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MDNA: 53 Is The New 42
Time for another ROR “instant request.”TargetSpot/Ronning Lipset Radio co-founder Andy Lipset writes, "Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl and then subsequently hearing her new single on [WHTZ] Z100 and WKTU [New York] this weekend had me thinking. My own research (kids, wife, neighbors, co-workers, social networks, etc.) all show that “Give Me…
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Pulling A Career Out Of The Ether
About a week ago, a colleague and I decided to watch the much-derided Lana Del Rey performance that we had missed on “Saturday Night Live.” By then, we weren’t sure what to expect. Was she going to stagger around drunk on stage?
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Holiday 2011 PPM: CHR and Rhythmic National Recaps
CHR shares were particularly vulnerable during the Holiday book. Despite losing a full share, WPRO Providence maintains the format’s highest share for the 11th consecutive survey. Read More
Ross On Records: Hip-Hop Racks Up The Hits
For several years, one of the key indicators that Hip-Hop was no longer the only music that mattered to any self-respecting 17-year-old was that it was no longer selling without Top 40 airplay—and not so much with it, either. That represented a sea-change for Hip-Hop, and R&B before it, which had been able to unleash one stealth hit after another s…
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Songs That Made A Difference In 2011
The story of 2011’s breakthrough records may not be those that moved radio forward, but those that slowed it down. Programmer-turned-Episcopalian minister Josh Hosler clocked the tempo of Top 40 last year and found that, depending on how you looked at it, 2011 might be the most relentlessly uptempo year ever.
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2011’s Most Influential Songs From a Listener’s Perspective
Editor’s note: Ross On Radio reader Tom Smith responded to a call in last year’s final column for feedback on influential songs of 2011. Instead of a few titles, I got the sort of comprehensive and thought-provoking essay that deserved to be read on its own.—Sean Ross“We Found Love,” Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – By now it is pretty obvious tha…
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Ross On Radio: The Local Hit Lives
One of my best radio moments of the last few weeks involved Hip-Hop/R&B KMEL San Francisco and its top 6 at 6 p.m. countdown.
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CBS Radio flips West Palm's active rock "Buzz" WPBZ to Adult CHR "Now 103.1"
The switch came without warning at 3pm Florida time today (12/5), with CBS now offering the "Buzz" format on the HD-2 channel of WPBZ, and online. Market manager Ben Hill says "This [new] station is all about the hits, and favorite artists.
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With Lyrical Edits, The Logic Is Obscured
Three months ago, a reporter for all-News KYW Philadelphia called with an interesting question: why was there such inconsistency in the way that radio stations edited current hits? My best guess at the time was that as AC and Hot AC stations started to take more of their product from Mainstream CHR, there were more hits with potential lyric issues …
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The Hardest Working Act In Station Shows: 2011
Who is this fall’s “Hardest Working Act In Station Shows”? Here’s a hint: they come with their own transportation.Every year, we take a look at the roster of acts who are playing radio station holiday shows and other artist events, looking for the artists who are most actively making themselves available for those shows.
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Ross On Records: LMFAO Gets Sexy As Gaga Gets Serious
One of the things I’ve appreciated in watching the growth of LMFAO over the last three years is their ability to make records that are funny and audacious and still sound like well-crafted, well-calculated hit singles. On their first album, only West Coast and Southwest listeners knew what a good singles machine they had become.
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New Coldplay! New Rihanna! New Coldplay AND Rihanna! So Why So Glum About Q4?
In the natural order of things, the fourth quarter in the record business used to mean albums from superstar artists. The first quarter was for new acts.
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Fresh Listen: WXXL (XL106.7) Orlando, Fla.
Ever wished you could sit in on the music meeting at WXXL (XL106.7) Orlando, Fla.? Tune in the station Sunday nights at 6 p.m.
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First Listen: George Wilson's Memory Tunes
Country Oldies, when you can find them on the radio, often come in one of two packages.The bulk of the FM commercial outlets are heavy on ’80s titles and, increasingly, early ’90s songs as those become a little harder to find on mainstream Country stations. The ’70s are represented by a relatively small swath of titles, and the ’60s by only a few s…
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Ross On Records: Another Asterisk For PPM Law
After topping the Billboard Hot 100, Adele’s “Someone Like You” would have been remembered as a No. 1 record, regardless of whether it actually fought its way past Mainstream 40’s “Ballad Blockade” to No.
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First Listen: CKFG (G98.7) Toronto
Okay, it might be a little soon to write about CKFG (G98.7) Toronto’s unique new hybrid of Urban AC and Caribbean music. The recently launched station is still in that on-air signal testing phase that marks new Canadian signals.
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Anatomy Of A Hit: Maroon 5 f/Christina Aguilera, “Moves Like Jagger”
When Maroon 5 landed at Top 40 radio in late 2003 with “Harder To Breathe,” their rhythmic-infused pop made them a better fit for the format than some of the longer-running Modern AC bands who didn’t fit as well between 50 Cent and Linkin Park. In an era without much that pop radio could own, Maroon 5 quickly became a core act over the two year run…
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Ross On Records: Less (Cow)bells, More Whistles
It’s been the topic I tried to avoid writing about.Every few weeks this summer, a programmer or colleague has asked, “When are you going to do something about all the songs with whistling in them?”In recent months, the list of CHR hits with whistling has included Britney Spears’ “I Wanna Go,” Bruno Mars’ “The Lazy Song,” Foster The People’s “Pumped…
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Flashback Listen: Four Legendary AC Stations
If you want to raise eyebrows with how much AC radio has changed, you only have to go back a year or two. So imagine what turning the radio back 30 years looks like.
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Ross On Records: Readers’ Songs That Missed The Eurodance Yodeling Boom
In last week’s “Ross On Records,” KZPT (The Point) Kansas City APD Tony Lorino raised the topics of songs that were released at the wrong time—songs whose failure to become hits reflects more what Top 40 radio was willing to play at the time. Lorino’s candidates were Pink’s “God Is A DJ,” pure pop at a time when Hip-Hop was in its final years…
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