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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jan 29, 2015 16:18:30 GMT -5
Beer in Mexico was a good song, and it's one I hear now and then.
What I don't get is why "Anything but Mine" seemed to fall completely off the radar after it hit #1. That's by far one of my favorites.
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 29, 2015 16:24:27 GMT -5
Beer in Mexico was a good song, and it's one I hear now and then. What I don't get is why "Anything but Mine" seemed to fall completely off the radar after it hit #1. That's by far one of my favorites. Probably just because of that year. 2005 had a bunch of huge multi-week #1 hits ("Bless The Broken Road", "That's What I Love About Sunday", "Fast Cars And Freedom", "As Good As I Once Was", "Better Life"). I think that it just got lost in shuffle among the Kenny's catalog. Non of his songs are really played too often from that year. "Anything But Mine" "Keg In The Closet" "Who You'd Be Today" "Anything But Mine" is and has always been my favorite of his.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jan 29, 2015 16:46:15 GMT -5
Beer in Mexico was a good song, and it's one I hear now and then. What I don't get is why "Anything but Mine" seemed to fall completely off the radar after it hit #1. That's by far one of my favorites. Probably just because of that year. 2005 had a bunch of huge multi-week #1 hits ("Bless The Broken Road", "That's What I Love About Sunday", "Fast Cars And Freedom", "As Good As I Once Was", "Better Life"). I think that it just got lost in shuffle among the Kenny's catalog. Non of his songs are really played too often from that year. And I never hear those last two anymore, either!
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 29, 2015 16:49:48 GMT -5
Probably just because of that year. 2005 had a bunch of huge multi-week #1 hits ("Bless The Broken Road", "That's What I Love About Sunday", "Fast Cars And Freedom", "As Good As I Once Was", "Better Life"). I think that it just got lost in shuffle among the Kenny's catalog. Non of his songs are really played too often from that year. And I never hear those last two anymore, either! Wow. "As Good As I Once Was" has been sooooooooooooooooo overplayed on WYRK and Y2Kountry. Heck I've heard them play it on The Highway as well.
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Post by justme60 on Jan 29, 2015 21:38:27 GMT -5
I hear BETTER LIFE a lot on WKHX in Atlanta!! Don't hear Toby's song as much as I use to.
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Post by jptexas on Jan 30, 2015 10:04:44 GMT -5
90,000 copies through the week ending 18 January 2015, according to this. That's correct. It sold remarkably low for a #1. Which means it was perfect for radio and not enough to move the needle. It sold 90K and reached the top. SITW has sold over 800K and got to number 2. It looks like radio programmers loved Till Its Gone, but the audience wasn't energized enough to buy it .In SITW's case, the audience was super energized but some programmers weren't having it. Country radio and its labels are bipolar lately.
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Post by Marv on Jan 30, 2015 11:29:28 GMT -5
It's downright amazing that those top three singles of 2005 by Craig, Toby & Keith are rarely heard on WYRK or any other market-leading country powerhouse in NY state (country radio also tops the ratings in Albany, Syracuse and Rochester FWIW) or anywhere else for that matter.
Toby's AGAIOW ranked second all-time in SPSPW (Spins Per Station Per Week) when I introduced that term to this board 9 years ago this month during the record-setting chart run of 'Jesus, Take The Wheel', trailing only 'Live Like You Were Dying', with 'I Go Back' close behind in third place, followed by Carrie's megasmash and 'There Goes My Life' rounding out the top five.
Furthermore, those three megasmashes from 2005 have all been 'power gold' staples since 2008, but some country tunes do much better in some parts of the country than in other parts, so if you fine folks insist that WYRK doesn't play them anymore, then so be it, since I trust & respect your observations and opinions immensely.
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 30, 2015 13:45:02 GMT -5
It's downright amazing that those top three singles of 2005 by Craig, Toby & Keith are rarely heard on WYRK or any other market-leading country powerhouse in NY state (country radio also tops the ratings in Albany, Syracuse and Rochester FWIW) or anywhere else for that matter. Toby's AGAIOW ranked second all-time in SPSPW (Spins Per Station Per Week) when I introduced that term to this board 9 years ago this month during the record-setting chart run of 'Jesus, Take The Wheel', trailing only 'Live Like You Were Dying', with 'I Go Back' close behind in third place, followed by Carrie's megasmash and 'There Goes My Life' rounding out the top five. Furthermore, those three megasmashes from 2005 have all been 'power gold' staples since 2008, but some country tunes do much better in some parts of the country than in other parts, so if you fine folks insist that WYRK doesn't play them anymore, then so be it, since I trust & respect your observations and opinions immensely. Uh, I said WYRK "overplayed" "As Good As I Once Was". It also still plays "That's What I Love About Sunday" and "Better Life".
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jan 30, 2015 15:29:24 GMT -5
I think we've established Ten Pound Hammer's radio station is just weird because they apparently don't play some of Toby's biggest smashes but he says that they play "Stays in Mexico" all the time.
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Post by Marv on Jan 30, 2015 17:14:14 GMT -5
I missed the word 'overplayed'; sorry 'bout that!
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jan 31, 2015 3:32:43 GMT -5
I think we've established Ten Pound Hammer's radio station is just weird because they apparently don't play some of Toby's biggest smashes but he says that they play "Stays in Mexico" all the time. They play "Should've Been a Cowboy", "Stays in Mexico", and whatever his current single is if he has one. That's it. As I said upthread, I had actually forgotten "Love Me If You Can" and "Made in America" entirely because they were so infrequently played. And again, they didn't seem to play "Stay" by FGL until after it hit #1. But then again, this same station exposed me to the absolutely awesome "Lonely in Tucson" by Chris Chitsey, so…
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 31, 2015 5:21:54 GMT -5
I'm not surprised for the song's low sales. He had another poor-selling #1 in 2012 ("Reality") and George Strait also reached #1 on Mediabase with a song that sold much worse, also in 2012 ("Love's Gonna Make It Alright"). Correct me if I'm wrong, but the latter didn't even reach the top 50 on the iTunes country chart.
Also, Thompson Square reached the top 5 last year with "Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About", another song that sold poorly.
I guess that a song's success on country radio depends on it's quality or by the artist(s).
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Post by onebuffalo on Jan 31, 2015 8:55:07 GMT -5
That's correct. It sold remarkably low for a #1. Which means it was perfect for radio and not enough to move the needle. It sold 90K and reached the top. SITW has sold over 800K and got to number 2. It looks like radio programmers loved Till Its Gone, but the audience wasn't energized enough to buy it .In SITW's case, the audience was super energized but some programmers weren't having it. Country radio and its labels are bipolar lately. I'm not surprised for the song's low sales. He had another poor-selling #1 in 2012 ("Reality") and George Strait also reached #1 on Mediabase with a song that sold much worse, also in 2012 ("Love's Gonna Make It Alright"). Correct me if I'm wrong, but the latter didn't even reach the top 50 on the iTunes country chart. Also, Thompson Square reached the top 5 last year with "Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About", another song that sold poorly. I guess that a song's success on country radio depends on it's quality or by the artist(s). These two posts clearly show that sales and airplay are two different things.
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