#pop radio

[gnirewolf]

this kinda goes hand-in-hand with another post I just saw, but re:weird social censorship nowadays, there's a popular song rn by Jack Harlow called Lovin' On Me. it played on the radio like a bunch when I went back home, and the radio edit was so weird, like here's the first lyrics in the chorus:

and the radio had it censored so it was like:

I'm vanilla, baby (I don't like no ... and you can't tie me down) I'll ... but I ain't no ... baby

and it was just weird when I looked up the actual lyrics. I was trying to figure them out from context, and got it way wrong (I thought it might be "I fuck pussy, but I ain't no pussy, baby"). like I guess that line could be perceived as violent, it's a fair read though contextually wrong, but the whips and chains censorship also makes no fucking sense. what ever happened to rihanna S&M playing all the fucking time on pop stations !!

[elceeu2morrow]

ZS: You are alternative, you are rock n roll. It exists in you but also in your shows and your music. Here in America the alternative radio format has gone to such shit. That it’s mostly a goal driven format. Meaning they play a great deal of old music that goes really far back in catalog so when you look at hour by hour breakdown of new songs to old songs, because they’ve destroyed the format as a whole, they have to play fucking Weezer’s Blue Sweater or whatever the fuck for literally the millionth time. So it is perception but also radio here has gone to total shit. But you are alternative. You create fucking music that is, again I don’t want to put anything into boxes, but like when I look at your records, they don’t scream pop. But also in the same breath, pop is not a genre. It’s a collection of different songs from all formats that funnels into pop music. 

LT: I agree with that. I do think sometimes, and maybe it’s the wrong kind of description, but sometimes you’re right in what you said about "popular". But I have to hear those words ‘cause instinctively, it almost just means safe to me. That’s how I interpret it in my head. You’re right in what you say. But instinctively kind of on the surface when I’m thinking about something that is pop, um, even if I’m thinking in a context of a film, if it’s too pop, I don’t mean it’s too popular, I just mean it’s too safe. (ZS: Too vanilla, too cookie cutter.) Yeah exactly. (ZS Asst: Maybe you just have to pick up a guitar and play guitar on stage for people to say oh nah he’s a rock star.) Yeah well honestly, sometimes, this industry kinda is funny like that. It might be all it takes.”

- Alternative radio in America / Pop radio [Zach Sang Show, 9.27.22]

[path-of-my-childhood]

Taylor Swift Continues Scaling Airplay Charts With Three Hits From 'Folklore'

By: Gary Trust for Billboard Date: September 9th 2020

"Cardigan" becomes her 23rd top 10 on Adult Pop Songs. Taylor Swift extends her record for the most top 10s among women in the history of Billboard's Adult Pop Songs radio airplay chart, as "Cardigan," from her new album Folklore, climbs from #11 to #10 on the list dated Sept. 12.

Swift scores her 23rd Adult Pop Songs top 10, furthering her lead over P!nk, the runner-up among women with 17. (The chart began in 1996.) Overall, Swift ranks second only to Maroon 5, which has banked 26 Adult Pop Songs top 10s. The group's latest, "Nobody's Love," ranks a notch above "Cardigan" on this week's chart, rising 10-9.

Most Adult Pop Songs Top 10s: 26, Maroon 5 23, Taylor Swift 17, P!nk 16, Kelly Clarkson & Katy Perry 14, Goo Goo Dolls & Train 13, matchbox twenty 12, John Mayer & Ed Sheeran

"Cardigan" also pushes 14-13 on Adult Contemporary and bullets at No. 20 on Pop Songs (after reaching No. 17).

Meanwhile, Swift scales two other genre airplay charts with fellow tracks from Folklore, which tops the Billboard 200 for a sixth week. On Adult Alternative Songs, "Exile," featuring Bon Iver, reaches the top 20, lifting 21-19. The song is the first entry on the chart for both acts.

Plus, "Betty" rises 42-39 on Country Airplay. The song is Swift's first top 40 Country Airplay hit as a lead artist since "Red," which reached #7, becoming her 18th top 10, in December 2013. Following her segue to pop with her 1989 LP in 2014, Swift charted in the Country Airplay top 40 once between "Red" and "Betty," as featured on Sugarland's "Babe," which hit #17 in September 2018.

"Cardigan" soared in at #1 on the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100 dated Aug. 8. As Folklore launched atop the Billboard 200 the same week, Swift became the first artist ever to debut at #1 on both charts simultaneously.

[mani-moves]

Normani now joins Beyoncé & Rihanna as the ONLY black female lead artists in HISTORY to achieve multiple #1 US Pop Radio hits!

[zaynmalikupdates]

Flames has just been made available to Top 40 Mainstream and Hot AC radio stations - 11/15 x

[tswiftdaily]

[poppibranchlover]

Branch is trying to fix his pop radio that ran out of fuel.

Inspired from a picture by @talesfromweirdland!

[dreaming-0f-oceans]

Looking at this sunset I don’t want to forget The sky that looks perfect And the clouds that fill it.