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What do you think of this type of playlist

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CHR_FAN_TX

I have slacker radio app on my phone and I created my own variety hits station that pretty much mixes every kind of music I like..This is what songs have played on it so far based on artists I added..Would something like this work on the FM dial here?

Pat Benatar-Invincible
Fuel-Falls On Me
Depeche Mode-People Are People
Matchbox 20-Bent
Technotronic-Move This
Steve Miller-Abracadabra
Heart-Crazy On You
3 Doors Down-Kryptonite
Samantha Fox- Naughty Girls
Styx-Come Sail Away
Richard Marx-Hold On To The Nights
Pearl Jam-Better Man
Tone Loc-Wild Thing
Phil Collins-Sussudio
Staind-It's Been Awhile
Michael Jackson-Beat It
Joan Jett-I Love Rock N Roll
Robin S-Show Me Love
Gerry Rafferty-Baker Street
Def Leppard-Love Bites
Green Day-Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Paula Abdul-Cold Hearted
Erasure-Chains Of Love
Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way
Blind Melon-No Rain
Whitney Houston-I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Poison-Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Under The Bridge
Taylor Dayne-Tell It To My Heart
Coldplay-Yellow
Genesis-Land of Confusion
Tom Petty-Free Fallin
Real Life-Send Me An Angel
Santana-Smooth
Commodores-Brick House
Heart-What About Love
Haddaway-What Is Love
Kenny Loggins-I'm Alright
Matchbox 20-3AM
Huey Lewis-Power Of Love
Cathy Dennis-Too Many Walls
Aerosmith-Dream On
Lit-My Own Worst Enemy
Sting-If I Ever Lose My Faith
Pat Benatar-Love Is A Battlefield
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit
Young MC-Bust A Move

.....Well you kinda get the idea hehe..Very wide range of music and more songs played by similar artists..Opinions?
 
Very 80s-90s mix...what KISS/Y95 used to play..I would say the format might work...
 
This looks good to me and I'm in my 50s.

I'm always amazed at the variety of music people enjoy. I look at my musical tastes and wonder how many musical personalities are stuck in my head. I like AC/DC and classical, bluegrass and reggae, top 40, classic rock and the list goes on, all depending on my mood. I find lots of people are the same way.

I'm also amazed about how 'familiar' versus compatible seems to be the key in programming. It seems people may not like a song so much but because it is a familiar tune to them, they don't mind it. It is as if you can builld a format on two different criteria: format and familiar, so long as the familiar is universal among your target demo. It is as if some music is liked because it is known and some music really creates that magic for your ears. I think we get stuck on the magic to your ears part and that's not just generational.

Before I started in radio, I worked in a record store and learned that we like boxes but refuse to stay in the box. The labels and media create music categories and file new music accordingly. Radio listeners and music buyers only know three classifications: good, bad and mediocre although more times than not, choices do fit in a box.

None of this makes creating the next format easy (and it is always hardest to remove myself from the mix) but it sure makes for a fun challenge.
 
I still say a "deep cuts" for the pre-MP3 generation would work well. I've said before on this board that all those songs we were top-40 songs, sold a lot of albums. Think about Journey's "Escape" album...who doesn't love "Still They Ride"? There's a million examples you use. That would seem different and break through the standard formats. "The artists you love, the songs never played on the radio" kinda thing.
 
There's a lot of different ways to tackle the concept of variety.

The playlist posted at the start of this thread is a good example: most of those songs did pretty well on pop radio at some point in the seventies, eighties, or nineties...but would not get played on a pop oldies format today because the radio industry doesn't consider them to be "pop songs". The classic example of this is from when the first "Mix" station launched 20 years ago down in Houston. When they did their auditorium testing for their oldies library, one of their best testing songs was "Stairway to Heaven". So did they play it? Of course not...they concluded that it "didn't fit the format" and so they ignored the expressed preference of their target demo.

What was the problem? I think it's that they considered "Stairway to Heaven" to be a "classic rock" song...but to their listeners it was just another pop oldie (it was all over the top 40 stations I listened to in the mid and late seventies).
 
I am one of the few male AC listeners, and I also have eclectic tastes. I can listen to soft rock, classic rock, classic hits, top 40, hot AC, CHR (but not too heavy). This is why I like the Jack's, Bob's and Dave's.
 
I am a 30 year old male and can honestly say I have tastes in almost everything..childhood in the 80's if I was driving around with my mom in the car, she listened to Top 40/Pop and my if I was with my dad he listened to classic rock.. I even remember their fav stations back then..we lived in Va Beach..My mom had me listening to Z104..my dad listened to The Fox..I went thru the grunge/Top 40 phase during middle school and high school, and for years and years (96-2005ish) Kiss Fm was my station..before they changed to almost ALL hip hop..now I usually find myself listening to KLUV, KVIL, or Mix 102.9 for pop fix now lol..so yeah, my music is all over the map
 
Call me radical, but the deep cuts that some merit. There are many album tracks from rather universally known albums that can season a format...perhaps a dose of deep tracks with the initial playlist.

I got to watch KFAN in Fredericksburg, Texas grow into what it i today. It took a couple of years to catch on but the station featuring lots of obscure tracks knew who they wanted to attract and where this audience would come from. Today they have rather legendary status in the area, are well respected and 'mainstream' to the public. It was really risky but the owner was in it for the long haul and it paid off. Still they have no playlist, just a clock to guide the mix, as tracks are played by category. Folks like it and listen...Stay cool this summer, keep the 'Fan" on.
 
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