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If you look at pop music’s arc, there’s general consensus that things were trending down in 1969. Asked to describe it in terms of his theory of Top 40 cycles, veteran programmer Guy…

The poster is one of my proudest souvenirs from my tenure at WGCI-AM (Dustyradio 1390) Chicago in the mid-‘90s. “The 1995 Edition of the Top 100 Dusties” was compiled from an ongoing…

The top-played song at Mainstream Rock WMMR Philadelphia is the Raconteurs, “Sunday Driver.” With that song having run its course, and having been followed-up with “Help Me…

I have a lot of place memories associated with songs over the years, but I hear the bulk of new songs the same way—sitting at the computer, often after opening an e-mail blast at midnight on…

They’ve been doing it throughout the PPM era, but when Contemporary Christian stations post strong months, or a succession of them, they seem to take the industry by surprise anew. Even the…

It began two months ago with a tweet from Scott Lowe, now heard doing a Classic Alternative show on WNYL (Alt 92.3) New York, but then on-air at CHR WTDY Philadelphia.…

The listening that went to WPLJ New York, which became the new area outlet for the K-Love Christian AC network on May 31, won’t all go to other Hot ACs. Some will end up at CHR "Z100" WHTZ …

When you write about the lack of tempo in pop music as relentlessly as I have over the last few years, you risk people thinking that’s all you care about. I recently recalled the difficulty…

I realize we might differ on this, but I’m interested in hearing anything, especially a radio station, from the man who produced “London Bridge.” The most polarizing of hit records in 2006,…

If “Old Town Road” had first appeared with Billy Ray Cyrus as a lead artist with a singer/rapper as the guest, there probably would have been no issue of its eligibility to appear on the…

Inside the radio panel rooms at Canadian Music Week, Canadian content regulations were at issue. In an opening session, radio observer James Cridland showed a picture of CRTC headquarters…

Typically, I try to come to the Memorial Day preview of the year’s Song of Summer candidates with as definitive a list as possible. I reach out to radio programmers to ask what has…