On a serious note, is Hot 97 always that bad? Playing the same 9 songs for 4 hours?

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

What about radio 1?

BBC?

 

[live it to the limit]

I think it's every radio station. It's like that down south to. You can actually go on the web site and see the play lists

 

[Maschine_Man]

whats sad is they they pretend like they they are (hot 97, Power 106) the pinnacle of Urban radio like they are breaking ground and having everyone on their shyt.
the fact that they play the same thing as EVERY other radio station in the country just proves that they are just a shell of their former selves.

Radio stations that really have any clout and really are as poppin as they pretend to be don't need to FOLLOW, they LEAD.

THey are just fakin shyt talkin about ratings and BS and "we are only playing what ppl want"

 

[flea]

OP's a faggit but i have heard that Atlanta has dope radio stations.

 

[AkaDemiK]

that was the worst radio i've ever heard last night

It was

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

Havent listened to radio in years. With streaming radio, and sirus, music on your iphone, who needs it

 

[GoFlipAPack]

Most radio stations are like that breh. at you just now figuring out that radio is wack. Welcome to 2015

 

[ORDER_66]

What about radio 1?

Never heard of the corporation... tbh... says here they are located in Silver springs Maryland...

 

[ORDER_66]

"Where hip hop lives"


I listened to some of that shyt. Their playlist is basically:

-Post To Be
-BBHMM
-some corny French Montana song I've never heard before
-Wet Dreamz
-Commas
-Earned It
-Trap Queen
-My Way
-Blessings
-a Kid Ink song

look at all that hip hop yall

You can tell they're desperate when their justification for this is ALWAYS about metrics. They're so afraid of listeners changing the dial to Power 105 that they've decided to play the "most popular" 10-12 songs over and over each hour.

Most people already have their favorite songs on their iPhone/Android, they listen to that shyt all the time...why the fukk would they tune into the radio and want to hear those songs 4 times in an hour? Why not branch out, find other shyt. Why not go back to the people and let them decide what you play (within reason...I'm not saying if ten people call up for Canibus at 3PM they should play that, obviously).

It's amazing how contemporary pop and rap radio are. Just as you won't hear an "old" Lady Gaga record on pop radio today, you won't hear a 3-4 yo "old" Jay or even Drake record. The format is cannibalizing its music, making it fast food.

Their corporate paymasters will never allow listener generated content... You can call in and make requests all you want but if it aint on that playlist somewhere it wont get played... I remember calling in to hot97 requesting MOP 4 alarm blaze and the guy was like, yeah, yeah and hung up on me...

 

[Piff Perkins]

Their corporate paymasters will never allow listener generated content... You can call in and make requests all you want but if it aint on that playlist somewhere it wont get played... I remember calling in to hot97 requesting MOP 4 alarm blaze and the guy was like, yeah, yeah and hung up on me...