Sample Hours - July 13

[CHRprogrammer]

What do you all think?


KELIS - Bossy
NICKELBACK - Far Away
NELLY FURTADO - Promiscuous
CHRIS BROWN / JUELZ SANTANA- Run It!
RIHANNA / SEAN PAUL - Break It Off
PANIC! AT THE DISCO - I Write Sins, Not Tragedies
PAULA DEANDA / BABY BASH - Doing Too Much
FIELD MOB / CIARA - So What

** STOPSET #1 **

YUNG JOC - It's Goin' Down
FALL OUT BOY - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
BUBBA SPARXXX / FRANKIE J - Run Away
NELLY - Hot in Here [Drop Song]

** STOPSET #2 **

FERGIE - London Bridge

 

[spongebag7890]

What do you all think?


KELIS - Bossy
NICKELBACK - Far Away
NELLY FURTADO - Promiscuous
CHRIS BROWN / JUELZ SANTANA- Run It!
RIHANNA / SEAN PAUL - Break It Off
PANIC! AT THE DISCO - I Write Sins, Not Tragedies
PAULA DEANDA / BABY BASH - Doing Too Much
FIELD MOB / CIARA - So What

** STOPSET #1 **

YUNG JOC - It's Goin' Down
FALL OUT BOY - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
BUBBA SPARXXX / FRANKIE J - Run Away
NELLY - Hot in Here [Drop Song]

** STOPSET #2 **

FERGIE - London Bridge

The beginning of Stopset #1 is weird

YUNG JOC - It's Goin' Down
FALL OUT BOY - Sugar, We're Goin' Down

But good playlist.

 

[The-Major]

As a listener I always like the urban to rock to urban flow (Kelis to Nickelback to Nelly Furtado and Rihanna & Sean Paul to Panic! At The Disco to Paula Deanda & Baby Bash). I don't like when two (or more) urban (or rock or pop for that matter) songs are played back-to-back.

I think your final songs (before both stopsets) should be pop or light rock such as current / recurrent hits from Red Hot Chili Peppers or The Fray or Blue Monday or Kelly Clarkson or Daniel Powter or the like.

THE MAJOR

 

[Herb999]

One new song, London Bridge, is better than none, that playlist therefore is 100% better than most on the air in America. Start playing the hits when they are hits and radio can become good again.

 

[spongebag7890]

You can't get a new song and have it debut in the top 10. It's IMPOSSIBLE. If all stations played a new song like crazy, have of the stations would die. They HAVE to see how well the song works in that city. They HAVE to see how well the song is gaining/dropping. The only way a song would debut even in the top 40 would be if it was a huge star (Which has been done only by Britney Spears, Eminem, J. Lo, etc).

 

[Herb999]

That's the problem, you shouldn't be running a station if you "have to see", you should know by having great ears and knowing the tastes of your target audience. By the time you see that it is a hit, half your audience is done with the record since they already downloaded it and played it for themselves since you didn't.

 

[spongebag7890]

That's the problem, you shouldn't be running a station if you "have to see", you should know by having great ears and knowing the tastes of your target audience. By the time you see that it is a hit, half your audience is done with the record since they already downloaded it and played it for themselves since you didn't.

Not really if they haven't actually heard the track yet...and as far as downloading, about 90% of hot unreleased tracks (like London Bridge) aren't even avaliable (SOS by Rihanna being the best example) And what do you mean about "done with the record" since they played it? CHR targets 12-20 something that like to hear the hit again, so a few hours later it comes on. That's why radio plays a #1 hit over 80 times a week...because it's what their audience (and as a country) likes...they wanna hear a song they liked again because it's just natural instinct of a human. And I've heard few records in the past five years that could even debut in the top 5 in a station playlist. And for most songs on Pop radio, most people don't like a song on first listen anyway. It's almost impossible for a DJ to know what songs the people like. They play it once if they think their audience will like it and if they do then they'll go for it a few more times.

 

[bueller]

How do you mean not avaliable? Could you clarify?