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Top 40 - CHR - Churban - whatever......

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Scrappy

Remember when "Top 40" meant the 40 biggest songs each week?....That was when the songs on the list and stations were diverse - ala "Mainstream"......time passed - the list got shorter and shorter....new leans on the Top 40 format came to be......I can remember working for stations with 19 currents in rotation!.........its 2010......Spent 30 minutes in the car with my teenage daughter listening to Kiss...then 30 min listening to 101.5........every song - I mean EVERY song had the same "vocoder" effect on the singers voice. Each song had a dance beat - every song had the same style keyboard effects from what was once known as "rave". Man,I've been outta the loop for awhile - but is THIS really what its come to?....anyone can be a pop star - with the right equipment! Roger Troutman is turning over in his grave!
 
Sounds like someone could use some music with a little tuba and accordion. Always makes me feel better after listening to too much CHR/CHURBAN! ;D
 
scrappy said:
Remember when "Top 40" meant the 40 biggest songs each week?....That was when the songs on the list and stations were diverse - ala "Mainstream"......time passed - the list got shorter and shorter....new leans on the Top 40 format came to be......I can remember working for stations with 19 currents in rotation!.........its 2010......Spent 30 minutes in the car with my teenage daughter listening to Kiss...then 30 min listening to 101.5........every song - I mean EVERY song had the same "vocoder" effect on the singers voice. Each song had a dance beat - every song had the same style keyboard effects from what was once known as "rave". Man,I've been outta the loop for awhile - but is THIS really what its come to?....anyone can be a pop star - with the right equipment! Roger Troutman is turning over in his grave!
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Usher's "DJ Got Us Falling In Love Again" is to today's pop as Ace Frehley's "New York Groove" was to disco in 1978. Sometimes you need a gimmick to get a hit single. This year it's Auto Tune.
 
It's called trends. The same thing happened on a few stations when reggaeton blew up and I remember having to sit through an incredible amount of hip hop hits just to get to a dance sound when hip hop was dominating. There was also a period of time when all music sounded the way late 80's and early 90's music typically sounded, and as each phase in trends passed, you'd notice how almost every genre within that trend sounded very much alike (whether it be euro-dance or the 80's Planet Rock and Egyptian Lover sound with people talking in electronic voices). The same thing happened in the UK with UK 2 Step, Dubstep, Bassline, 4x4 drum & bass, and UK top 40 music (which hit the uptempo electro-pop trend before the U.S. did) and the same in places like Jamaica with soca, calypso, dancehall syles...etc. They all had a certain generational sound. It all goes in phases, and people will always try their best to imitate the style that's successful, just as an attempt to be successful themselves. The "problem" today is the top songs today are more similar in genre than it used to be back when people were more open minded about variety (in addition to the fact that most people born in a different era of time are less satisfied with today's music, therefore less interested in it and seeing it as "all the same" on a surface level, which doesn't help when you add the less variety in top 40 sound today on top of that).

Really, there's not too much difference between today's 120 bpm r&b/dance hits than Robin S. - Show me love...etc, and a lot of today's dance material are just modernizations of the old school freestyle, house, disco, booty bass ;D techno ...etc.

You may love this style of top 40 station sound though www.Q100atlanta.com they've held on to the variety sound (although that in itself is bringing out it's own controversy...) | Enjoy ;)
 
That's right, I said "it's" with the apostrophe s by mistake, but the point I'm delivering is still made. ;D

I wouldn't say "this year" it's auto tune. It's been "auto tune crazy" for some time now. Iguess T-Pain just happened to be far more effective in starting this auto-tune trend than Nasty Boy Klick or Eiffil 65 were in the 90's.
 
scrappy said:
Remember when "Top 40" meant the 40 biggest songs each week?....That was when the songs on the list and stations were diverse - ala "Mainstream"......time passed - the list got shorter and shorter....new leans on the Top 40 format came to be......I can remember working for stations with 19 currents in rotation!.........its 2010......Spent 30 minutes in the car with my teenage daughter listening to Kiss...then 30 min listening to 101.5........every song - I mean EVERY song had the same "vocoder" effect on the singers voice. Each song had a dance beat - every song had the same style keyboard effects from what was once known as "rave". Man,I've been outta the loop for awhile - but is THIS really what its come to?....anyone can be a pop star - with the right equipment! Roger Troutman is turning over in his grave!
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Oh forget it, I'm just wasting my time here just reading nonsense.
 
These days, programming music on CHR stations /is/ easy. Use the research, play what the focus groups like, your top rotations are less than 2 hours (80+ spins/week). Ke$ha, Enrique, Eminem, Rihanna, Flo-Rida... rinse-repeat. Insert a few #1's from 2004-2009 and you're golden.

Actually, if you work for Cumulus, you just let one guy program all the stations, I don't know why they even hire Program Directors there.
 
I do not want to say too much in the Phoenix section because its already gone a bit overboard in the Atl section about the state of top 40 there, and its been "overboard" for quite some time now. However, um ....shall I continue? .... Nah, let me leave it alone now. Lets keep the peace in Phoenix!  :-X The subject line is already too conspicuous as it is....

I was an idiot to even use KDM7000 or any name KDM related on here in the first place!  ;D
 
Wow I just realized I edited my previous post way too early - to the point where I cut out so much that it now doesn't even say anything anymore! Anyway, forget it.

scrappy said:
30 min listening to ........every song - I mean EVERY song had the same "vocoder" effect on the singers voice.  Each song had a dance beat - every song had the same style keyboard effects from what was once known as "rave". 
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I had my dance music comeback prediction for a few years now, but if I had known back in 2005 that it would go this far and I'd be seeing what was quoted above in 2010, I probably would've been less bothered with the state of electronic music in this country. Well, time for me to move on to my next prediction;

Alternative / Rock makes somewhat of a strong resurgence into the mainstream!
Lets see what the next generation of kids bring to the table...
 
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