the definition of a chr/pop format

[3970]

I am totally confused on this one. The station playlists of so called chr/pop stations are sometimes like night and day if you look at them. Some stations will play a mixture of hip hop, alternative rock, and straight pop, and others won't touch straight pop at all. if you look at the top 9 most requested songs lists, one station's list last week featured artists like Ben Jelen, Joey McIntyre, Hanson and Clay Aiken. Only two hip hop songs were mentioned. The other station in that market's most requested list featured mainly hip hop and rap.

So? What is the definition of chr/pop?

[irice22]

My definition would be a station that plays a variety of popular genres. There are some pop stations that need to be Hot AC or Rhythmic. If a song plays a lot of Hot AC stuff, but have "Hey Mama" somewhere on their playlist then they will be considered pop it seems.

[3970]

Did you notice the Pro-FM in Rhode Island has been laying off the hip hop and sticking toa more straight pop? How long has that been going on?

[Marv]

Most of the CHR/Pop stations out there have stopped being mass appeal statstions, as the format was originally designed to be, and the massive ratings plunges, revolving door of PDs going from station to station (KIIS-FM has had at least a half-dozen in the past 7-8 years, with very poor results), and the never-ending losses of HUGE amounts of adult listeners has not stopped at all

They've all overreacted to the rhythmic music explosion in the mid-eighties, and the results have been an outright disaster; that's one reason why there are barely HALF the number of CHR/Pop stations today as there were twenty years ago, when the format was just unstoppable.

Every station which copied KIIS-FM's overreaction to the arrival of KPWR (Power 106) has lost tons of listeners and ratings share, as evidenced by KIIS-FM's SIXTY precent dropoff in format/audience share over the past 18 years.