# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 17: a song that you hear often on the radio **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945 "2016-06-21T05:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/1 "2016-06-21T05:24:00Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhmUnk454MA). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/2 "2016-06-21T16:32:33Z")
Goddamn\* Bohemian Rhapsody.\* Enough already! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/3 "2016-06-21T17:43:25Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/4 "2016-06-21T18:38:29Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA), which I couldn’t stand hearing more often. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/5 "2016-06-21T19:23:01Z")
**[“Linger” by The Cranberries](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnDjOE9_Bjo)** This one is actually a pleasant surprise for me in an area that is very heavy in country music stations. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/6 "2016-06-21T19:59:17Z")
I’m trying to learn some new music and I can’t turn around without bumping into DNCE’s “Cake by the Ocean.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vWaRiD5ym74/maxresdefault.jpg "DNCE - Cake By The Ocean") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/7 "2016-06-21T20:37:08Z")
I listen to zero radio, but I do listen to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me on podcast, so BJ Leiderman’s theme is one. [Here it is, somewhat.](https://youtu.be/0MU6K8MBr78?t=21) ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/8 "2016-06-21T21:19:16Z")
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 Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CeX5VEo10c) _everywhere_. The grocery store, pop radio, the bathroom at the mall, etc. Maybe they’re telling me to go home. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/9 "2016-06-21T21:25:49Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/10 "2016-06-21T23:57:15Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/11 "2016-06-22T03:59:42Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/12 "2016-06-22T05:57:16Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I’m trying to learn some new music and I can’t turn around without bumping into DNCE’s “Cake by the Ocean.” > > [http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74) > > 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 was in the car for 3 hours today, never changed the station, and heard this song twice. Also, I heard this one twice: [Lukas Graham - 7 Years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jErJimwom94) I curses them and hates them forever. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/13 "2016-06-22T07:05:28Z")
I think it’s a requirement that all Classic Rock stations have to play “Stairway to Heaven” at least once a day. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/14 "2016-06-22T10:17:31Z")
I thought I answered this - must have hit a wrong button, or put it somewhere it doesn’t belong. I don’t listen to the radio very often, only in the truck and I don’t drive much. However, last few times I had to wait in the truck, this played quite often [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZyezEhRhs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZyezEhRhs) \*Who’s Behind the Door \*- Zebra ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-17-a-song-that-you-hear-often-on-the-radio/757945/15 "2016-06-22T17:08:40Z")
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. Led Zeppelin - [Kashmir](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwotNLyz10) \*Nope, not even satellite. In my brother’s words, “Poor people radio”.