WBLI has got to have of one of the worst playlists

[foxxden]

Take a look at this crap

Nassau-Suffolk WBLI

2 1 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway 91 97 -6 2.4099
3 2 FINGER ELEVEN One Thing 91 97 -6 2.3279
4 3 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be 90 95 -5 2.3909
1 4 NELLY Over And Over (f/Tim McGraw) 90 99 -9 2.3745
5 5 CIARA Goodies (f/Petey deleted) 70 72 -2 1.8739
10 6 ALICIA KEYS If I Ain't Got You 65 52 13 1.8564
12 7 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath 58 46 12 1.572
9 8 GREEN DAY Boulevard of Broken Dreams 55 52 3 1.3277
13 9 DESTINY'S CHILD Soldier 52 44 8 1.3457
6 10 CIARA 1,2 Step (f/Missy Elliott) 51 62 -11 1.2696

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17 11 AVRIL LAVIGNE Nobody's Home 48 41 7 1.3205
7 12 MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved 48 62 -14 1.3595
8 13 MARIO Let Me Love You 45 56 -11 1.2164
19 14 JOJO Leave (Get Out) 40 37 3 1.0653
11 15 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started 38 47 -9 1.1702
23 16 JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Soul 38 34 4 0.8729
14 17 NINA SKY Move Ya Body 38 44 -6 0.9921
20 18 KEVIN LYTTLE Turn Me On 37 37 0 0.9809
21 19 N.O.R.E. Oye Mi Canto (f/Nina Sky) 35 37 -2 0.8211
22 20 USHER Yeah (f/Ludacris & Lil' Jon) 35 36 -1 0.911

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16 21 RYAN CABRERA True 34 42 -8 0.7809
25 22 MAROON 5 This Love 34 31 3 0.8759
18 23 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me 34 39 -5 1.0211
26 24 NICKELBACK Someday 33 30 3 0.9079
15 25 KELLY CLARKSON Since U Been Gone 29 43 -14 0.6656
24 26 HOOBASTANK The Reason 28 31 -3 0.8096
27 27 RUPEE Tempted To Touch 25 28 -3 0.3947
35 28 DANIEL BEDINGFIELD Gotta Get Through This 23 19 4 0.6296
37 29 CHRISTINA MILIAN Dip It Low 23 19 4 0.6771
42 30 BEYONCE Naughty Girl 22 17 5 0.591

The station is becoming an oldies station with recurrents dominating its playlist. It refuses to let go of some of these songs. I mean Daniel Bedingfielf is almost 3 years old. And they continued their puzzling fascination with beyonce. Plus they are missing some of the top hits right now. They never played any of the singles so far from Gwen's album, which does not make sense when you look at the garbage they put in high rotation.

[Love Plastic Love]

That is by FAR not the worst playlist ever

[bluenote]

looks like the typical pop station playlist if i have ever seen 1.

[foxxden]

don't you think it leans a little more recurrent then most stations do?

[bluenote]

FOXXDEN said:

don't you think it leans a little more recurrent then most stations do?

well yea thats y i dont listen to the radio as much because they always play old songs and alot of good new songs get lost in the shuffle. I'm very used to stations playing the hell out of recurrents so it juts looks normal to me.

[bluenote]

Take a look a my stations play list.
WRVQ

lw TW Artist Title TW lw +/- Reach/
Mill
1 1 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be 72 103 -31 0.2301
3 2 NELLY Over And Over (f/Tim McGraw) 71 100 -29 0.2346
2 3 SEETHER Broken (f/Amy Lee) 68 101 -33 0.2239
4 4 RYAN CABRERA True 48 63 -15 0.1583
6 5 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady 47 59 -12 0.1506
5 6 SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life 45 63 -18 0.1467
9 7 JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Soul 41 50 -9 0.1417
11 8 AVRIL LAVIGNE Nobody's Home 36 46 -10 0.1172
8 9 MARIO Let Me Love You 33 50 -17 0.1074
13 10 MAROON 5 Sunday Morning 32 42 -10 0.1063

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16 11 JOHN MAYER Daughters 32 37 -5 0.1222
15 12 YELLOWCARD Only One 32 40 -8 0.1026
12 13 GREEN DAY Boulevard of Broken Dreams 29 42 -13 0.0955
10 14 KELLY CLARKSON Since U Been Gone 28 46 -18 0.0846
7 15 GWEN STEFANI Rich Girl 27 52 -25 0.083
28 16 EMINEM Just Lose It 26 22 4 0.0903
30 17 NINA SKY Move Ya Body 25 20 5 0.084
32 18 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started 24 19 5 0.0747
29 19 CIARA Goodies (f/Petey deleted) 24 20 4 0.0924
34 20 KEVIN LYTTLE Turn Me On 24 18 6 0.0803

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17 21 TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying 24 37 -13 0.0897
14 22 ASHLEE SIMPSON Lala 24 41 -17 0.0707
41 23 JOJO Leave (Get Out) 23 14 9 0.0765
18 24 DESTINY'S CHILD Soldier 22 34 -12 0.0643
31 25 NITTY Nasty Girl 22 20 2 0.0814
91 26 BEYONCE Crazy In Love 20 4 16 0.0582
53 27 MIS-TEEQ Scandalous 20 11 9 0.0731
40 28 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath 19 15 4 0.0592
19 29 ALICIA KEYS Karma 18 31 -13 0.0505
54 30 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me 18 11 7 0.0516

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[KikiMets]

I think it's not a fair time to judge whether a playlist is too recurrent-heavy, considering that the effects of year-end countdowns are still showing up on the charts.

[Love Plastic Love]

FOXXDEN said:

don't you think it leans a little more recurrent then most stations do?

Yes, but...come on. Look at some stations. I have seen stations with like, 3 50 cent songs over 100 times a week

[singingsparrow]

That's not the worst playlist I've seen.

Back in Denver, before I moved to Portland in June, the Top 30 of their playlist was STILL punching multiple Simple Plan singles at once, Nelly's "Ride Wit You", Linkin Park's "In the End" and even Sugar Ray recurrents.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

[JCMF3]

SingingSparrow said:

That's not the worst playlist I've seen.

Back in Denver, before I moved to Portland in June, the Top 30 of their playlist was STILL punching multiple Simple Plan singles at once, Nelly's "Ride Wit You", Linkin Park's "In the End" and even Sugar Ray recurrents.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

On KFMD? Sugar Ray in the top 10? I find that shocking...

[EvanJ]

WBLI must be one of the five or ten most recent stations on the panel to have been Number 1 in the ratings, along with WNCI Columbus, KHTS San Diego, KKMG Colorado Springs, WLAN Lancaster, and maybe KKDM Des Moines and WAEB Allentown-Bethlehem.

From yes.net, WBLI's ten most recent songs played are "Beautiful Soul," "Dip It Low," "Over And Over,' "Someday," "Get Right," "In Da Club," "Since U Been Gone," "Foolish" (yes.net says it's from the Bad Boy remix album so it could be "Unfoolish" featuring the Notorious B.I.G.), "I Don't Want To Be," and "My Boo."  I admit that they shouldn't play two recurrent or gold songs by an artist less than an hour apart which they did with "How You Remind Me" and "Someday."  "Say My Name" played at 1:04 P.M. is the most recent song I noticed them play from an album released in the 1900s.

I live in Nassau County.

[foxxden]

lol i didnt say it was THE worst playlist I have ever seen, but it is ONE of the worst.


WBLI never use to be this bad I use to listen to it and it was actually pretty good but over the past few months in my opinion it took a turn for the worst.

[irice22]

The worst playlist? I wish WBLI was my pop station!

[EvanJ]

irice22 said:

The worst playlist? I wish WBLI was my pop station!

You can listen online at wbli.com/
They're playing "Breakaway" now.

[Libra]

BlueNote said:

Take a look a my stations play list.
WRVQ

lw TW Artist Title TW lw +/- Reach/
Mill
1 1 GAVIN DEGRAW I Don't Want To Be 72 103 -31 0.2301
3 2 NELLY Over And Over (f/Tim McGraw) 71 100 -29 0.2346
2 3 SEETHER Broken (f/Amy Lee) 68 101 -33 0.2239
4 4 RYAN CABRERA True 48 63 -15 0.1583
6 5 LENNY KRAVITZ Lady 47 59 -12 0.1506
5 6 SIMPLE PLAN Welcome To My Life 45 63 -18 0.1467
9 7 JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Soul 41 50 -9 0.1417
11 8 AVRIL LAVIGNE Nobody's Home 36 46 -10 0.1172
8 9 MARIO Let Me Love You 33 50 -17 0.1074
13 10 MAROON 5 Sunday Morning 32 42 -10 0.1063

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16 11 JOHN MAYER Daughters 32 37 -5 0.1222
15 12 YELLOWCARD Only One 32 40 -8 0.1026
12 13 GREEN DAY Boulevard of Broken Dreams 29 42 -13 0.0955
10 14 KELLY CLARKSON Since U Been Gone 28 46 -18 0.0846
7 15 GWEN STEFANI Rich Girl 27 52 -25 0.083
28 16 EMINEM Just Lose It 26 22 4 0.0903
30 17 NINA SKY Move Ya Body 25 20 5 0.084
32 18 BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started 24 19 5 0.0747
29 19 CIARA Goodies (f/Petey deleted) 24 20 4 0.0924
34 20 KEVIN LYTTLE Turn Me On 24 18 6 0.0803

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17 21 TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying 24 37 -13 0.0897
14 22 ASHLEE SIMPSON Lala 24 41 -17 0.0707
41 23 JOJO Leave (Get Out) 23 14 9 0.0765
18 24 DESTINY'S CHILD Soldier 22 34 -12 0.0643
31 25 NITTY Nasty Girl 22 20 2 0.0814
91 26 BEYONCE Crazy In Love 20 4 16 0.0582
53 27 MIS-TEEQ Scandalous 20 11 9 0.0731
40 28 DESTINY'S CHILD Lose My Breath 19 15 4 0.0592
19 29 ALICIA KEYS Karma 18 31 -13 0.0505
54 30 ASHLEE SIMPSON Pieces Of Me 18 11 7 0.0516

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I could do without Nitty and Simple Plan, but otherwise that one is quite good. (of course, if I had it my way, Simple Plan would be a one-hit wonder with "I'd Do Anything". )

[kellydicted]

I agree that it has too many recurrents, but it's not the worst

[edp828]

Hold UP, let me say I personally agree with FOXXDEN, in fact I curse at the radio nearly everytime I turn on BLI. Its late and I can't give you any specific song names instances but I can tell you that I HATE this station's playlist. Maybe I'm just spoiled (I'm equidistant from the NYC, Hartford and LI markets) but I remember telling someone I was driving yesterday that I am seriously considering send BLI money to update their playlist, or calling my local state representative because it borders on criminal. >:(

[gbaby]

KikiMets said:

I think it's not a fair time to judge whether a playlist is too recurrent-heavy, considering that the effects of year-end countdowns are still showing up on the charts.

[foxxden]

gv0928 said:

i understand what you mean but their playlist has been like this long before the year end countdown

[johnm1120]

Go look at WKGS. 116 spins this week for Pitbull - Culo.

[gbaby]

FOXXDEN said:

i understand what you mean but their playlist has been like this long before the year end countdown

That's a different story, I guess. Show me the playlist in a few weeks, I'll say what I think then. :)

[Houster]

Yeah, you'd think those pop stations would play songs by Interpol, Snow Patrol and Coheed and Cambria.

[edp828]

Alright, I had enough stomach for 4 songs on BLI on my way home from school, so consider this a random sample - "Pieces of Me", "If I Ain't Got You" (probably only because it was the horrible cut w/ Usher), "Beautiful Soul" (introduced as "new music"), and, drumroll please, "Sexual Healing".

BLI has garnered a reputation for playing the fluffiest stuff around, even more so then Z100 and my favorite KC101 (WKCI New Haven). I spefically remember when jlo's "I'm Real (Remix)" was big - they cut jarule's part -out entirely so that the back-and-forth chorus had gaping holes in it.

[reception]

edp828 said:

I spefically remember when jlo's "I'm Real (Remix)" was big - they cut jarule's part -out entirely so that the back-and-forth chorus had gaping holes in it.

Whoa, I'm imagining that must sound pretty bad. :o

[Slinky]

Eh, BLI is tight, and slow with new music, but they're still well-balanced, and they've got great on-air presentation. Obviously it works for them, since LI keeps putting them in the top 5. They are not at all one of the worst CHRs out there. All of the NYC area CHRs do a good job I think.

And what's wrong with "Sexual Healing"?

[jimmy74747]

I kept on WBLI all day at work today just to comment.  I like the fact that they play recurrents, but they play them too often.  "Pieces of Me" once or twice a day is fine, but 3 times a day every day is too much.  Same goes with many other songs from 2003 and 2004.

They are playing the new J-Lo like crazy.  Certain songs they jump on before Z-100, others are put aside until they go Top 10. 

As Slinky said, I do like their balance.  Nice mix of pop, rhythmic and Hot AC tunes.

Overall, its a good station.  Better than Z-100, but far from perfect.  I still prefer WKCI or WSPK for a CHR station (although I can't pick either up at work). 

[automyskin89]

it only sucks b-cuz Ashlee Simpson is on it...

[Pipa]

if I had it my way, Simple Plan would be a one-hit wonder with "I'd Do Anything".

If I had it my way, Simple Plan would be a one-hit wonder with "Addicted".

Here's Magic 98.3's chart:

www.radioandrecords.com/Playlists/GetStationPlaylist.asp?Company=1018613&Format=46

[strong4PMB!]

I love WBLI! Nu Kaci & WendelaBLI!