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| quote: | Originally posted by PVD_S11DJ
hmm it looks like they were ranked #17 on the latest arbitron list of Miami FM stations.... any station with numbers that low has a limited life... its too bad it wasn't better run - when I was in Miami a few weeks ago, I kept hearing the same 10 songs over and over on it. They were playing Tiesto's Traffic like it was the current #1 or something.
01) WHQT - urban adult contemporary
02) WCMQ - spanish oldies
03) WLYF - adult contemporary
04) WPOW - power 96 - hip hop
05) WEDR - urban soul
06) WXDJ - tropical
07) WMIB - urban soul
08) WAMR - spanish contempporary
09) WHYI - Y100 top 40
10) WMXJ - oldies
11) WLVE - smooth jazz
12) WFLC - adult contemporary
13) WRMA - spanish contemporary
14) WKIS - country
15) WRTO - tropical
16) WBGG - classic rock
17) WPYM - party 93.1 dance |
It's obvious that those pop remixes and freestyle songs dropped party 931's rating, not tracks that define dance today like Tiesto - Traffic. Freestyle is not a kind of music that transcends time, due to the fact that a lot of their hits were shot up straight out of the underground arena without having been properly reproduced or mixed down commercially. It was good in its time, and that's it. Mega 103.5 slumped in ratings as soon as they introduced freestyle into their (70s and 80s disco/synthpop) format. It's like reggaeton (the only reason the latin music industry accepted it was because its independant labels were giving them competition; a lot of reggaeton tracks are poorly [mass]produced by people who obviously have had no commercial production experience)... 10 years from now, it'll be so old and busted, if no one does anything original with it.
As for pop/top40 remixes, they are very dangerous to mess with. Especially if they're worse than the originals. Unfortunately, Party 931 was playing remixes that made you long for their originals far more than these half-assed dance mixes did. Hell, most of their remixes were produced by the actual radio DJs, no wonder a lot of them were shitty and poorly produced. I knew I wasn't alone because the public here in Miami would often talk about how lame those remixes were. I've never heard a conversation about how the remixes in party 931 have totally revolutionized pop music as we know it, or have made them any more appealing than their originals.
What makes a station good and unique are the tracks it plays. You don't hear every other song on a country station, being a country remix of a hiphop song, nor do you hear on the hiphop station every other song being a remix of a rock song. Party 93.1 was trying TOO hard to please the masses, that they have not only lost respect from the EDM listeners, but they've lost respect from the pop listeners as well. Personally, Party 931 offended me by making it look like dance music was an 80s and 90s music, but has no place in the mainstream market today other than to make stupid dance mixes of pop songs by playing more freestyle, classic dance, and pop remixes than actual genre-defining dance tracks.
I knew death to such a station was on its way, but I didn't want this to happen. I wrote them emails telling them to please change their format to something more unique. It is sad this station had to end this way. Now there's nothing worth listening to on the radio for me... especially since my favorite shows like Nocturnal Sessions and Global DJ Broadcast are gone.
Let this be a warning to future dance stations. Keep your pop remixes and golden oldy dance classics to an extremely low ratio compared to the actual new, genre-defining dance tracks that make dance music what it is today.
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Last edited by gerrycueto on Feb-15-2005 at 21:58
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