Out of the 30 different “days” of the Challenge, I think this one might be the least interesting. But your reason for picking the song is wide open, at least.
I’ll post Chromeo - Jealous. This song is a couple of years old now, but I still hear it when I pass through the lobby of my building which pipes in the local Top 40 station. Canadian content regulations requiring that a certain percentage of artists played be Canadian are no doubt the reason it’s still in rotation. CanCon is responsible for a lot of mediocre junk being foisted on the public, but this is one song that I think does deserve to be played: a perfect blend of the '80s and the modern pop sound.
If you listen to top 40 stations as I do most of the time if I’m not playing CDs you can go for weeks and weeks hearing the same dozen or so songs, so I’ll just mention *Renegade *by X Ambassadors (and whom I want to call Imaginary Repulican Ambassadors because Imagine Dragons, One Republic and X Ambassadors would seem to be the same band).
I don’t have an answer to this question. When I listen to my local Classical station (WCLV), I probably don’t hear any music repeated within a year. Or five. But if I did, it would probably be something like this, which I couldn’t stand hearing more often.
I’m trying to learn some new music and I can’t turn around without bumping into DNCE’s “Cake by the Ocean.”
It’s a little naughty, a lot cheesy and probably hella fun to dance to. I like it, but if I hear a few more hundred times before summer is over, I think it’ll end up on my Most Overplayed list.
I like it and I hope I don’t get tired of it but I’ve been hearing Jon Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles’ Who Says You Can’t Go Homeeverywhere. The grocery store, pop radio, the bathroom at the mall, etc. Maybe they’re telling me to go home.
One company now owns alllll the radio stations in the greater Denver metro area (well, close to all, anyway), and because they must believe that all Colorado commuters are ex-hippie Californian baby boomers (only partially right lol), every morning and evening commute is ‘graced’ by one of the Steve Miller Band’s 4-5 hits. Each of their many stations play it - except maybe the rap station, but that’s it’s own version of torture - so you can’t change the channel to escape. Steve is EVERYWHERE.
Since I need to only pick one - let’s go with “Fly Like an Eagle”.
Didn’t hear it as much as I used to (thank goodness), but “Who Let the Dogs Out” didn’t exactly wear well after repeated playings.
Also especially Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”.:mad:
If you listen to classic rock, sometimes things come up that surprise you. For example, all of the sudden, this radio station suddenly started playing '80s Steve Winwood. I didn’t think it was weird, but I wondered why. Then I found out that he would be opening for Steely Dan in a concert coming to my hometown. Marketing!
I listen to the radio* a lot, because I’m wayyy too lazy to connect anything to my car stereo or swap out CDs at this point. I sometimes wish I had some direct control over what I’m listening to, but I live in a pretty diverse radio market, and something I haven’t heard already is pretty easy to come by. If I haven’t heard it before, I don’t know whether I hate it yet. I have 24 presets that I surf, and the stereo will scan for the next tunable station with a button press from the steering wheel.
So, this was still hard for me to answer, because, I listen to a lot of music I’ve never heard before on the radio. Heck, I spend about 20% of my radio time not understanding the language. Due to this, there are songs that I’ve loved and were in heavy rotation, but I have paltry ways of identifying them. As a result, this is kind of a punt. I hear this song on my spins around the dial a lot, and more often than not have skipped it - for decades. But it keeps getting played, I skipped past it last night. So someone must like it.
