Aaron Lewis had the #1 country song in 2020 with “Am I the Only One” and it never got a minute of radio play.
Aaron Lewis had the #1 country song in 2020 with “Am I the Only One” and it never got a minute of radio play.
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Exactly and it seems that everyone I know is playing this gem by Blind Joe... never will see a minute of airtime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_sEYlTwi54
Other than talk radio and sports, does anyone listen to radio anymore? It seems your post proves they have no influence.
“Aaron Lewis had the #1 country song in 2020 with “Am I the Only One” and it never got a minute of radio play.”
This is fascinating, to watch the waning influence of radio. (Radio was fascinating when I was growing up - all those 50,000 watt stations keeping a teenage girl up all night - and baking pies at the same time, isn’t that crazy? I later worked at several small market country radio stations - so I could play what I wanted to.) And I don’t remember the last time I turned the radio on for any reason. Just not interesting anymore. Everything programmed from some central location when it used to be local.
The purpose of this rant is to point out that this has been going on for awhile. Remember 13 year old Leann Rimes? Everyone seemed to love her hit Blue. But at the end of the year this happened: Billboard had two end of year charts - a sales chart, and an airplay chart. The sales chart had Blue at #1, and the airplay chart didn’t list it at all. It wasn’t controversial, it was just country. And a lot of stations wouldn’t play it. But it was still the #1 seller.