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The Softest Songs On AC Radio
A few weeks ago, we sought out the hardest-rocking songs at Mainstream AC, a format whose always-brightening feel and increasing emphasis on the '80s is allowing even Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" and Loverboy's "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" to play on some stations' all-'80s weekends. The flipside of the format's ongoing modernization process is that once-standard titles have disappeared or been ceded to the Oldies/Greatest Hits format, especially by stations that are down to one '70s an hour or have eliminated '70s music altogether. So we began scouring monitored airplay for "The Softest Songs On AC."
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Radio’s Best & Worst: February 8, 2012
In this week’s dial scan, NBC’s “Smash” gets its own online radio station. The late Don Cornelius gets a tribute from hometown WVAZ (V103) Chicago. Laser hair removal spots are everywhere. Morning-after pills are in vending machines. A convenience store has your back, pal. And only one station dares acknowledge “Groundhog Day” twice. It’s “Radio’s Best & Worst.”
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Fresh Listen: Canada’s Border Blasters
Before Detroit's short-lived Alt-rocker “The Bone” went away, it took an unusual swing at rival CIMX (89X), a Canadian licensed station playing 20% government-mandated Canadian music. In doing so, it was probably the first American broadcaster to even think about Cancon as a competitive disadvantage since the ’70s Top 40 heyday of CKLW. So it seemed like a good time for a Fresh Listen to 89X and Top 40 CFLZ (Z101) Buffalo, N.Y., as well as take a look at the current availability of Cancon.
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MDNA: 53 Is The New 42
With Madonna poised for a sales and airplay come back with “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” a reader asks, “How many other 53-year-olds have gotten airplay on CHR radio the way Madonna’s new single looks to be tracking to get?” The answer is that it has happened before—but not very often. And even some of the artists that we think of as particularly enduring started to hit a brick wall at Top 40 in their early 40s. So clearly 53 is the new 42.
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Madonna’s performance was “most-watched Super Bowl entertainment ever”
Madonna may not have rolled around the Super Bowl XLVI stage in a wedding dress, a la the 1984 MTV Video Awards, but she was still belle of the ball during Sunday’s match between the New York Giants and New England Patriots.
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