Madonna added at Hip Hop/R&B outlets?

[Joshua Messex]

That's what our Rhythmic Guru Robert Moore has posted on the Dance Board! He is saying that Billboard Radio Monitor is reporting XHMORE, KPWR, and many other Hip Hop/R&B Outlets as adding the new Madonna track Hung Up.

If indeed this is true, what does this signal? The days of "pure blazing the most Hip Hop" are over? Or is this just a non event that goes over?

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> That's what our Rhythmic Guru Robert Moore has posted on the
> Dance Board! He is saying that Billboard Radio Monitor is
> reporting XHMORE, KPWR, and many other Hip Hop/R&B Outlets
> as adding the new Madonna track Hung Up.
>
> If indeed this is true, what does this signal? The days of
> "pure blazing the most Hip Hop" are over? Or is this just a
> non event that goes over?
>
It means that the corporate mind STILL looking for that MASS APPEAL/CROSSOVER continues to make a station sound off-focus/off-format.  I can think of plenty of songs that are not being rotated anywhere that actually FIT the format.  But corporate radio don't want that.

I get the same shivvers from when N'Sync-Gone got played on Hip Hop radio in 2001.

And .....Gwen Stefani-Hollaback Girl this year.

Seems that every year there HAS to be one song that sticks out like a pink elephant in a herd.

There times when I wished things were back in 90-93, when Urban radio was Urban radio.  CHR stil had your crossover and dance.  Back when some stations called themselves THE PEOPLE's STATION..... or when they were not afraid to call themselves RAP RADIO.

OH NO! Don't call a station "RAP."  That's wayy too much of a "label" these days.

pfft.



Now they wanna put crossover and pop on Urbans.  Blah.

[Radio Spasm]

> It means that the corporate mind STILL looking for that MASS
> APPEAL/CROSSOVER continues to make a station sound
> off-focus/off-format.  I can think of plenty of songs that
> are not being rotated anywhere that actually FIT the format.
>  But corporate radio don't want that.

See, my opinion is that URBAN is the Blazin' Hip Hop & R&B format. Rhythmic is just that... music that is of Rhythm: Hip Hop, R&B, Dance, SOME Pop like Hollaback Girl... Why should Rhythmic AND Urban be blazin' hip hop all day long?

[RobertMoore]

Well it'll be interesting to see if "Hung Up" sticks around at Rhythmic and I hope it does. But then again anything could happen.

BTW WAJZ/Albany has added it.

[DJKraze]

> Well it'll be interesting to see if "Hung Up" sticks around
> at Rhythmic and I hope it does. But then again anything
> could happen.
>
> BTW WAJZ/Albany has added it.
>


Former Pirate, now internet only Jammin 99.5 has NOT added it and will not be adding it.

http://wkdh.freeservers.com

[eGillCVI]

When exactly did the Rhythmic format get swallowed up by Hip-Hop and R&B?  As far as I knew, "rhythmic" just means...uh...rhythmic.  Maybe it's just coming back around finally?

> Well it'll be interesting to see if "Hung Up" sticks around
> at Rhythmic and I hope it does. But then again anything
> could happen.
>
> BTW WAJZ/Albany has added it.
>