why do radio stations have to repeat songs so much??

Question

its annoying, why can't they play some not so old songs besides the new?

Answer 1

They get paid for it! It's promoting and advertisement.

Answer 2

It's to establish familiarity.



Radio programming for a particular day is scheduled well in advance and announcers have little to do with it. Music directors are told what songs should be put in and how often the songs should play, and they schedule the day based on that information. Most radio stations play a new, charting song at least twice per day, perhaps three times or more in a 24 hour period. That is used to establish a following for the song and hopefully sell it at the record stores. Once the song becomes a hit, and it stops charting, the song is taken out of the heavy rotation and played less frequently, roughly two or three times or less in a week.



This also varies with the market's population and how many stations of the same format serve it, for example, a very large city would have at least 2 stations of a same format, so in order to make sure just about everybody who tunes in at different times listens to a new song, it's scheduled to play more frequently in a day.

Answer 3

Its called heavy rotation....



When an artist comes out with a new song, the record companys make deals with the radio stations, that way the radio stations get to play the song first getting more listeners, and the artist/record companys get all the royalties :)

Answer 4

it is referred to as company radio. sparkling channel owns approximately ninety 5% of all stations. With song piped via satelite from an significant workplace in ny. Get XM or Sirius to get faraway from the consistent 22 song rotation.

Answer 5

Radio stations are payed by record companies to play and promote songs. They have to keep and abide by play lists in order to prove that they have actually played the songs they are being payed to play.

I see a lot of you have given thumbs downs to similar answers, but, unfortunately, it's true.

Answer 6

They play what people want to hear.



There are such things as ratings and when ratings move up or down they wnt to know why and find the answer. So you see by the resurch done it is shown that to have good ratings then play the same music more often to catch more people.



Another reason is that thye have to pay for each tune they use. It is cheaper to use the same one many times than getting different ones all the time.



Just think there are more than one radio station and more than one style of broadcasting. You can turn the dial from time to time.

Answer 7

because the have to play what's popular at the moment so they over play 7-9 songs until 7-9 new ones are popular.

Answer 8

theyre told what to play by record companies

Answer 9

Cause it would cost more brain power to pick and select songs?

Answer 10

THEY HAVE A CERTAIN LIST OF SONGS THAT ARE PLAYED....HOUR BY HOUR...ITS LIKE A TRACK LIST

Answer 11

Because they are getting paid to do so.

Answer 12

Maybe because once people like a song they like to hear it every now and then.

Answer 13

coz,only brand new works although it sucks