The CHR Dance Vacuum!!!

[szorn]

Just took a trip through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida and observed CHR's along the way. I know these states are just a sample of CHR's across the country but I assume they are representative of CHR reality. I listened to T.H.'s MIX-Fm, Evansville's HOT 96, Nashville's 107.5 The River, Atlanta's Q-100.5 and Star 94.1, North Florida's Hot 102.7, Gainesville's 105.3 Kiss-Fm, and Orlando's XL-106.7. Maybe I listened at the wrong times, every time, but not one dance hit the entire trip. Rhianna's SOS was the closest thing. Q-100.5 sounded the best and I'm sure they give dance airtime at night on the weekends but NO DANCE until I get home to Central Illinois and Q-96 revives my hope for dance on CHR's. Is this dance vacuum this bad country-wide? Tell me it ain't so!

 

[The-Major]

It sounds like a nice road trip, but if you were expecting to hear dance music on the radio then perhaps you took your trip southeastward about 8 years too late ! ;DI can only speak for the Florida CHR poppers. XL-106.7 was heavily into dance back in the day (late-1990s). When 95.3-PARTY arrived on the scene XL scaled back on the dance music. The same scenario occurred with Y-100 en Miami when PARTY-93.1 arrived on the last day of 2001. Neither station has recovered since. Gainesville has always been a rock town, so KISS there wouldn't dare.Long live those days in 1998 when much of CHR-POP radio in Florida sounded like the German pop charts !THE MAJOR

 

[chrisorlando]

Unfortunately, XL's mix shows on the weekend are hip-hop and not dance. Cascada is still being played in heavy rotation but thats it. Except this past weekend, XL had a "Back in the Day" Memorial Day Weekend and played some old dance music, but again it was mostly old hip hop. FLZ in Tampa has a great dance show on Friday and Saturday nights and now WAOA in Melbourne has started a Saturday night club party featuring dance. But again, no dance other than Cascada is played during normal hours

 

[The-Major]

Good point Chris. I was in Orlando last weekend and I caught a lot of the 'Back In The Day' weekend. Apparently XL's idea of 'Back In The Day' is 'Back In The Hip Hop & Rap Day'. They neglected their dance roots of 'Back In The Day'. They played a lot of cool music though. When I left Pleasure Island on both nights (XL) had club music on - and it was again hip hop music. I think they were broadcasting LIVE from Paris Hilton's nightclub on one of those nights.By the way at Pleasure Island - Mannequin's specifically - they are mixing in more and more dance remixes of - YES - you guessed it - urban and hip hop tracks. The trance, techno, and house is only about half of the music mix there now.THE MAJOR

Unfortunately, XL's mix shows on the weekend are hip-hop and not dance. Cascada is still being played in heavy rotation but thats it. Except this past weekend, XL had a "Back in the Day" Memorial Day Weekend and played some old dance music, but again it was mostly old hip hop. FLZ in Tampa has a great dance show on Friday and Saturday nights and now WAOA in Melbourne has started a Saturday night club party featuring dance. But again, no dance other than Cascada is played during normal hours

 

[lalumia]

you said you didn't hear 'one dance hit'; that's because, with the exception of Cascada,there ARE NO national dance hits for you to hear,the dance industry has doomed itself by sticking to boring diva, la la la records that no one wants to hear,it's their own doing,and they've marginalized themselves into oblivion....

 

[joeb728]

i guess we should be thankful for the one's we have...luckily i live in an area where dance is embraced here in Southern New England ala Fun 107.Even with the comings and goings of other dance stations in the past, they have never changed their ways like XL 106.7 and Y 100.7...i do remember when i lived in Daytona Beach back in 93-95 XL 106.7 was awesome playing songs like Mr Vain by Culture Beat and I Fell in Love by Rockell

 

[The-Major]

I lived in Melbourne and Tampa (simultaneously) during most of 1993 and into 1994. 107.1-A1A was more than half European dance music at the time. XL-106.7 was pretty close to that as well, and THE POWER PIG (at the time) did a great job of it as well. But then again that was in 1993 and 1994 when European dance music was pretty much HUGE nationwide (and mainstream). It sort of tapered off after that (except for here in Florida). The dance music kept on going here in The Sunshine State through most of the rest of the 1990s.THE MAJOR

Even with the comings and goings of other dance stations in the past, they have never changed their ways like XL 106.7 and Y 100.7...i do remember when i lived in Daytona Beach back in 93-95 XL 106.7 was awesome playing songs like Mr Vain by Culture Beat and I Fell in Love by Rockell

 

[Louis_009]

Next time u come down to the southeast driving around again if I was you I should buy an XM Radio and u can listren to anywhere while ur on vaction again. XM Radio has 5 dance channels for dance hits u wanted will be XM-81 (BPM) will be the channel for you. I have XM Radio and it great.....