I admit it, I listen to country music on the radio.  (Not all the time: I’m also addicted to News Radio.  Not Talk Radio, just News Radio.)  Regretably the local country music station is owned by ClearChannel.

I wouldn’t be bothered by a mega-media company owning the radio station, if they would just play the hit songs.  But they don’t!  I don’t know why, but they don’t play the top-40 songs.  Now you would think this would be a no-brainer: there are statistics on the top songs, they know what they are, but they don’t play them.  I don’t know why.  Instead, they play the same songs in rotation, over and over, and it’s a very limited selection.

I wouldn’t know that Clear Channel isn’t playing the top hits, except that there’s a syndicated weekly broadcast of the top hit songs, and I regularly hear songs on it that I don’t hear during the week.  Why is that? 

FWIW, I wrote a very polite email to the local music director asking this question but did not receive a response.

Why wouldn’t they play the top songs?  The only things I can think of are 1) that the radio station is owned by a record company that only plays its own artists, or 2) payola is alive and well at the national level, and someone’s getting a lot of money under the table to play for pay.

What do you think?

That’s The Thought for the Day from The Dubmeister.

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