Would this playlist work?

[firepoint525]

Brantley Gilbert – Country Must Be Country Wide

Please, no more songs about the format itself! :

Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy Breaky Heart

I would put that one (along with "Swingin'" and "Redneck Woman") on a permanent ban list, never to be played again! All three of them got way too much airplay back in their respective heydays!

 

[firepoint525]

too old and more than anything, Unfamiliar. Most people wouldn't remember, the Pam Tillis, The Little Texas or Sammy Kershaw songs in this list. Keep in mind that the music you have here is for an older demo. Do you want 60 plus? I don't know many people that age buying new houses and making payments for 30 years! Most want the 35 plus or even younger today. Also, Brooks and Dunn,Boot Scootin Boogie came out in 1990, A 44 year old female in 1990 is 67 today. Today is about Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean and Eric Church.

Time flies. "Boot Scootin' Boogie" came out in 1992, not 1990.

 

[radioman1969]

too old and more than anything, Unfamiliar. Most people wouldn't remember, the Pam Tillis, The Little Texas or Sammy Kershaw songs in this list. Keep in mind that the music you have here is for an older demo. Do you want 60 plus? I don't know many people that age buying new houses and making payments for 30 years! Most want the 35 plus or even younger today. Also, Brooks and Dunn,Boot Scootin Boogie came out in 1990, A 44 year old female in 1990 is 67 today. Today is about Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean and Eric Church.

Time flies. "Boot Scootin' Boogie" came out in 1992, not 1990.

Ok they are 65 not 67, not many 65 plus buys i see come in a daily basis

 

[firepoint525]

too old and more than anything, Unfamiliar. Most people wouldn't remember, the Pam Tillis, The Little Texas or Sammy Kershaw songs in this list. Keep in mind that the music you have here is for an older demo. Do you want 60 plus? I don't know many people that age buying new houses and making payments for 30 years! Most want the 35 plus or even younger today. Also, Brooks and Dunn,Boot Scootin Boogie came out in 1990, A 44 year old female in 1990 is 67 today. Today is about Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean and Eric Church.

Time flies. "Boot Scootin' Boogie" came out in 1992, not 1990.

Ok they are 65 not 67, not many 65 plus buys i see come in a daily basis

Who are you programming to? Taylor Swift fans? And why are you starting out with an example of a 44-year-old woman in 1992? I can't help but think that even in '92, 44-year-old women probably would not have had much use for "Boot Scootin' Boogie" (unless they were already line dancers). But someone in their late teens in '92 would just now be approaching 40.

 

[scott salvatori]

My thoughts,

too old and more than anything, Unfamiliar. Most people wouldn't remember, the Pam Tillis, The Little Texas or Sammy Kershaw songs in this list. Keep in mind that the music you have here is for an older demo. Do you want 60 plus? I don't know many people that age buying new houses and making payments for 30 years! Most want the 35 plus or even younger today. Also, Brooks and Dunn,Boot Scootin Boogie came out in 1990, A 44 year old female in 1990 is 67 today. Today is about Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean and Eric Church.

typical standard operating procedure, and indocrination from the playbook of those who program major market hit creator radio for the young tweenys. force feed the young tweeny market with the fresh new happy love cotton candy pop dispensed by the record companies, like some constant nashville infommercial. these are the listeners who are less knowledgable and more gullible and complacent of heavy rotations and new music force feedings. yep, then that insta hit is created, and the $ales are made, er downloaded, only to be quickly forgotten when the next pretty boy/girl is manufactured for the musically immature market .

the more established 40+ year old country listeners are more set in their listening ways, and less exceptable of cheap countrypolitan pop, and probably not as big a factor for the selling of and creation of a new country hit. remember a few decades ago when the country listening market was a more mature, music educated country lifestyle crowd. congrats, to the radio and record people who cheapened the product with trendy pop production, which catered to the young demo. which in turn left the rest of us 40 to 60 year old listeners, and our veteran artists new recordings on the blacklist. ironically, we are the demographic at the peak of our earnings, unlike those hand held computer device downloader pimple face teens.

 

[TheBigA]

remember a few decades ago when the country listening market was a more mature, music educated country lifestyle crowd.

Huh? More educated? Really? Have you read the lyrics to songs like Country Bumpkin from the 70s?

The fact is the country listening audience is older now than it was 20 years ago. And it's now more affluent and educated. Don't make crap up to prove your point. There are people here who know the facts and will call you out.

 

[scott salvatori]

we all can name stupid, and stupid lyric songs from every year. point is, you talk to a country fan in the 60's, 70's and 80's, and the general knowledge was a lot more keen on the music and the artists, and the history because they was an older country lifestyle demographic of listeners at the time. a lot of country music was a mixed bag of more mature subject matters, and not just about loud drums and pop production and screaming about how everything is a party. i aint talking educated as in college and IQ testing. educated as in country music, and country lifestyle. yep, todays young countrypolitan demographic is more affluent, and school/media indoctrinated, er educated.

 

[TheBigA]

we all can name stupid, and stupid lyric songs from every year. point is, you talk to a country fan in the 60's, 70's and 80's, and the general knowledge was a lot more keen on the music and the artists, and the history because they was an older country lifestyle demographic of listeners at the time.

But that's not true. The biggest hits from each of those decades were stupid catchy poppy songs. The word "countrypolitan" that you use came from the 60s, and describes the music style that was used to attract younger listeners. And it worked. You can talk to country fans from the 60s today because they were in their teens and 20s back then. Had they been older, they'd be dead now.

 

[scott salvatori]

sure there was country fans from the 60's in their teens and twenties. they were usually more rural country lifestyle folk, and their dads, and granddads listened to the same music, who are no longer with us. we reckon most of the city and urban hipsters were crankin' new rock from stones, and beatles.

 

[TheBigA]

What you're saying is typical old guy stuff: The music today is not as good as when I was young, and young people today are not as smart as I was then. Your grandparents said the same thing about you. That doesn't make any of it true.

 

[scott salvatori]

big A- that seems to be a fair statement generally speaking, that we all can relate to. the issue is what is being released to radio via the gatekeepers. its easier to please your kids with ice cream and cookies for dinner, than beef stew with fresh vegtables. yet, try serving ice cream and cookies to your adult friends. same thing with music on todays radio. point is, its easier to serve up a 3 minute popified country tune with a repeating chorus line about "yo its party time dude", than a 4 minute country lifestyle twanger about gettin' up at 4 AM to earn a livin drivin a forklift to support your family.

there is still good country music being put out. most of it has zero chance at being heard on radio. example: dale watson "still carryin' on this way" from a couple years ago. would have been a number one song if released in the 70's, since its geared towards the late 40's male. but, not part of todays younger engineered countrypolitan demographic, and the radio bouncers who keep the old boys out.

 

[radioman1969]

too old and more than anything, Unfamiliar. Most people wouldn't remember, the Pam Tillis, The Little Texas or Sammy Kershaw songs in this list. Keep in mind that the music you have here is for an older demo. Do you want 60 plus? I don't know many people that age buying new houses and making payments for 30 years! Most want the 35 plus or even younger today. Also, Brooks and Dunn,Boot Scootin Boogie came out in 1990, A 44 year old female in 1990 is 67 today. Today is about Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean and Eric Church.

Time flies. "Boot Scootin' Boogie" came out in 1992, not 1990.

Ok they are 65 not 67, not many 65 plus buys i see come in a daily basis

Who are you programming to? Taylor Swift fans? And why are you starting out with an example of a 44-year-old woman in 1992? I can't help but think that even in '92, 44-year-old women probably would not have had much use for "Boot Scootin' Boogie" (unless they were already line dancers). But someone in their late teens in '92 would just now be approaching 40.

In 92 we we were not targeting Teens we were going after 44 year o lds!

 

[Whiplash]

radioman1969, completely disagree with your previous post, a few pages back. We'll see. The response to my stations/network has been terrific. There are days I can't keep up with the calls and emails. Nashville has also taken notice. You add the word network to a little cluster and for some reason, people got interested.

KPTK is Topeka, KS is a good example of what I'm talking about.

 

[TheBigA]

there is still good country music being put out. most of it has zero chance at being heard on radio. example: dale watson "still carryin' on this way" from a couple years ago. would have been a number one song if released in the 70's, since its geared towards the late 40's male. but, not part of todays younger engineered countrypolitan demographic, and the radio bouncers who keep the old boys out.

Repeating the same lies won't make it fact. You keep using a 50 year old word (countrypolitan) to describe current music, ignoring the fact that you're basically saying they're doing the same thing now that they did 50 years ago. There are lots of big hit songs on the radio now that appeal to older listeners. Two examples are "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert and "Home" by Dierks Bentley. These are serious Grammy-nominated songs that appeal to older listeners, and both are #1 hits. And as I've said, the median age for country radio right now is mid-40s. In fact, many of the artists, like Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, and Rascal Flatts. are in their 40s. The members of Little Big Town are in their 40s, and they have the #1 song in the country this week. George Strait is 60 and Toby Keith is 52, and both are in the Top 20 right now.

Bottom line is you can't generalize about today's country music, other than to say you don't like it.

 

[firepoint525]

too old and more than anything, Unfamiliar. Most people wouldn't remember, the Pam Tillis, The Little Texas or Sammy Kershaw songs in this list. Keep in mind that the music you have here is for an older demo. Do you want 60 plus? I don't know many people that age buying new houses and making payments for 30 years! Most want the 35 plus or even younger today. Also, Brooks and Dunn,Boot Scootin Boogie came out in 1990, A 44 year old female in 1990 is 67 today. Today is about Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean and Eric Church.

Time flies. "Boot Scootin' Boogie" came out in 1992, not 1990.

Ok they are 65 not 67, not many 65 plus buys i see come in a daily basis

Who are you programming to? Taylor Swift fans? And why are you starting out with an example of a 44-year-old woman in 1992? I can't help but think that even in '92, 44-year-old women probably would not have had much use for "Boot Scootin' Boogie" (unless they were already line dancers). But someone in their late teens in '92 would just now be approaching 40.

In 92 we we were not targeting Teens we were going after 44 year o lds!

Well, that was your mistake, not ours. :

 

[vchimpanzee]

even Rascal Flatts have earned a spot carefully into a Country Legends format.

'N Sync will NEVER be in a country legends format.

 

[vchimpanzee]

The old people will with through Jason Luke and Carrie to hear Waylon and Willie.

No I won't.

The only Carrie I want to hear is Loretta Lynn.

 

[bigrobmjca]

Get rid of Brantley Gilbert, he isn't country. But then again, I'm not your average 25 year old. Replace that with 16th Avenue by Lacy J. Dalton. I mean, the lite rock 70s'-90s' format works today, why wouldn't country from that era work?

 

[TheBigA]

I mean, the lite rock 70s'-90s' format works today, why wouldn't country from that era work?

Works for who? Older men? That's not who the country radio stations are trying to attract.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I mean, the lite rock 70s'-90s' format works today, why wouldn't country from that era work?

Works for who? Older men? That's not who the country radio stations are trying to attract.

They should be. Older men are who I think of when I think of country music.