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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 25, 2020 10:04:05 GMT -5
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 25, 2020 18:12:09 GMT -5
Goes for AAA adds on March 30. :|
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Mar 25, 2020 20:55:28 GMT -5
That Major Lazerguy makes the kind of EDM/Pop that makes me want to implode. You add Mumford without his sons ,and this could be some FolkyEDM maybe even Reggaetóxic travesty I won't be welcmong to Alt.
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Post by 𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤 on Mar 26, 2020 14:33:31 GMT -5
I get annoyed by all the alt gatekeeping here
That said, this title is nightmare fuel
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Post by narp on Mar 26, 2020 14:48:11 GMT -5
I bet this gonna be like those weird collabs from Seeb and Bastille and MØ and Foster the People we got on alt last year. I personally don’t think EDM pop belongs on alt and this collab just sounds like it’ll be a nightmare. This will either do very poorly or very well.
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Post by Leo ✔ on Mar 26, 2020 15:07:29 GMT -5
What?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 26, 2020 18:28:40 GMT -5
I have heard the song. Not as bad as I expected but I don't need this on Alt. Even The Weeknd would've made more sense.
Also, this goes for Alt adds on March 31.
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Post by narp on Mar 26, 2020 19:54:59 GMT -5
This isn’t the fun kind of bad I was hoping it would be, it’s just really boring.
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Post by Troy on Mar 26, 2020 21:52:03 GMT -5
it’s a week too early for April Fool jokes
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Post by Devin on Mar 27, 2020 9:33:45 GMT -5
It's not bad, but this is a pop song through and through.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Mar 28, 2020 4:34:13 GMT -5
LOL! What the hell was all that Peter Pan EDM "Fierceness" at the :058 mark. Anyway this is corny, and it doesn't belong anywhere near one of the three Rock oriented charts
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Post by macattack on Mar 29, 2020 0:18:28 GMT -5
This gets a solid "blargh" out of 10 for me.
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Post by Zach on Mar 29, 2020 0:51:10 GMT -5
This is extremely lame. And this is coming from someone who's sympathetic and forgiving towards everything Major Lazer and everything Mumford.
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Post by Troy on Mar 29, 2020 12:26:10 GMT -5
sorry to disappoint you guys, but alt radio is going to jump all over this, this is what the format has devolved into
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Post by bkeysfan on Mar 29, 2020 19:36:59 GMT -5
Let's face it. Alternative has already died. I'm over it.
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Post by macattack on Mar 29, 2020 21:36:48 GMT -5
Let's face it. Alternative has already died. I'm over it. As long as indie rock in some form remains Alternative isn't dead. It didn't die during grunge, nu-metal, post-grunge, Britpop, HAC cross over, alternative metal, folk, and indie EDM. If there is one thing that can kill indie rock it's pop (especially as indie pop seems to be transitioning into just plain pop), but I hope it won't kill it now.
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Post by Troy on Mar 29, 2020 22:05:20 GMT -5
Let's face it. Alternative has already died. I'm over it. As long as indie rock in some form remains Alternative isn't dead. It didn't die during grunge, nu-metal, post-grunge, Britpop, HAC cross over, alternative metal, folk, and indie EDM. If there is one thing that can kill indie rock it's pop (especially as indie pop seems to be transitioning into just plain pop), but I hope it won't kill it now. Alternative music isn't dead, true...but Alternative radio? well, we can't depend on FM anymore, that's clear
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Post by narp on Mar 29, 2020 22:37:38 GMT -5
ClearChannel owning 90% of all radio stations and making them all play the same 20 classic hits and the top 5 on Billboard certainly doesn’t help. Alternative music isn’t dead, alternative radio is. Radio is probably the main reason rock isn’t a dominant genre anymore.
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Post by macattack on Mar 29, 2020 23:28:53 GMT -5
ClearChannel owning 90% of all radio stations and making them all play the same 20 classic hits and the top 5 on Billboard certainly doesn’t help. Alternative music isn’t dead, alternative radio is. Radio is probably the main reason rock isn’t a dominant genre anymore. iHeartRadio (ClearChannel mark 2) has definitely been a factor, because a song cannot become a hit without getting iHeart's approval. A few stations rebelling against iHeart's preferences can deny a #1 (XTRA, KPNT, WBUZ, WCYY, WEQX, and WWCD snubbing Illenium denied "Good Things Fall Apart" the #1 last year), but no song can go anywhere higher than maybe #15 without iHeart. And iHeart and their insane programming practices have done a lot to drive people away from rock and crown #1 songs that have no business being on Alternative, and thus increasing the perception of Alternative as a pop-based format. Support non-iHeart radio stations. Even Cumulus-owned ones do more to keep the format alive and feature music that isn't pop or the same old crap.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Mar 30, 2020 0:14:31 GMT -5
ClearChannel owning 90% of all radio stations and making them all play the same 20 classic hits and the top 5 on Billboard certainly doesn’t help. Alternative music isn’t dead, alternative radio is. Radio is probably the main reason rock isn’t a dominant genre anymore. iHeartRadio (ClearChannel mark 2) has definitely been a factor, because a song cannot become a hit without getting iHeart's approval. A few stations rebelling against iHeart's preferences can deny a #1 (XTRA, KPNT, WBUZ, WCYY, WEQX, and WWCD snubbing Illenium denied "Good Things Fall Apart" the #1 last year), but no song can go anywhere higher than maybe #15 without iHeart. And iHeart and their insane programming practices have done a lot to drive people away from rock and crown #1 songs that have no business being on Alternative, and thus increasing the perception of Alternative as a pop-based format. Support non-iHeart radio stations. Even Cumulus-owned ones do more to keep the format alive and feature music that isn't pop or the same old crap. Why is that? Who runs iHeartRadio? GOD? 8D
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Post by macattack on Mar 30, 2020 0:46:32 GMT -5
iHeartRadio (ClearChannel mark 2) has definitely been a factor, because a song cannot become a hit without getting iHeart's approval. A few stations rebelling against iHeart's preferences can deny a #1 (XTRA, KPNT, WBUZ, WCYY, WEQX, and WWCD snubbing Illenium denied "Good Things Fall Apart" the #1 last year), but no song can go anywhere higher than maybe #15 without iHeart. And iHeart and their insane programming practices have done a lot to drive people away from rock and crown #1 songs that have no business being on Alternative, and thus increasing the perception of Alternative as a pop-based format. Support non-iHeart radio stations. Even Cumulus-owned ones do more to keep the format alive and feature music that isn't pop or the same old crap. Why is that? Who runs iHeartRadio? GOD? iHeart is really more like the Borg. The corporate office decides what all iHeart radio stations play regardless of format, the PDs having very little choice in the matter, resulting in limited, nationalized playlists for all over one that caters to the local audience. There are extremely rare cases (WLIT in Chicago is granted more leeway than other iHeart ACs for example) but 99% of iHearts are the exact same damn station for each format. The only iHeart Alts permitted any independence at all from corporate orders are Denver's KTCL (which is something of the test station for iHeart), and Pittsburgh's WXDX (due to heritage reasons, though iHeart is doing their best to run it into the ground). The result is that iHeart Alts, because of their high volume of stations who are all playing the exact same songs, have a disproportionate influence on what charts and thus what becomes "hits". Subsequently, iHeart owns Mediabase and Billboard without investing a single cent in either enterprise.
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Post by narp on Mar 30, 2020 7:25:15 GMT -5
It’s sad, isn’t it? I’ve been going through the playlists of some alt stations (105.7 in Atlanta, 94.5 in Houston, 93.3 in Denver) just to compare their playlists and basically they all line up, the exception being Denver which as you said was given more leeway as a testing station. All three love playing classic alternative hits (Atlanta still plays Tell Me Baby by RHCP, Houston still plays Miserable by Lit) but Denver has more recent alt hits like I Feel Like I’m Drowning rather than something from the 90s. All three also give heavy rotation to songs they believe will be hits (Atlanta gives airplay to Trouble in My Mind by Hero the Band as well as Superblood Wolfmoon by Pearl Jam, Houston gives airplay to Flowers on A Grave by Bush). Atlanta is more pop alternative, Houston is more rock alternative, Denver is more indie alternative. IHeart gives us a handy feature where we can see each station’s top songs, so let’s quickly go through the top two of each.
Denver: 1. The Head and the Heart - Honeybee (#36) 2. AWOLNATION - The Best (#3)
Houston: 1. Oliver Tree - Hurt (#4 in 2019) 2. The Glorious Sons - S.O.S. (Sawed off Shotgun) (#24 in 2019)
Atlanta: 1. Meg Myers - Running Up That Hill (#1) 2. Billie Eilish - everything i wanted (#1)
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Mar 31, 2020 0:07:23 GMT -5
Why is that? Who runs iHeartRadio? GOD? iHeart is really more like the Borg. The corporate office decides what all iHeart radio stations play regardless of format, the PDs having very little choice in the matter, resulting in limited, nationalized playlists for all over one that caters to the local audience. There are extremely rare cases (WLIT in Chicago is granted more leeway than other iHeart ACs for example) but 99% of iHearts are the exact same damn station for each format. The only iHeart Alts permitted any independence at all from corporate orders are Denver's KTCL (which is something of the test station for iHeart), and Pittsburgh's WXDX (due to heritage reasons, though iHeart is doing their best to run it into the ground). The result is that iHeart Alts, because of their high volume of stations who are all playing the exact same songs, have a disproportionate influence on what charts and thus what becomes "hits". Subsequently, iHeart owns Mediabase and Billboard without investing a single cent in either enterprise. Well that is just sad. I remember the good old days when actual radio Dee jays would play songs and let the audience decide. This was the way "Just What I Needed" caught on. "The song first appeared in 1977 on Boston radio stations WCOZ and WBCN from the said demo tape, along with its future follow-up single "My Best Friend's Girl".[4] DJ Maxanne Sartori, who was given the tapes of these songs by Ric Ocasek, recalled, "I began playing the demos of 'Just What I Needed' and 'My Best Friend's Girl' in March during my weekday slot, from 2 to 6 p.m. Calls poured in with positive comments."[7] Shortly thereafter, it became one of the stations' most requested songs.[8]" I love this story because this is what music should be about, not some Corporate IHeart Borg entity that might as well be GOD choosing what become hit and what doesn't. this: Subsequently, iHeart owns Mediabase and Billboard without investing a single cent in either enterprise.
is what's wrong with the music industry. oh yeah before I forget. I loath this stupid "Lay Your Head On Me" travesty
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Mar 31, 2020 22:53:30 GMT -5
#1 on Active:
0 1 MAJOR LAZER F/MARCUS MUMFORD Lay Your Head On Me 1665 0 1665 10.457
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Post by narp on Apr 1, 2020 23:27:10 GMT -5
This got 15 Alt adds and 5 AAA adds on its impact day.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Apr 2, 2020 6:16:26 GMT -5
Top 50 on Alternative:
0 48 MAJOR LAZER F/MARCUS MUMFORD Lay Your Head On Me 153 0 153 0.832
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Post by Pollen on Apr 2, 2020 10:57:26 GMT -5
So interesting that lyhom named himself after this song.
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Post by lyhom on Apr 2, 2020 12:23:52 GMT -5
So interesting that lyhom named himself after this song.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Apr 5, 2020 6:15:27 GMT -5
Top 40 on Alternative:
82 40 MAJOR LAZER F/MARCUS MUMFORD Lay Your Head On Me 273 42 231 1.085
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Apr 6, 2020 7:03:13 GMT -5
Top 50 on AAA:
194 48 MAJOR LAZER F/MARCUS MUMFORD Lay Your Head On Me 83 9 74 0.142
(oh no)
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