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Post by Battle601 on Apr 26, 2009 10:21:54 GMT -5
I don't know if it's just me, but it drives me crazy how my radio station tends to give the "new music" tag to certain songs (which after a while is not really new) and keep running along with it for as long as it's being played.
Even a song that's been on the playlist for 20+ weeks still retains the same tag - if it's not a voice tagging the artist and title leading into the song, you have the DJ saying "It's brand new music!"
For example, my station is still spinning two songs (only in evenings/ overnights) that are way beyond old now:
Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
Hinder - Without You
Even worse is when the DJ goes on the air announcing - with excitement to some degree something along the lines like: "That was brand new Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest off their latest album Minutes to Midnight."
And it's not just with songs in current rotation. Even songs that have already gone recurrent are often mistakenly identified as brand new music or the latest...while new songs from the artists in question are in rotation!
Ah...it makes me cringe and sometimes question "Do they even keep up with what's current?" or at least verify facts before going on the air to say something that's completely wrong. Sure, it can be a mistake once a while, but when it happens that often, then that becomes a nuisance.
Then, you have an actual new song that comes along on the playlist yet it does not get promoted with the voiceover tag. What's up with that?!
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Post by EvanJ on Apr 27, 2009 8:27:36 GMT -5
Songs taking time to crossover to CHR-Pop makes this worse. WBLI played "Hey Ya" or "The Way You Move" and called it new when "Roses" had already been released.
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Post by blfdguy1 on Apr 27, 2009 15:32:36 GMT -5
Pulse 87 did that a few days ago. Voiceover "Here's another song that the other stations don't have the balls to play" then play "Love Sex Magic" lol. Granted they play ALOT of songs that other stations don't play but that certainly isn't one of them.
I think it's just a case of someone not paying attention to what they're doing.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Apr 30, 2009 17:30:31 GMT -5
KNGY does that sometimes. Some of the stuff has been getting tons of airplay already and suddenly it's 'new'.
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Post by botoxic on May 3, 2009 1:37:01 GMT -5
^My favorite promos for KNGY say "Here's what's spinnin' on Energy," and then they play clips of 3 songs (most often 2 are new and 1 is in heavy rotation). But sometimes the promos are outdated, and one of the songs has already been removed from the station.  |
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Post by Au$tin on May 7, 2009 21:53:37 GMT -5
LOL I remember in March that some DJ called P!nk's "Sober" new. I also heard someone call Britney Spears' "Circus" new a few months ago too. But nothing compares to hearing the DJ say "New music from Kevin Rudolf coming up after the break." back in February and I was thinking, whoa! Already spinning "Welcome to the World"? Then after the commercials were over, it started playing "Let it Rock". I was like, HUH? This is from like September! It's NOT new in February!
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Post by Battle601 on May 8, 2009 0:24:46 GMT -5
Glad to see it's not only happening on my station! But yeah, that's ridiculous.
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Post by Minor Scratch on May 8, 2009 20:29:56 GMT -5
A lot of regular listeners don't realize that the new music is actually old though. Some listeners love music but don't keep up with it like us here on Pulse do. We are probably a minute percentage of the pop music radio audience that keeps up so intensely.
To keep reminding the listeners that they are getting the "newest" tunes in rotation is just a mental note that this is probably the best station to listen to in town, regardless if the music is new or not.
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Post by Battle601 on May 8, 2009 23:38:35 GMT -5
A lot of regular listeners don't realize that the new music is actually old though. Some listeners love music but don't keep up with it like us here on Pulse do. We are probably a minute percentage of the pop music radio audience that keeps up so intensely. To keep reminding the listeners that they are getting the "newest" tunes in rotation is just a mental note that this is probably the best station to listen to in town, regardless if the music is new or not. I also figure it's more or less a strategy to get ratings, especially by attracting listeners in certain markets where there are variety of stations to choose from. But if they're looking for the "new, latest" music, then the CHR or Hot AC station in their town would be the place to tune in. Same thing can apply to markets that have more than one CHR and/or Hot AC station - in this case, the're competing against each other and are trying to convince the listeners that their station is the place to tune in for "new" music (like what we're seeing in New York and LA). But you're right, not a lot of listeners out there keep up with what's new like we do on this board. |
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Post by Pipa on May 9, 2009 8:50:55 GMT -5
My Hot AC played "Come On Get Higher" and announced it as "Brand new music from Matt Nathanson". It made me cringe.
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Post by Diablo Codyâ„¢ on May 14, 2009 8:01:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I hate it. I remember a few weeks ago my station saying "new Akon" for "Beautiful". I think that's when it lost it;s bullet.
Or also I hate it when they say "that was the latest from..." and that artist has a new single out that they're not playing.
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Post by Battle601 on May 14, 2009 13:12:46 GMT -5
Or also I hate it when they say "that was the latest from..." and that artist has a new single out that they're not playing. Even worse is when they say the same thing while the artist has a new single that they ARE actually playing. My station needs to fix up its "new music" voiceover promos so bad - last week, some of them led into songs that have already gone recurrent (like "Single Ladies") |
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Post by Michael1973 on May 18, 2009 10:03:20 GMT -5
My Hot AC played "Come On Get Higher" and announced it as "Brand new music from Matt Nathanson". It made me cringe. I can top this. Yesterday I heard an AC station play "the very latest from Lifehouse, called Whatever It Takes." |
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Post by Battle601 on May 18, 2009 12:04:19 GMT -5
I find that AC stations can sort of get away with it since many of the "current" songs on their playlists are the ones that charted on CHR and/or Hot AC almost a year ago already.
Given how successful "Whatever It Takes" was on Hot AC last year, that's probably one of, if not the only songs from Lifehouse's last album that crosses over to other genres. Follow-up single "Broken" (while becoming a Top 20 hit on Hot AC) did not have quite the same impact. Unless a significant number of AC stations decide to play "Broken" and eventually increase its spins, then "Whatever It Takes" is basically understood in the AC format as their "very latest". Jocks in the format would probably say the same for Coldplay's "Viva La Vida".
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Post by Rurry on May 18, 2009 14:48:52 GMT -5
My Hot AC played "Come On Get Higher" and announced it as "Brand new music from Matt Nathanson". It made me cringe. Lmao, z100 has the "new music" tag for that song too. To make it even worse, they actually played it for a few weeks and then dropped it a few months ago.. |
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Post by Battle601 on May 19, 2009 13:47:22 GMT -5
My Hot AC played "Come On Get Higher" and announced it as "Brand new music from Matt Nathanson". It made me cringe. Lmao, z100 has the "new music" tag for that song too. To make it even worse, they actually played it for a few weeks and then dropped it a few months ago.. Same thing with my station. They'll tend to play a song for 20+ weeks with the "new music" tag stuck on it, and then just drop everything altogether. |
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Post by Michael1973 on Jun 29, 2009 9:00:50 GMT -5
Yesterday, I heard a DJ identify "Gives You Hell" as new music from AAR.
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Post by Diablo Codyâ„¢ on Jun 29, 2009 16:34:46 GMT -5
^Holy crap...
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