Are there Album Cuts that got Radio Play even though they weren't singles?

[WIA20XX]

I used to think Stick Em Up by Luda was one, but then I realized it was just a club hit (In Texas), not a radio hit.

I wanna say Hail Mary got radio love when the album dropped, but I'm pretty sure it got released as a single eventually.

 

[Deltron]

Ambitionz az a Ridah.

Bay radio played the fukk outta that. I thought it was a single, but it was never released as a single.

also I think Freaks of the Industry wasn't a single..but Bay radio played that heavy too.

I used to think Stick Em Up by Luda was one, but then I realized it was just a club hit (In Texas), not a radio hit.

I wanna say Hail Mary got radio love when the album dropped, but I'm pretty sure it got released as a single eventually.

hail mary was always a single

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Biggie - Unbelievable
Jay & Em - Renegade
Kim & Jay - Big Momma Thang
50 - If I Can’t
Cam & X - Pull It
Jay - Jigga My nikka

Also we have to make the distinction whether the mix shows apply or just regular day time rotation

 

[NYtymes]

Almost The whole get rich or die trying album was on the radio

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Was Many men supposed to be a single? Fif is basically boasting about the get back and failed hit on him

 

[PHamm]

Xxxplosive

 

[WIA20XX]

Biggie - Unbelievable
Jay & Em - Renegade
Kim & Jay - Big Momma Thang
50 - If I Can’t
Cam & X - Pull It
Jay - Jigga My nikka

Also we have to make the distinction whether the mix shows apply or just regular day time rotation

Unbelievable was the b-side to Juicy.

And regular day time rotation is what I mean.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Unbelievable was the b-side to Juicy.

And regular day time rotation is what I mean.

Oh ok…I’m my mind the old version of a single was a song that they shot a video for

 

[Juliano Soprano]

Kendrick and Jay Rock Money Trees should’ve been a single

 

[Deltron]

Xxxplosive

i loved how bay radio skipped kurupt's verse entirely

 

[satam55]

I used to think Stick Em Up by Luda was one, but then I realized it was just a club hit (In Texas), not a radio hit.

I wanna say Hail Mary got radio love when the album dropped, but I'm pretty sure it got released as a single eventually.

Yeah, there's plenty. You're gonna have to look up an artist's Billboard Chart History on billboard.com (Look specifically through the various Billboard radio airplay charts instead of the Billboard Hot 100) & you gotta cross refrence with discogs.com and/or the wikipedia pages of the album the song is on to make sure it wasn't a single.

3 examples of album cuts that got regularly radio play off the top of my head:

 

[WIA20XX]

Yeah, there's plenty. You're gonna have to look up an artist's Billboard Chart History on billboard.com (Look specifically through the various Billboard radio airplay charts instead of the Billboard Hot 100) & you gotta cross refrence with discogs.com and/or the wikipedia pages of the album the song is on to make sure it wasn't a single.

3 examples of album cuts that got regularly radio play off the top of my head:

The Drake song is interesting to me, considering that Radio Play is even more corporate now than it's ever been.

 

[Cladyclad]

PSA

 

[satam55]

Yeah, there's plenty. You're gonna have to look up an artist's Billboard Chart History on billboard.com (Look specifically through the various Billboard radio airplay charts instead of the Billboard Hot 100) & you gotta cross refrence with discogs.com and/or the wikipedia pages of the album the song is on to make sure it wasn't a single.

3 examples of album cuts that got regularly radio play off the top of my head:

The Drake song is interesting to me, considering that Radio Play is even more corporate now than it's ever been.

IMO the only reason "Fair Trade" wasn't pushed as an official single is becuz of the Travis Scott-Astroworld controversy.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

not on major radio in my area, but on college radio yes. Collge radio used to play the songs from albums we all liked, that werne't singles. I remember in 1990 when BBD's album was hot and Poison was tearing up the radio. I called Kiss 102 and asked them to play "I thought it was me" cuz I didn't have the tape. I still remember what the DJ told me. He said, "we don't play stuff like that here.." And I think he meant because it wasn't a single. Even back then most radio stations were restricted to the playlist to choose from. The crazy part is that later on in the year, it became a single. So I can't speak for the area yall live in, but around here, it was only college radio where we heard the B-sides and new things that we hadn't heard before.