Country Music Stations
Country Music is only really a minority genre in the UK there is no doubt, but it is popular enough for the big radio groups to cater for it to some extent. Here we see Global’s “Smooth” brand offshoot “Smooth Country” firmly at the ‘pop’ end of country music spectrum, plus two stations for Bauer.. Downtown Country, a local offshoot of the “Downtown” Northern Ireland brand, plus Absolute Radio Country, a UK national branded station which has in fact been in operation since 2019 (previously as Country Hits Radio), focused on modern country music and aimed at 25-44 year olds. One would imagine that both Bauer country stations might be programmed along similar lines, but the different numbers of songs and play profiles would suggest that these are still quite independently programmed, at this stage at least…
Analysis: 25 days, up to 19-03-2023
NUMBER OF PLAYS IDENTIFIED: 7093
Number of DIFFERENT Songs Played: 933
Variety factor for this station is : 13.1%
50% OF PLAYS is 191 Songs (20.4% of the total)
A THIRD OF PLAYS represents:
The 83 MOST played songs (8.8% of the total)
or 611 LEAST played songs (65.4% of the total)
Most played airs on average every: 7h 24m
10th most played song airs every: 8h 41m
83rd most played song airs every: 2d 2h
191st most played song airs every: 2d 12h
No. of songs with 5 or less plays: 404 (43.3%)
Lowest Number of NEW SONGS on any day:
2 after 21 DAYS
Different songs played in 1 month: 989
..in 3 months: 1473, in 6 months: 1916
..in 9 months: 2177, in 12 months: 2394
Top 10 Most Played:
1 [81 plays] Cody Johnson – Human
2= [75 plays] each for…
+ Bailey Zimmerman – Rock & A Hard Place
+ Hailey Whitters – Everything She Ain’t
4= [74 plays] each for…
+ Carly Pearce – What He Didn’t Do
+ Jelly Roll – Need A Favour
+ Zach Bryan – Something In The Orange
7= [72 plays] each for…
+ Kelsea Ballerini – If You Go Down
+ Parker McCollum – Handle On You
9 [71 plays] Corey Kent – Wild As Her
10 [69 plays] Eric Church – Doing Life With Me
Analysis: 23 days, up to 18-03-2023
NUMBER OF PLAYS IDENTIFIED: 8756
Number of DIFFERENT Songs Played: 659
Variety factor for this station is : 7.5%
50% OF PLAYS is 174 Songs (26.4% of the total)
A THIRD OF PLAYS represents:
The 102 MOST played songs (15.4% of the total)
or 401 LEAST played songs (60.8% of the total)
Most played airs on average every: 13h 8m
10th most played song airs every: 14h 55m
102nd most played song airs every: 1d 1h 5m
174th most played song airs every: 1d 5h 3m
No. of songs with 5 or less plays: 139 (21%)
Lowest Number of NEW SONGS on any day:
ZERO after 14 DAYS
Different songs played in 1 month: 668
..in 3 months: 750, in 6 months: 822
..in 9 months: 1150
Top 12 Most Played:
1 [42 plays] Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper – Shallow
2 [40 plays] Tebey/Emerson Drive – Wake Me Up
3= [39 plays] each for…
+ John Michael Montgomery – I Swear
+ Lady A – Need You Now
+ Leann Rimes – How Do I Live
6= [38 plays] each for…
+ Charlie Rich – The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
+ Kane Brown / Katelyn Brown – Thank God
+ Taylor Swift – Teardrops On My Guitar
9= [37 plays] each for…
+ Faith Hill – There You`ll Be
+ Miley Cyrus – The Climb
+ Shania Twain – You`re Still The One
+ Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
Analysis: 34 days, up to 18-03-2023
NUMBER OF PLAYS IDENTIFIED: 9668
Number of DIFFERENT Songs Played: 1789
Variety factor for this station is : 18.5%
50% OF PLAYS is 317 Songs (17.7% of the total)
A THIRD OF PLAYS represents:
The 93 MOST played songs (5.1% of the total)
or 1192 LEAST played songs (66.6% of the total)
Most played airs on average every: 6h 5m
10th most played song airs every: 7h 25m
93rd most played song airs every: 3d 18h 40m
317th most played song airs every: 5d 16h
No. of songs with 5 or less plays: 1262 (70.5%)
Lowest Number of NEW SONGS on any day:
4 after 31 DAYS
Different songs played in 1 month: 1766
..in 3 months: 2726, in 6 months: 3149
..in 9 months: 3604, in 12 months: 3853
Top 10 Most Played:
1 [134 plays] Dierks Bentley – Gold
2 [133 plays] Carly Pearce – What He Didn’t Do
3 [132 plays] Morgan Wallen – Thought You Should Know
4 [131 plays] Brett Young – You Didn’t
5 [130 plays] Luke Combs – Going Going Gone
6 [124 plays] Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown – Thank God
7 [122 plays] Jason Aldean – That’s What Tequila Does
8 [121 plays] Bailey Zimmerman – Rock And A Hard Place
9 [118 plays] Parker McCollum – Handle On You
10 [110 plays] Corey Kent – Wild As Her
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