The Backseat Lovers - “Kilby Girl”

[narp]

Impacting Alt on September 8, 2020.

[BlurryKyle]

Also going for Triple A adds on that date.

[macattack]

This is the new "RADIO.COM Pick of the Week" so expect this to hit the Alternative chart like it was shot out of a cannon. Whether it will stay is another story.

[narp]

I actually kind of like this so I’ll be happy if it hits Billboard. It’s kind of like a mix between Wallows and Conan Gray.

[narp]

Sept 28, 2020 17:17:54 GMT -5 macattack said:

This is the new "RADIO.COM Pick of the Week" so expect this to hit the Alternative chart like it was shot out of a cannon. Whether it will stay is another story.

Yeah, it seems like those weekly picks will become a more substantial thing on the alt chart. The same thing happened with “Is It True” and “Care” in the last two weeks and it’s the cause for their surges in peaks. For them to actually add the song to their regular rotation, you have to text “Up” to this 5 digit number anytime the song plays to show that you like the song. More people have to text “Up” than “Down” for them to put the song in rotation. “Overwhelmed” was another pick of the week a few weeks ago, and that one looks to have had good reception with listeners.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 50 on Alternative:

69 44 BACKSEAT LOVERS Kilby Girl 214 69 145 0.888

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 40 on Alternative:

62 37 BACKSEAT LOVERS Kilby Girl 335 82 253 1.642

[wheatsquares33]

This one's pretty neat, I like it enough

[macattack]

Oct 2, 2020 7:17:37 GMT -5 @bobpatience said:

So how does this work exactly? I get that it is some weekly pick providing an initial push, but is this a new phenomenon or have I just not noticed this before? Or is it due to the new Enterkaplan emporium?

WNYL has been doing this kind of song testing for over a year, but it did not spread to a Entercom-wide level until three weeks ago, when the nationwide push started with Tame Impala's "Is It True". This is only the third song to receive this treatment, with "Care" by beabadoobee being the second. Both songs wound up making the cut.

Anyway, this is an interesting pick for Entercom. I definitely hear the Two Door Cinema Club influence on this one. I love the way it picks up around the 3 minute mark in particular to finish things off with a great instrumental flourish. These boys have some real talent, I hope they get the chance to show it off more. 

[Deleted]

I like this a lot.

[thirddegree50123]

Solid song

[wheatsquares33]

Well this is all the way down to 47 today, and Ashnikko is almost top 40, so I guess this is the first song of the week to fail or whatever? Kind of a shame, I liked this one. But at the same time, I'm kinda surprised it even got this far to begin with.

It's still better than Daisy though (not, if Cry was the Ashnikko song charting I'd be 100% on board, but Daisy is blehhh)

[macattack]

Oct 10, 2020 8:07:00 GMT -5 wheatsquares33 said:

Well this is all the way down to 47 today, and Ashnikko is almost top 40, so I guess this is the first song of the week to fail or whatever? Kind of a shame, I liked this one. But at the same time, I'm kinda surprised it even got this far to begin with.

It's still better than Daisy though (not, if Cry was the Ashnikko song charting I'd be 100% on board, but Daisy is blehhh)

It got 7 adds this week, but those were mostly independent Alts known for chart-watching and they probably thought the song's rise was more organic. However it only had 2 adds before those 7 and 9 adds just aren't enough - look at The Pretty Reckless and Seether hanging around with their 7-9 adds.

[narp]

Hopefully it’ll at least stick around in the bottom half of the chart because that would be a strange chart run. And I don’t see Entercom failing this because “Is It True” and “Care” are way more polarizing songs imo.

[jdmasta289]

Now I see that it's -196 and down to #47. Yikes. Entercom anomaly or legit? I haven't seen a song rise and drop at this level the last 20 years outside of maybe some U2 teaser release. Too bad.

[Daryl the Beryl]

I feel that this one will recover. We'll see.

[macattack]

47 48 BACKSEAT LOVERS Kilby Girl 222 201 21 0.231

As Daryl predicted this is beginning to recover. I think this can go back into the top 40 or even 30.

[BlurryKyle]

Music Video:

[Daryl the Beryl]

Back in the top 40:

41 39 BACKSEAT LOVERS Kilby Girl 299 273 26 0.346

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 30 on Alternative:

36 30 BACKSEAT LOVERS Kilby Girl 325 313 12 0.329

[Daryl the Beryl]

Goes for AAA adds next week according to JBE.

[thirddegree50123]

I still like this

[macattack]

Alt update:

25 25 BACKSEAT LOVERS Kilby Girl 674 631 43 1.287

It's still building but it hasn't broken out on Alt radio yet. "Kilby Girl" is a decent-sized streaming hit (23 million streams on Spotify and counting) and that may be what's keeping it alive.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 20 on Alternative:

24 20 BACKSEAT LOVERS Kilby Girl 734 662 72 1.342

[maine]

This is really solid. Pleasantly surprised to hear something like this do well on Alt.