True, I have some top 40 radio experiance, and tons of knowledge of top 40 and rock radio formats, and I shall say this...
My friend Ted, and possibly Chris Taylor and I, are going to be moving into a high ranking market next year when I turn 18, which is 377 days I believe, and that is where I will be "music director" which is the person who writes up the list of songs, and how often their played, (I'm just defining things because I don't know how much you know about radio, but you know...anyone else reading this also).
And so I've been studying formating, and talking often to music directors in this area, and getting experiance and all. And so, we're going to start a top 40/rock station. (Because all LP singles will be played.) But it's going to be a station who doesn't talk BS about all requests and that stuff.
I shall give a few examples of things MESSED UP!
Nelly/Diddy /Murphy Lee "Shake Ya Tail Feather" was on BRL (pop station request countdown) only once at #3. It's the top 5 requests. And yet they killed it for the longest time, and this paste couple weeks it's finally dying off.
Kelis "Milkshake" Kelly Clarkson, "Low" "The Trouble With Love Is" Trapt "Headstrong" Simple Plan "Perfect" Nickelback "Someday" Mya "My Love Is Like Woah!" Beyonce "Me Myself and I" and tons more HAVE NEVER GOTTEN ON THE REQUEST COUNTDOWN. And yes I know this for a fact. I keep track of it, and have the paste countdowns written down in my notebook, because I'm always home at 8 doing homework or research. Yet they still killed those songs!!
Yet LP "NUMB" has been on there nearly a month, #1 5 times, and still hanging around #2. And they play it less than "Shake Ya Tail Feather" this paste week, (according to mediabase).
So it seems un-realistic, but he's getting a loan, and we're starting the station. And he's gonna yell at me for telling about it...
But also, as the music director this is how it will be different than most stations.
The average top 40 station music director writes up the playlist at the begining or end of the week, they write it for the ENTIRE WEEK. Meaning that if suddenly a new song that everyone likes get released mid-week and tons of requests pour in for it becuase MTV is playing the video every two minutes, then they'll just have to keep requesting until the next week. And there is no quarantee that the music director will pick it up anyways.
I will be writing the playlist in intervals of every two days, it would be more work, but the goal is to get more listeners, then you get more advertisers, and you gain more money in the end. And during each DJs air shift, there will be an 45 minute or 1 hour request space in which they can play any song on the playlist, although there would be more details that I can't go into.
But the thing is, if people request it, it will get played, and it will get played to reflect the requests, not played to reflect how many other stations are playing it. That's why it is soooo hard for new artists to get play for their songs, (Example: Josh Kelley.)
Anyways, I'd better stop going off on the details.
I'm gonna get yelled at. But it's gonna be good. Right now he plans on DC, but I wanted to own NY. Who knows maybe we'll hit California.
Thanks for realing my ramble.
