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The 40 Most Played Classic Rock Songs of 2025 (So Far)

K.M. Richards said:
Which is, you must admit, good for people like me who program gold-based formats exclusively. The one thing I disagree with you about is your choice of words in "beat over the head tirelessly". It is obvious from the continued listening patterns that they do not feel that way, and -- opinion or no -- you're insulting them.
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In the same vein, I am always annoyed when posts call our highest researching songs as "burnt out" and "overplayed".

We play "those songs" (whichever they are in each format) often because our listeners "can't get enough of them". In research, our listeners say those "burnt out songs" are the ones that "make us turn up the volume" "sing along" (maybe out of tune!) or "hum along". They are songs that "mean something to us, and we love them".

I suspect that those that accuse us of playing "burnt out songs" have never been in a station music test process or participated in perceptual research.
 
davideduardo said:
In research, our listeners say those "burnt out songs" are the ones that "make us turn up the volume" "sing along" (maybe out of tune!) or "hum along". They are songs that "mean something to us, and we love them".

I suspect that those that accuse us of playing "burnt out songs" have never been in a station music test process or participated in perceptual research.
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Or ever sung or hummed along with their favorite songs, I suspect.

If they did get into a research group (no chance of that, given the screening process), they would be the ones screaming "you're all wrong" at the other participants.
 
davideduardo said:
In the same vein, I am always annoyed when posts call our highest researching songs as "burnt out" and "overplayed".

We play "those songs" (whichever they are in each format) often because our listeners "can't get enough of them". In research, our listeners say those "burnt out songs" are the ones that "make us turn up the volume" "sing along" (maybe out of tune!) or "hum along". They are songs that "mean something to us, and we love them".

I suspect that those that accuse us of playing "burnt out songs" have never been in a station music test process or participated in perceptual research.
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I used to take the weekly tests sent out by SiriusXM's The Highway fairly regularly. They consist of snippets of 30 songs currently being played on the channel, and ask participants if they love, like, feel neutral about, or dislike each one, or if they're unfamiliar with that particular song. They also ask the participants if they're tired of hearing each song. Do the tests you've been involved with over the years ask that last question, which to me indicates that SXM's country programmers do indeed care about burnout?
 
CTListener said:
I used to take the weekly tests sent out by SiriusXM's The Highway fairly regularly. They consist of snippets of 30 songs currently being played on the channel, and ask participants if they love, like, feel neutral about, or dislike each one, or if they're unfamiliar with that particular song. They also ask the participants if they're tired of hearing each song. Do the tests you've been involved with over the years ask that last question, which to me indicates that SXM's country programmers do indeed care about burnout?
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In my experience, people participating in such music testing tend to rate the songs they are "tired of hearing" at the low end of the scale. That brings down the average of those songs, which then impacts their relative rankings. Usually, very little of that happens; when we see it to large degree we usually look at respondents' overall responses and if one person does that to practically all of the songs being tested, we know it's one of those "burnt to a crisp" types and exclude their ratings.

I cannot fathom why SXM would ask that kind of loaded question during music testing, as it would seem to invite a lot of respondents to volunteer titles which they don't really dislike but would be happy to hear less often. We can usually tell from the averaged rankings which songs need to be "backed off".

But then, I don't consider what SXM does to be actual radio programming ... nor does it need to be, since it is a subscription service. Comparing them to what we do is the proverbial "apples vs. oranges".
 
CTListener said:
I used to take the weekly tests sent out by SiriusXM's The Highway fairly regularly. They consist of snippets of 30 songs currently being played on the channel, and ask participants if they love, like, feel neutral about, or dislike each one, or if they're unfamiliar with that particular song. They also ask the participants if they're tired of hearing each song. Do the tests you've been involved with over the years ask that last question, which to me indicates that SXM's country programmers do indeed care about burnout?
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Whether online or in person, I have always used a numeric scale. In in-person tests, we'd use a 0 to 100 dial, and online a scale ranked 0 to 100 with the mid point marked.

In neither case did I ask about burn, as the point of testing is to see if a person wants to hear a song on the radio today. The reason they might not want to goes from burn to "that's the song my ex loved".
 
Where I work at, we are currently running a limited engagement program in our planetarium that is a light/visual show synced to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Yes there are quite a few old people at these shows, but at the same time a lot of college students, young adults and children with their parents. That is what makes it timeless music.

On summer vacations growing up, my late father would put in dubbed cassette tapes of LPs from Pink Floyd, George Thorogood, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yes, U2, etc. for long trips on the interstate. I will always have a deep appreciation for those artists because of the good memories I shared on those trips, and to me, cancels out any burnout.

I wouldn’t equate Jon Bon Jovi with Pink Floyd (who would?), but his music will assuredly endure for a long time to come.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Where I work at, we are currently running a limited engagement program in our planetarium that is a light/visual show synced to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Yes there are quite a few old people at these shows, but at the same time a lot of college students, young adults and children with their parents. That is what makes it timeless music.

On summer vacations growing up, my late father would put in dubbed cassette tapes of LPs from Pink Floyd, George Thorogood, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yes, U2, etc. for long trips on the interstate. I will always have a deep appreciation for those artists because of the good memories I shared on those trips, and to me, cancels out any burnout.

I wouldn’t equate Jon Bon Jovi with Pink Floyd (who would?), but his music will assuredly endure for a long time to come.
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Jon Bon Jovi also doesn’t scream and yell at his fans at concerts, like Roger Waters has.
 
radiofan2023 said:
Jon Bon Jovi also doesn’t scream and yell at his fans at concerts, like Roger Waters has.
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Yes. I saw him once, and did enjoy hearing "Brick" live, but the rest of the show had a lot of screaming and way too much politics.
 
radiofan2023 said:
And some VIP tickets go for $600! I can get screamed at for free just by calling my ex.
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Hahaha!

We paid over $2,000 each. But the show included the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, The Who, Dylan and Neil Young, so we got our money's worth... and even got to take our chair home!
 
davideduardo said:
Yes. I saw him once, and did enjoy hearing "Brick" live, but the rest of the show had a lot of screaming and way too much politics.
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Just curious. Have you ever gone to a concert by a conservative artist -- Ted Nugent, say, or Kid Rock, or Toby Keith during his feud with the (Dixie) Chicks -- and been similarly subjected to politics from the stage? If so, did you consider it an annoyance as you did Waters' politics, or were you fine with the right-wing talk because it conformed with your world view? I'm one of those "shut up and play" people who don't want to hear ANY politicking from the stage regardless of left/right unless the performer is a folk singer or comedian with views similar to mine.
 
CTListener said:
Just curious. Have you ever gone to a concert by a conservative artist -- Ted Nugent, say, or Kid Rock, or Toby Keith during his feud with the (Dixie) Chicks -- and been similarly subjected to politics from the stage? If so, did you consider it an annoyance as you did Waters' politics, or were you fine with the right-wing talk because it conformed with your world view? I'm one of those "shut up and play" people who don't want to hear ANY politicking from the stage regardless of left/right unless the performer is a folk singer or comedian with views similar to mine.
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I've been to a few concerts with conservatives from the Country side of music, but they made little comments, not screaming rants and a pig shaped balloon that traveled over the crowd.
 
I'm not going to be bent out of shape about any of those music selections. While I don't want to hear these songs all of the time, they're all good songs and absolutely deserve to be in the rotation.

I'm far more put off by hearing something that seems completely out of place and outside of the format. KOLA 99.9 on the east side of LA is more of an example of that (though I think it technically works for them since they are targeting a specific listener base).
 


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