Revival?? That song has been played to death every day, every year since 1979.
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Songs taken off playlists during the Coronavirus saga
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Revival?? That song has been played to death every day, every year since 1979.
Did you read the Billboard article I linked?
This morning Good Time Oldies played "Only the Good Die Young".
Bad: "Love Shack" (heard on the local AC station this morning). Putting about 20 people into a Chrysler isn't a good idea these days.
Good: "Love Will Keep Us Together". Super-corny, but a good message for those who can't physically be with their loved ones.
Good: "Love Will Keep Us Together". Super-corny, but a good message for those who can't physically be with their loved ones.
Take everything by Air Supply off the playlist now. And playing songs by The Cure might be seen as offering a cruel false hope.
It's probably for the local and state updates on Conid-19.
Looks like Sirius is opting instead to play Tanya Tucker's version of Delta Dawn, last played earlier today.
it was played on Ch. 59, the '50s-'70s country channel, where it's among 18 songs of hers played in the last 7 days. Ten more have been played on '80s-'90s Ch. 58. She's a core artist on both channels, as well she should be. She was among the top female country artists for the better part of 20 years.
Did Tucker's various labels even promote her songs at Top 40 radio? She never had anything resembling a crossover hit. In fact, only "Lizzie and the Rainman" (1975) even cracked the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100, peaking at No. 37. "Delta Dawn" only hit No. 72 on the Hot 100; it was a No. 6 country hit. Maybe some Southern Top 40 stations in secondary and small markets were playing her big country hits in the '70s, but that's it. Her later hits, from 1986 through most of the '90s, got no CHR exposure at all.
That's an interesting subject. Her label at that time was Capitol. At that same time, they were home to a very popular singer named Garth Brooks. Amazingly, NONE of his singles crossed over during his peak period of popularity. He was strictly a country artist, heard strictly on country radio. And still managed to sell 100 million records during that decade. It was something he was very proud of. Truthfully, this was the big boom period for country music, and very few of its stars crossed over. Until Shania did it in 1996. But she actively sought to do it.
The words "country" and "Nashville" were prominent in the packaging and marketing of the music in those years. Capitol and Mercury's country product came from "Capitol Nashville" and "Mercury Nashville." That's how their artists were introduced in concert: "Country fans, let's welcome Mercury Nashville recording artist Kathy Mattea!"
As you say, there was enough nationwide buzz and sales for the labels to be comfortable in forgoing any attempts to get Garth -- or George Strait, Randy Travis or Clint Black, for that matter -- onto CHR stations, which by the early '90s were dominated by boy bands and early hip-hop. Those boom years, with their rural-sounding artists and frequent acoustic arrangements, were just about over by the time Shania came along, just as CHR was pushing new sounds from a new crop of assertive female artists.
That remains the case today, and is mainly indicative of the independence and autonomy of the country divisions from the larger company. Each of the major labels has a Chairman based in Nashville, overseeing the budgets & staffs of all departments, and reporting directly to the Chairman of the global company.
In the midst of this situation, you have the Dixie Chicks and their new single Gaslighter. Since 2002, they have been signed to Columbia New York, not Nashville. So the NY company has been forced to hire an indie promo company to work their single to country radio stations. The outside promo company is competing against Sony Music Nashville to get spins on country radio stations.
I thought that "The Thunder Rolls" crossed over to Pop because I heard it consistently on CHR at the time. I'm surprised to see that it didn't.
I never heard that song anywhere but country here. I do remember hearing Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Passionate Kisses" on AC stations, though, and it was indeed a No. 11 AC hit (No. 4 country) in early 1993. I wonder how many more anecdotal country "sightings" on CHR or AC this thread will generate before it returns to its topic.
"To Make You Feel My Love" was a pop crossover hit for Garth -- it reached #8 on the Billboard AC chart in 1998. Then a year later he created his "alter ego" Chris Gaines, and had a #5 pop and #9 AC hit with "Lost in You".
"To Make You Feel My Love" was from a movie soundtrack, so its likely the label promoted it to AC stations.
Adele recently had a pop hit with it. Garth says his daughters mainly know the Adele version.
I thought surely "The Dance" was a crossover hit.
Now can we get back on topic?
I was interpreting this post to mean "Leave Me Alone" was a song that shouldn't be on playlists.
As far as I know, "I Am Woman", "Angie Baby" and "You and Me Against the World" have never been off of America's Best Music.
Anyway, I was going to suggest "Alone" by Heart as a song that shouldn't be on playlists now.
I remember hearing it on WASL 100.1 in Dyersburg, TN, who was Hot AC at the time, but did have some country crossover as well. I also remember hearing Shameless.
Nope.
Heard at Stop & Shop supermarket today: Doctor's Orders -- Carol Douglas
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