Sean’s Top 100 Songs of 2022
In 2022, there was more than enough music that caught my attention to power Big Hits Energy, my playlist of...
Read moreSean Ross is a radio business researcher, programming consultant, conference speaker, and a veteran of radio trade journalism at Billboard, Radio & Records, M Street Journal, and others. For more than a decade, his weekly writings have been collected in the Ross On Radio newsletter; subscribe for free here. https://tinyurl.com/mhcnx4u
In 2022, there was more than enough music that caught my attention to power Big Hits Energy, my playlist of...
Read moreWorking in radio music research, I noticed something interesting about “Sometimes When We Touch” years ago. Besides being surprisingly enduring...
Read moreEvery week, fans of American Top 40 gather to live tweet (#AT40) that week’s rerun on SiriusXM’s ‘70s on 7....
Read moreWhen I left Washington, D.C., for Southern California on Memorial Day, 1983, Top 40 was coalescing into a mighty, fighting...
Read moreThrough the 2022 Christmas season, we’ve listened to a wide variety of holiday radio. We’ve profiled the mainstream AC version...
Read moreSome headlines from the last few months. Did you see them all? “Is the Music Industry’s Love Affair With TikTok...
Read moreI didn’t like “Livin’ on a Prayer” in 1986. I didn’t like “Wanted Dead or Alive” in 1987, recognizing it...
Read moreIn the early days of my Christmas radio listening, I thought for just a moment that I might be hearing...
Read moreOften, it’s not the pioneer of a new format that prompts the building boom, but the second station to have...
Read moreI guess Tom Hanks and I can be friends. He’s allegedly one of the nice guys of show business and...
Read moreA few months ago, I finally brought the Lost Factor series, my calculation of which songs had taken the biggest...
Read moreIn 1992, the launch of WNNX (99X) Atlanta was one of several format changes that helped touch off radio’s “New...
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