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The Best of '08

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alex4490

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Song of the Year:

Chris Brown - Forever

Artist of the Year - Rihanna

CHR Station of the Year - Kiss 95.1 (Charlotte)

well, what are yours?
 
Songs of the year

September-Cry for you...More spins than any other song and other CHRs slept on it..

David Guetta-Love is Gone-- A great dance track that gave us a good 6 to 8 month run.

Rhianna-Disturbia...

Chris Brown-Forever....I agree,, great song,,

Neyo-Closer

Flo Rida-Low

LIL Wayne-Lollipop

Metro Station-Shake it..huge record everywhere that had the gonads to add it....

CHR station's of the year...Too many to mention but these caught my ear for thinking outside the box or being in unusual places...

Small Market Z-Rock 107.5 Vigie-Pikeville KY for thinking outside the box with a CHR/ Active Rock Hybrid..... But not being afraid to play Dance Hits from September and Cascada

Powerhits 97.5 serving the Junction City, Fort Riley and Manhatten Kansas Markets, and also serving Salina and Topeka. Big Powerful signal with party Playhouse Afterhours and local small town talent through the day.

Channel X 94 Vernal Utah..... What an idea, to bring back the channel X slogan of the 90s, this station plays most the CHR Rhythmic and POP hits with a distinct Alternative modern Rock Lean and Imaging.
 
Mid West Clubber said:
Songs of the year

Rhianna-Disturbia...
Chris Brown-Forever....I agree,, great song,,
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no J-Hud (Jennifer Hudson) and "Spotlight"? no Little Jackie (my NEW favorite record!) and "The World Should Revolve Around Me"? (man, that latter one is all of a sudden all over the bleepin' place out here on the East Coast... :))

Andrea in NYC
 
Mid West Clubber said:
David Guetta-Love is Gone-- A great dance track that gave us a good 6 to 8 month run.
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??? ??? ???

please tell me you are kidding.
 
My girl didn't like dance music (or remixes) til she met me (now almost 2 yrs) and about 6 months ago I got her into dance and her favorite track from dance is Love is Gone, a great song and more CHR's should be on it !

She also likes his other tracks "Baby When the Lights go Out" "Everytime We Tocuh" and "Tomorrow Can't Wait"

In fact she likes most of the dance songs I like too now, which is a long list!!

Including Cascada "what hurts the most" and "Faded", Basshunters "Now Your Gone" and "All I Ever Wanted", Shiny Toy Guns "You are the One" and DJ Jose "Turn the Lights Off" this one caught me off guard but everytime she hears it on my CD player or ipartyradio.com it goes blasting

All that could have been Top 40 hits !

I think Dance would be good for CHR if tried, but don't overkill the playlist with them, like 3 or 5 at a time for current rotation (and it would give the format more variety - instead of the same songs every freakin 2 hours !) We are suppose to playing "all the hits"
 
Don't you guys think, if there were more good dance records/hits, a la Everytime We Touch, they'd be played on CHR? Don't get me wrong, my station played Cry For You along the lines of Z100.

Trying to play a good dance record and a bad dance record just because it's a dance record are 2 very different things. I'll play a dance hit. They're great for flow and uptempo energy. But I'm not gonna play a dance stiff, and that's what most of the dance stuff released to CHR in the past five years has been.
 
I know that you wouldn't want to play a dance stiff, but some of these songs are not stiffs and are huge dance hits in US/Cananda and Worldwide.

And if the music isn't even played, how can we determine it is a stiff ? Any research done ? If the public don't know it, they won't request it.

Rate the Music would be a start, but stations just have songs that is already on the air...not anything dance or even NEW/Fresh.

So why not at a certain time of the day have a song played and let the listeners call in "like it or hate it" - Primetime or Rush Hour is a good slot of it. If if is a dance track and over 50% of the vote hates then trash it, if they like it play it. And then to get more research on songs then put on the website similar to rate the music, but open the rate the music playlist out some. Not by putting old songs that are hits and now overplayed, askin the public do they like it still, duh we just are tired of it now.

Of course the Like It/Hate It will be used on other type of songs....pop, hip hop, rock, country, etc.

At least a couple of spins a week gives the public a chance to know if they like or not (and not at 2am-5am when most people are asleep). If no response then dump it.

I mean you talk about Everytime We Touch....but wasnt "What Hurts the Most" and Faded just as good. I mean look at Z100, What Hurts is # 10 of 2008. They gave it chance it worked. A dance track might not be that high on year end charts in all markets, but give it the chance and let the people decide that. If they don't request it, dump it and dump it fast.
 
Well I think if you're going to go by the sheer impact that a song had on the music industry, I think you have to look at Lil Wayne "Lollipop", Katy Perry "I Kissed a Girl", and T.I. "Whatever U Like"

Those are all songs that really boosted their respective artists into the mainstream, and let's face it - any of those three songs were EVERYWHERE during their peak and are songs that are really going to transcend time to where in 20 years, we're saying "You remember that song?"

My favorite CHR record of the year - Coldplay "Viva la Vida"

Artist of the year - Lil Wayne. I hate the guy's stuff personally, but he had a HUGE year. Honorable mention to Britney for actually making a legit comeback.

CHR station of the year - Z100 in NYC, B96 in Chicago
 
jjmac said:
Well I think if you're going to go by the sheer impact that a song had on the music industry, I think you have to look at Lil Wayne "Lollipop", Katy Perry "I Kissed a Girl", and T.I. "Whatever U Like"

Those are all songs that really boosted their respective artists into the mainstream, and let's face it - any of those three songs were EVERYWHERE during their peak and are songs that are really going to transcend time to where in 20 years, we're saying "You remember that song?"

My favorite CHR record of the year - Coldplay "Viva la Vida"

Artist of the year - Lil Wayne. I hate the guy's stuff personally, but he had a HUGE year. Honorable mention to Britney for actually making a legit comeback.

CHR station of the year - Z100 in NYC, B96 in Chicago
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But are "Lollipop," "I Kissed A Girl" and "Whatever U Like" going to be getting widespread, multi-format airplay say even five years from now? Probably not. Novelty records like "I Kissed A Girl" generally don't wear well. Personally, I think Coldpay's "Viva La Vida" had more impact industry-wide than any of the the three you mention even though it failed to go top at CHR.

If you want to talk about a CHR/Pop song which truly impacted the music industry, "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis easily had the most of any song out in 2008. Unlike the three you mention, "Bleeding Love" is going to be heard 5,10,20 years down the road on the radio - A LOT!

The buzz that went on about this song before it impacted was unlike anything I'd heard since "Complicated"... and it more than lived up to the hype. It had the longest run at the top of chart of any song this past year (10 weeks), not to mention it sold more copies than any other single in 2008. It also topped the Hot AC and AC charts... and went top 10 at Rhythmic. It even got some spins at Christian radio. Nothing else really had the broad appeal that this particular track did.

I'd say Chris Brown and Rihanna both had bigger years than Lil' Wayne... I do agree that Britney's comeback with the current #1 song in the nation in "Womanizer" and another possible one in "Circus" has been nothing short of amazing... after the last album, many of us had all but written her off.

Z-100 definitely gets my vote for station of the year.
 
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