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What songs do you think are perfect for a format flip?

tall_guy1 said:
I don't know how many dance stations there are, or probably none commercially, but this feels like a good fade out for one of them.
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The UK's Galaxy flipped to CHR Capital back in the early 2010s, and the last two songs were End Credits by Chase and Status, and Inner City Life by Goldie:

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Closing Words Jan 1st 2011 (1'56) - Galaxy Network

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A song for a station in any of the mentioned cities going dark:
genius.com

Suzy Bogguss – Goodnight

Missed you at your daddy's place / Missed you at your uncle's place / Drove down to your sister's / And she said that I missed you by a day / Me and what went wrong headed south
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Suzy Bogguss said:
So goodnight Raleigh, goodnight Durham
Goodnight Atlanta and Macon and Jacksonville
Live from high atop the hood of my car
I'm signing off, sweet dreams baby, wherever you are
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I have a good one for a station discarding Oldies for anything else:

"Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite" by Pookie Hudson & the Spaniels.

 
knapfordsouthern1 said:
Here's some other ones I thought of:
  • Flipping from rock to another format - "Closing Time" by Semisonic, "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio" by the Ramones or "I Remember You" by Skid Row.
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"Fade To Black" Metallica
"The Song Is Over" The Who (Classic Rock)
"Goodbye" Night Ranger
"Walk" Pantera (Hard Rock to CCM, WCCC-FM Hartford, CT signed off with this before switching to "K-Love".)

"Closing Time" is so overused for final song choices, it's a radio cliche. We gotta move past that and maybe go deeper. This list is a good start.
 
knapfordsouthern1 said:
Here's some other ones I thought of:
  • Flipping from rock to another format - "Closing Time" by Semisonic, "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio" by the Ramones or "I Remember You" by Skid Row.
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"Fade To Black" Metallica
"The Song Is Over" The Who (Classic Rock)
"Goodbye" Night Ranger
"Walk" Pantera (Hard Rock to CCM, WCCC-FM Hartford, CT signed off with this before switching to "K-Love".)

"Closing Time" is so overused for final song choices, it's a radio cliche. We gotta move past that and maybe go deeper. This list is a good start.
 
Bongwater said:
"Fade To Black" Metallica
"The Song Is Over" The Who (Classic Rock)
"Goodbye" Night Ranger
"Walk" Pantera (Hard Rock to CCM, WCCC-FM Hartford, CT signed off with this before switching to "K-Love".)

"Closing Time" is so overused for final song choices, it's a radio cliche. We gotta move past that and maybe go deeper. This list is a good start.
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Also:
  • "To Hell with the Devil" by Stryper (Rock to CCM; Stryper are literally one of the most famous Christian metal acts, and this song would basically fit the idea of the station dumping "the devil" for Christ-centered music; and besides, "Highway to Hell" would probably get overused if K-Love buys enough heritage rockers)
  • "Hurt" by Johnny Cash (alt/modern rock to any strain of country; maybe start by playing the Nine Inch Nails original, then cross-fading midway into the Cash version)
  • "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" by AC/DC (flipping or returning to rock from a softer format, like Soft AC)
 
Bongwater said:
"Fade To Black" Metallica
"The Song Is Over" The Who (Classic Rock)
"Goodbye" Night Ranger
"Walk" Pantera (Hard Rock to CCM, WCCC-FM Hartford, CT signed off with this before switching to "K-Love".)

"Closing Time" is so overused for final song choices, it's a radio cliche. We gotta move past that and maybe go deeper. This list is a good start.
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if your rock station has "The Eagle" as the name, then you play "Eagles Fly" by Sammy Hagar. that's exactly what KEGL did when 97.1 The Eagle flipped to Sunny 97.1 in 2004.
 
  • Flipping from alt rock to another format - "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" by Green Day
  • Flipping to Spanish CHR or AC from another format - "Bailamos" by Enrique Iglesias
 
"There Ain't No Country Music on This Jukebox" by Earl Scruggs and Tom T. Hall.

That would work for changing from country or for changing to what FM stations these days call country.

Has anyone mentioned "Bye Bye Bye" by NSync for changing from rhythmic CHR to something else?
 
vchimpanzee said:
"There Ain't No Country Music on This Jukebox" by Earl Scruggs and Tom T. Hall.

That would work for changing from country or for changing to what FM stations these days call country.

Has anyone mentioned "Bye Bye Bye" by NSync for changing from rhythmic CHR to something else?
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Quite a few have. A user earlier in the thread also suggested using Groove Coverage's "The End", which could also work for rhythmic CHRs signing off.
 
Here are some other ideas I thought of:
  • Flipping to a "Kat" (or "Cat", either spelling works)-branded format - "Stray Cat Strut" by the Stray Cats or "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat" from The Aristocats
  • Flipping from rhythmic CHR or dance to another format - "Don't You Worry Child" by Swedish House Mafia or "Evacuate the Dancefloor" by Cascada
 
davideduardo said:
I think the stunting is more for the staff to "unite around" than to arouse listener curiosity. Folks just don't spend a lot of time scanning the dial any more and would not likely discover a stunt unless it was so crazy that it got mentioned in social media or created chatter.
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Which is the best reason to do a "crazy" stunt today. If it goes viral, the amount of publicity you can get is worth it.
 


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