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Post by sabre14 on Feb 23, 2014 23:22:26 GMT -5
Wow, I just noticed that this song went from 37 plays last week at KAJA in San Antonio to 128 spins this week, a bullet of +91 at that one station alone. "Ready Set Roll" (27 spins) vs. "Give Me Back My Hometown" (16 spins) What a great station .....
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 24, 2014 11:42:48 GMT -5
Cole Swindell finishes at #1 at MediaBase with 60.2 million audience impressions while Jason Aldean is at #2 with 60.0. Unbelievable numbers. Just for sabre14: WYRK has Chillin' It at #4 with 37 spins with 485,000 people listening to it.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 24, 2014 15:00:19 GMT -5
Cole Swindell finishes at #1 at MediaBase with 60.2 million audience impressions while Jason Aldean is at #2 with 60.0. Unbelievable numbers. Just for sabre14: WYRK has Chillin' It at #4 with 37 spins with 485,000 people listening to it. One thing I will say I do like about WYRK, is that the top spinned song usually only gets 36 to 40 plays a week, and not a stupid number like 76. That being said, I've had just about all the Chiilin' It" I can handle.
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 24, 2014 17:43:50 GMT -5
Well deserved #1 on Mediabase and Billboard HCS. First week album sales doing better than many of his peers. The front-runner for Best New Artist in the 2014-15 awards season. Eh, I'd be pretty surprised if he is in serious contention. They usually reward pretty good artists. Musgraves, Hayes, Band Perry, ZBB are the last 4. Kip Moore and Brett Eldredge are the good front runners and if they are going to go in this type of direction, I'm sorry to remind everyone, but Florida Georgia Line is still eligible, and they'd be far and away ahead of Swindell. ACMs are a different story with fan voting, so I completely ignore that one though I suppose he could be competitive there. You also got Thomas Rhett probably against him in that one. Would still be tough. FGL is ineligible for new artist as they won both duo and single of the year last year at CMA. If Cole keeps momentum, he could very well be a top contender this year. He's likely to be nominated.
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Post by countryfan4life on Feb 24, 2014 18:13:14 GMT -5
Eh, I'd be pretty surprised if he is in serious contention. They usually reward pretty good artists. Musgraves, Hayes, Band Perry, ZBB are the last 4. Kip Moore and Brett Eldredge are the good front runners and if they are going to go in this type of direction, I'm sorry to remind everyone, but Florida Georgia Line is still eligible, and they'd be far and away ahead of Swindell. ACMs are a different story with fan voting, so I completely ignore that one though I suppose he could be competitive there. You also got Thomas Rhett probably against him in that one. Would still be tough. FGL is ineligible for new artist as they won both duo and single of the year last year at CMA. If Cole keeps momentum, he could very well be a top contender this year. He's likely to be nominated. The ACMs have the same rule and that didn't stop them from nominating Thompson Square for new artist the year after they won top vocal duo, but you are right they should not be eligible. I would be a little shocked if they were. That said I am definitely excited to see who will make the list and who will win, because right now it's shaping up to be a very competitive category. If Brett Eldredge, Tyler Farr, Thomas Rhett, and Kip Moore continue making hits, Cole Swindell has a ton of momentum right now and if he keeps this up he's a lock for at least a nomination. Plus he's currently on one of the hottest tours out there right now. Dan and Shay is also gaining momentum and depending on how Scotty does with See You Tonight and possibly Feeling It he could sneak in there too. Back to "Chillin' It," I am so proud of Cole! Well deserved number 1 and hopefully more will follow!!
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 24, 2014 18:46:16 GMT -5
FGL is ineligible for new artist as they won both duo and single of the year last year at CMA. If Cole keeps momentum, he could very well be a top contender this year. He's likely to be nominated. The ACMs have the same rule and that didn't stop them from nominating Thompson Square for new artist the year after they won top vocal duo, but you are right they should not be eligible. I would be a little shocked if they were. That said I am definitely excited to see who will make the list and who will win, because right now it's shaping up to be a very competitive category. If Brett Eldredge, Tyler Farr, Thomas Rhett, and Kip Moore continue making hits, Cole Swindell has a ton of momentum right now and if he keeps this up he's a lock for at least a nomination. Plus he's currently on one of the hottest tours out there right now. Dan and Shay is also gaining momentum and depending on how Scotty does with See You Tonight and possibly Feeling It he could sneak in there too. Back to "Chillin' It," I am so proud of Cole! Well deserved number 1 and hopefully more will follow!! Yes, plenty of contenders this year. Cole can have a big 2014 and I expect him to score a couple more hits before the year is over
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Post by McCreerian on Feb 24, 2014 20:17:45 GMT -5
On WSOC Charlotte it went from 29 to 68 plays. Just part of the "game." I'm sure it was like this on many stations. I'm happy for Cole that he accomplished his life long dream of having a #1 single. Good for him!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 20:21:55 GMT -5
Good for KAJA.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 24, 2014 20:23:35 GMT -5
^ Doesn't sound like a pretty fun "game" to me if every song sitting at #2 or #3 doubles or even triples its spins for no good reason other than to get them to #1.
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Post by McCreerian on Feb 24, 2014 20:27:50 GMT -5
I look at it as times changes, rules change. Dirty play is just part of business as long as its legal. It won't stop me from enjoying the charts. I find it fascinating actually.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 24, 2014 20:36:41 GMT -5
I look at it as times changes, rules change. Dirty play is just part of business as long as its legal. It won't stop me from enjoying the charts. I find it fascinating actually. How could it be fascinating if it happens to every single song that cracks the top 5? If you do still enjoy the charts, that's fine. But for me personally, I'm having more and more trouble with chart watching as time goes on. "Chillin It" had three strikes against it for why it should have been shut out of #1. It spent too many weeks inside the top 5 without going #1. It slowed down considerably when it got passed by Jason. And it was passed by a hotter song that as of today still has its bullet itself. Luckily it's sales and speed until the top 5 were much better than other recent #1's ("Friday Night"). But that's the only silver lining I could find. Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it easier for me to accept it. I'm happy for Cole himself but that's about it.
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Post by carriekins on Feb 24, 2014 20:39:11 GMT -5
To be clear, I'd shoot my radio if my station was playing ANY song 128 times in one week. That is just way, way, way too much. And I agree with sabre14 - I'm happy for Cole but it's gotten to be a bit ridiculous.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 20:45:10 GMT -5
It seems that if certain songs/artists and their labels benefit from these dirty 'tactics', then some folks don't find that to be a bad thing, especially if it helps one of his/her favorite artists or songs. And to each their own. But to me, it doesn't matter. My favorite song could get Clear Channel-ed or Garth-ed to #1 and I'd be pissed. The business side of things and the corporate grip on country radio has corrupted the charts and I will never be able to shrug it off and be fine with it all simply because 'everybody else is doing it.'
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Post by McCreerian on Feb 24, 2014 21:14:28 GMT -5
Interesting article from Billboard about this #1 issue
HITS HAVE A GEEK SQUAD Want to know how to identify a hit? So-called good ears are still the best asset, but good skills at interpreting data may help, too. A handful of statistical indicators have become increasingly reliable at weeding the hits from the misses as the digital age yields a seemingly infi- nite stream of data. Fewer than 20 radio stations, sales data, social media activity, early adds and responses on the Shazam app are all evidence programmers can use to determine if a particular title is a future hit, according to a “Cracking the Code” panel at Country Radio Seminar. While exceptions exist for every rule, a study of 2013 country hits com- piled by Stone Door Media Lab, MusicMetric and Shazam found that a hand- ful of readings are strong early predictors of future chart success. Among those findings: • Songs that are No. 1 or No. 2 most-added stand a 61% chance of reaching No. 1. • A small number of radio stations — Stone Door Media founder Jeff Green calls them the “Sweet 16” — are great starters that are successful predictors of titles that eventually reach the top 10. Among those stations are WAYZ Hag- erstown, Md.; KIXQ Joplin, Mo.; WPCV Lakeland, Fla.; and WGTY York, Pa. • Tracks that achieve a minimum of 21 sales per spin their first week are likely to reach top levels of the chart. • Songs that achieve 8+ Shazam tags per spin in their first week are likely to reach the top 10.
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Post by Marv on Feb 25, 2014 2:30:30 GMT -5
Country PDs have come to realize in recent years that playing their powers 50-60+ times per week doesn't harm their ratings or TSL (Time Spent Listening), which certainly explains why WQYK/Tampa played 'More Than A Memory' 125 times in a single week back in 2007.
A recent article in the WSJ pointed out that country radio as well as top 40 radio are indeed playing their biggest hits far more frequently so as to defend themselves from losing listeners to entities such as Pandora & Spotify; that explains why 'Wagon Wheel' was played 229,633 times on country radio last year, making it the most-played song of the year on country radio in 2013.
A decade earlier in 2003, the most-played song on country radio was Lonestar's 'My Front Porch Looking In', which received 162,519 spins.
'Blurred Lines' received 749,633 spins last year as the most-played song on radio in the USA last year, while a decade ago, another multi-format smash entitled 'When I'm Gone' by Three Doors Down, received 442,160 spins that year by comparison.
Consequently, what KAJA did in spiking airplay for this tune last week wasn't a surprise, but expect Jason Aldean to finish at #1 this week while 'Chillin' It' plunges like a rock, a trait which has steadily increased at country radio in recent years.
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 26, 2014 11:05:16 GMT -5
Cole Swindell's debut CD has sold 63,000 copies to land at #2 on the country albums chart.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 3:02:52 GMT -5
#1 on Hot Country Songs, #1 on Mediabase, but a #2 in my book, as that was its Billboard Country Airplay peak. That's the only chart I count--yes, I'm stubborn I know. Oh well.
Impressive 11.6 million drop this past week. Been a while since we've seen a song lose that much in one week.
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