Artists You Don’t Hear on the Radio Anymore

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I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit recently.

My home station has always been WUSN, Chicago’s 99.5. Listening to radio throughout the 2000s, there was not a single day that would pass without hearing Alan Jackson or big hits from John Michael Montgomery (“Sold [The Grundy County Auction Incident]”), Ty Herndon (“What Mattered Most”), David Lee Murphy (“Dust on the Bottle”), and of course, all of Garth, Reba, and Brooks and Dunn’s most popular songs. George Strait’s 90s-era hits would receive hourly airplay right alongside singles from It Just Comes Natural and Troubadour.

I understand that PDs and trends change over time; my generation’s ‘throwback’ single in “Chattahoochee” is the current generation’s “Somebody Like You,” and the cycle perpetuates. Perhaps I’m merely nostalgic and still clinging to an outdated version of the format I love, but has anyone else noticed a trend of big-name artists disappearing from rotation? It’s starting to feel like Jackson, Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, and others never existed in the first place due to their total lack of visibility on today’s radio.

[superdave3556]

This is something that happens quite regularly on radio. Most radio stations play a certain percentage of currents, a certain percentage recurrents, and some stations play a certain percentage gold.
Most of these recurrent and gold plays come from artists who are still charting with current songs.  They are played as fillers while a current is rising up the chart or after a current has peaked.
When an artist no longer releases new material, or what they do release does not chart, then radio usually stops or slows down on playing their recurrents and gold.  I first started listening to country
radio in the late 1980s. At that time George Jones, Don Williams, Waylon Jennings, The Statler Brothers, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride.... (I could go on and on) were played regularly on radio. By the 
early 2000s you very rarely heard any of them (except on country gold shows).  They were replaced by the late 80s/90s stars (Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, etc.)
Now most of those are replaced by current charting artists.  30 years from now, you will probably never hear Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood, or Keith Urban on country radio.

[kamala 2024 truther]

May 9, 2020 3:11:54 GMT -5 superdave3556 said:

This is something that happens quite regularly on radio. Most radio stations play a certain percentage of currents, a certain percentage recurrents, and some stations play a certain percentage gold.
Most of these recurrent and gold plays come from artists who are still charting with current songs.  They are played as fillers while a current is rising up the chart or after a current has peaked.
When an artist no longer releases new material, or what they do release does not chart, then radio usually stops or slows down on playing their recurrents and gold.  I first started listening to country
radio in the late 1980s. At that time George Jones, Don Williams, Waylon Jennings, The Statler Brothers, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride.... (I could go on and on) were played regularly on radio. By the 
early 2000s you very rarely heard any of them (except on country gold shows).  They were replaced by the late 80s/90s stars (Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, etc.)
Now most of those are replaced by current charting artists.  30 years from now, you will probably never hear Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood, or Keith Urban on country radio.

*sobs uncontrollably in diehard stan*