Atlanta's USA Dance Mix celebrates 1st anniversary

Since our debut last March we now have loyal listeners around the globe. Who would have thought a NEW format covering all Dance and all decades would be so popular? Other Dance stations cover the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s, etc. But, WE COVER THEM ALL. 40 years of Dance-Disco-House music. Currently we have over 700 tracks with about 1/3 of them unique to USA Dance Mix!!! Disco began in 1974, so we have adjusted our 40 year format by dropping all songs from that year (we only had two). However, next year we will say goodbye to about 20 tracks from 1975.

In a typical 48 hour period we have close to 500 listening session from 55 countries, with the average listening length being 75 minutes (an almost unheard of statistic). Many loyal fans listen for hours at a time! With a lot of room for growth and limited promotion available other than word of mouth (not a lot out there for web stations) we do somehow continue to add new listeners. Our station sound varies by day of the week and generally covers a 24 hour period starting at midnight. I feel we are really breaking some ground with not only the format but the daily “format” also. (I invite all Radio Discussions Dance heads to check us out, as our sound has evolved and improved over the first year).

Lastly, I list our daily formats in order of popularity:
“Everybody Loves Friday” Show (midnight-noon) Retro and new Dance titles with Love in them.
“Worldwide Disco Trip” (noon Fri.-midnight Sun.) Blends the old with the new.
“Super Soulful” Tuesday & Thursday (all day) More Funk, R&B Crossover jams presented.
“Wonder Women Wednesday” (all day) Mostly female singers and artists (a few men thrown in)
“Absolutely Awesome Monday” (all day) More recurrent tracks from the past 5 or so years presented along with the new and less retro (gives the station a “newer” sound).

sounds like an old school format to me

Not really. We play a lot of 2015 tracks as well as 2000-2014.

At this point, anything before 2010 is classic now

I hear you. I call it "heritage" product. Anyway, not to dwell on the subject but I can actually pull up the years........which I haven't done before, so this is for me as much you and everyone else (only took about 30 min).

YEAR songs (as of 4-9-15)
Keep in mind that most of the 2015 songs are in HEAVY rotation and heard more often.
2015 24
2014 43
2013 14
2012 38
2011 27
2010 18 (2010-2015 174)
2009 16
2008 20
2007 12 (these stats clearly reflect the Disco sound revival which began in 2007)
2006 05
2005 03
2004 05
2003 03
2002 04
2001 06
2000 06 (2000-2009 80)
1999 08
1998 03
1997 01
1996 06
1995 02
1994 04
1993 03 (wasn't this about the time Dance stations began to bail?)
1992 11
1991 14
1990 08 (1990-1999 60)
1989 12
1988 07
1987 05
1986 08
1985 09
1984 10
1983 13
1982 15
1981 27
1980 21 (1980-1989 127)
1979 52 (this was the peak year for Disco)
1978 32
1977 26
1976 14
1975 19
1974 02 (Disco officially began this year, we don't play 1974 in our format -that would be year 41 (our format only covers the last 40 years)
(1974-1979 145)

P.S.
So 2010-2015 on USA Dance Mix has more titles than the 80's and 90's combined. We're not just old school, we're new school also!!!!

Slightly less than half of our song titles are from 2000+.

You are aware there is another station called DanceMixUSA, Correct?

Exactly, that' why we're called USA Dance Mix.

Got any Arabesque on there?

They're an all girl European group out of Germany. (They sing in English.) Kind of a cross between Bangles and Expose'.
Believe they've broken up now but they still play there music on shortwave.