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Post by Mega248 on Nov 10, 2005 14:59:14 GMT -4
There are already seven Christmas songs in today's Mediabase jump! section.
It seems like every year, stations play Christmas music earlier and every year, more and more stations jump on the all-Christmas bandwagon. If I remember correctly, less than 40 AC stations (out of about 120) didn't end up going all-Christmas last year. I've said it before and I'll say it again; Christmas music loses its specialness when a station plays it non-stop for 7 weeks.
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Post by czarina on Nov 10, 2005 19:02:09 GMT -4
Exactly-and who started the trend of playing it so soon?!
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Post by jcmf3 on Nov 11, 2005 20:40:17 GMT -4
Those songs (I believe) are from Delilah. If you click on Leaders, many of them show no format leaders.
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Post by radical347 on Nov 15, 2005 3:17:21 GMT -4
There is one day in which stations should have the option of going all Christmas and that is December 25. Nothing wrong with throwing a Christmas song or two in per hour before that, but going all Christmas is just asinine.
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Post by jcmf3 on Nov 15, 2005 8:05:52 GMT -4
There is one day in which stations should have the option of going all Christmas and that is December 25. Nothing wrong with throwing a Christmas song or two in per hour before that, but going all Christmas is just asinine. Ratings-wise, though, going all Christmas is HUGE for AC stations. So, the people are responding to it, and until they don't, the AC stations will do it. |
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Post by mtm4319 on Nov 17, 2005 2:00:09 GMT -4
I was tuning the radio one afternoon a few days ago and heard Christmas music. It was 80 degrees outside.
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Post by slinky on Nov 17, 2005 11:53:49 GMT -4
JCMF3 has it right. As much as I can't stand Christmas music in November, it's been wildly successful for the stations that do it. I'm not sure who started the trend, but over the past few years, it's gotten earlier and earlier, and hasn't backfired yet.
Soft AC WSNI in Philadelphia flipped to all-Christmas a few weeks ago.
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Post by Mega248 on Nov 24, 2005 2:51:19 GMT -4
Both stations here in Bangor are already all-Christmas. Almost every song in the AC top 20 is seeing a major spin loss right now. Only one song remains bulleted ("You're Beautiful"  ), and that will probably be bulletless tomorrow too. #20 is already below 300 spins; at this rate it will have a double digit spin total by mid December. |
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Post by jcmf3 on Nov 26, 2005 17:13:09 GMT -4
Both stations here in Bangor are already all-Christmas. Almost every song in the AC top 20 is seeing a major spin loss right now. Only one song remains bulleted ("You're Beautiful" ), and that will probably be bulletless tomorrow too. #20 is already below 300 spins; at this rate it will have a double digit spin total by mid December. Mediabase just removed the all-Christmas stations from the R&R panel charts (I noticed the massive drop in spins of Christmas Gold songs this morning). Those spin totals at the bottom of the chart will stabilize next week as those all-Christmas stations have been removed. |
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), and that will probably be bulletless tomorrow too.