FM broadcasting question re: new music

[OvenMaster]

I've noticed something incredibly irritating over the past 10-15 years or so, and I'd love to find a logical explanation. This didn't happen 30, 35 years ago.

Why, when an artist comes out with a brand new CD, do the FM stations that play "today's latest music" start playing the popular tunes from earlier albums, and not the one just released? :gigglemad

For instance: Sarah McLachlan has just released a greatest hits collection. What am I hearing? Not the two new tunes on the compilation. No, I keep hearing "I Will Remember You" or "Angel". Why?

I want to hear the latest release, not one I've already heard hundreds of times. What's wrong with today's program directors??

Just curious,

Tom

 

[luvvinvinyl]

Commercial radio has something wrong with it????

Say it ain't so, Joe, uh, Tom!

Really the only solution to your predicament is to send more time hanging out at public radio and college radio stations. I am very fortunate, here, that I can listen to 7 different non-commercial stations. This, after having grown up with the king of midwest AM radio, the station that literally made the careers of many bands, including such rock luminaries as The Who, none other than The Big Eight, C-K-L-W.

 

[tentoze]

What is r.a.d.i.o.?

 

[ducati_EL34]

Where I live, what you describe does not happen. Instead they play the new stuff, until you are sick of it. Case in point, the Eagles, they have played their latest "milk toast" offerings, ad nauseum...

NPR does not offer any solace for me. Dry sounding radio non personalities, with a little music thrown to break the monotony, are not a substitute for the afore mentioned practice.

There is one commercial free station that plays adult rock and alternative, but even they are not good for all day listening.


Radio is dead...