CHR/Pop Panel needs to play VARIETY of music

[johnm1120]

atlantaboy said:

chbigemi said:

They would'nt affect the Hot 100 audience, but the CHR audience would definitely give more songs a chance.

Oh I get it...if they were moved to rhythmic, they still would have equal weight on the Hot 100 Airplay Chart

Yeah, only the CHR/Pop chart would be affected.

[Marv]

I still feel that the CHR/Pop format would be in much better shape if those stations quit playing as much rhythmic music as they do.

The year end charts and countdown shows will still show a higher-than-necessary percentage of titles on both surveys, which frequently means really bad news for the top 40 format.

That's been the format's biggest problem off and on since the early nineties, although 1990 was a superb year for the format, if not quite up to the exceptional years that 1988 and 1985 were for the format.

[shocker]

marv said:

I still feel that the CHR/Pop format would be in much better shape if those stations quit playing as much rhythmic music as they do.

The year end charts and countdown shows will still show a higher-than-necessary percentage of titles on both surveys, which frequently means really bad news for the top 40 format.

That's been the format's biggest problem off and on since the early nineties, although 1990 was a superb year for the format, if not quite up to the exceptional years that 1988 and 1985 were for the format.

1994 was also a good year for CHR. There were plenty of rhythmic songs that became big hits that year, but they were mainstream enough to grab a larger share of the listening audience - titles by All-4-One, Boyz II Men, Babyface, and the like.

You also heard a better variety of tunes on CHR during the mid-'90s. Artists like Sheryl Crow, Mariah Carey, Gin Blossoms, Ace of Base, Hootie and the Blowfish, and even Elton John were gettng plenty of airtime on CHR. Even the rhythmic-CHR stations took time to spin some of the biggest CHR hits that weren't rhythmic or hip-hop in nature.

[atlantaboy]

marv said:

I still feel that the CHR/Pop format would be in much better shape if those stations quit playing as much rhythmic music as they do.

The weird thing about this post-2000 era for CHR is - it's not that most CHRs are playin a disproportionate amount of rhythmic music...it's that 30+ teen-rhythmic CHRs have been ADDED to the CHR panel (that weren't there in the 90s) and it's these stations that are skewing the CHR chart rhythmic...

Back in '92-'93 it was a different story...back then the MAINSTREAM CHRs leaned rhythmic (Boyz II Men, Color Me Badd, SWV, TLC, Whitney from the Bodyguard, etc.)

[atlantaboy]

marv said:

1994 was also a good year for CHR. There were plenty of rhythmic songs that became big hits that year, but they were mainstream enough to grab a larger share of the listening audience - titles by All-4-One, Boyz II Men, Babyface, and the like.

There were fewer CHR stations in 1994 than in any other year since the early 80s...1994 was prob. the worst year for CHR in the recent history of the format

I don't know if you just meant that you liked the songs that were bein played in '94, but it def. wasn't a good year for CHR

CHR ratings and the number of stations actually didn't pick up again until pop-only dance artists like Real McCoy joined the playlists in late '95 - then there was only one place to hear these songs (CHR)...before that many major markets just had ACs, Rhythmic/Urban, and Alternative covering essentially all the CHR hits