Stations That Played Songs At Least 100 Times 4/9

[EvanJ]

For their Number 1 song for the 4/9 chart:
WYOK (Market 93: Mobile): 134 times
WKGS (Market 54: Rochester): 121 spins
WHKF (Market 79: Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle): 117 spins
KELZ (Market 31: San Antonio): 115 spins
WKST (Market 23: Pittsburgh): 111 spins
KCHZ (Market 29: Kansas City): 106 spins
WIOQ (Market 6: Philadelphia): 105 spins
WDKF (Market 58: Dayton): 105 spins
WHYI (Market 12: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood): 102 spins
KZMG (Market 121: Boise): 102 spins
WLKT (Market 102: Lexington-Fayette, KY): 101 spins
WKFS (Market 26: Cincinnati): 100 spins
WFKS (Market 50: Jacksonville): 100 spins
That's 13 stations which is over 10 percent.

On the other hand, these stations have less than 60 spins for their Number 1 song:
WSTW (Market 76: Wilmington, DE): 59 spins
WKRZ (Market 69: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton): 58 spins
WYKS (Market 86: Gainesville-Ocala): 57 spins
WYCR (Market 106: York): 56 spins
WHOT (Market 112: Youngstown): 56 spins
WZYP (Market 118: Huntsville): 54 spins
WXKB (Market 67: Fort Myers-Naples): 53 spins
WAEZ (Market 101: Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol): 51 spins
WERZ (Market 116: Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester, NH): 48 spins
WBBO (Market 52: Monmouth-Ocean): 47 spins
WAEB (Market 70: Allentown-Bethlehem): 46 spins
WHZZ (Market 120: Lansing-East Lansing): 46 spins
That's 12 stations.

[3970]

I find it very interesting that some stations play number one songs more than 100 times and others only about 60 times. Why is that? Do the stations which play number 1 only 60 times air Lovelines at night or do they just have more variety in the music? My local station played Yeah by usher 89 times during the week. Pitiful. MORE VARIETY! THAT'S WHAT MOST LISTENERS WANT AND THEY SAY THEY HAVE IT BUT THEY DON'T!

[Matt4319]

WNHT (Fort Wayne, IN - CHR/Rhythmic) has played three Usher songs a total of 368 times in the past 7 days.

[j]

Matt4319 said:

WNHT (Fort Wayne, IN - CHR/Rhythmic) has played three Usher songs a total of 368 times in the past 7 days.

I saved that page because I just can't believe it.

How is it possible to play Usher 52 times a day? That's at least 2 times every hour!

[tico]

3970 said:

I find it very interesting that some stations play number one songs more than 100 times and others only about 60 times.  Why is that?  Do the stations which play number 1 only 60 times air Lovelines at night or do they just have more variety in the music?  My local station played Yeah by usher 89 times during the week.  Pitiful.  MORE VARIETY!  THAT'S WHAT MOST LISTENERS WANT AND THEY SAY THEY HAVE IT BUT THEY DON'T!

The stations that spin their power songs with low turnaround are usually more recurrent- and gold-heavy than stations with 100+ spin totals. Specialty shows don't really make much of a dent. In fact, songs that are heard on a specialty show counts as airplay on affiliate stations.

[EvanJ]

Syndicated airplay could have the opposite effect of what 3970 said.  Playing Carson's Most Requested five times a week with presumably "Yeah!" on most or all of the countdowns could give "Yeah!" five spins in five hours (one hour a day) whereas it may get 2 to 3 spins in a random five hour nonsydicated period on the same stations.