"Many" still love it? Relative to the target audience, I doubt it meets any reasonable definition of "many."
Don't expect to hear it again.
On WOGL, anything is game. I expect to hear it Labor Day Weekend 2018.
No guarantee they'll do this feature again next year. Or if they do, that they'll play the exact same songs.
The station seems to be transitioning to the classic-hits model prevalent in other major markets that still have stations in the format -- '80s-centered, with a few late '70s titles and beginning to introduce the '90s. Apparently, Philadelphia has been a lot friendlier to older music while this sea change has been taking place elsewhere, but change appears inevitable now. I can't imagine this feature returning in current form in 2018 -- it would have no audience other than chart geeks and geezers, none of whom advertisers want to reach. Even a listening graveyard like Labor Day weekend needs to be sold, right?
Many meaning fans of Debby Boone, fans of 70's music, or anyone that likes similar music. Not the majority by any stretch of the imagination, but enough. Go to You Tube and bring up the song and see the ratio to likes and dislikes. This one has a proportion of 6000 positives to just 198 dislikes. Now, I realize this isn't radio airplay, but it goes to show that "many" still enjoy the song.....and "many" of the comments do verify. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC9sEAqEjxs
Many meaning fans of Debby Boone
...fans of 70's music
or anyone that likes similar music.
Not the majority by any stretch of the imagination, but enough.
Go to You Tube and bring up the song and see the ratio to likes and dislikes. This one has a proportion of 6000 positives to just 198 dislikes. Now, I realize this isn't radio airplay, but it goes to show that "many" still enjoy the song.....and "many" of the comments do verify
Many meaning fans of Debby Boone, fans of 70's music, or anyone that likes similar music. Not the majority by any stretch of the imagination, but enough. Go to You Tube and bring up the song and see the ratio to likes and dislikes. This one has a proportion of 6000 positives to just 198 dislikes. Now, I realize this isn't radio airplay, but it goes to show that "many" still enjoy the song.....and "many" of the comments do verify. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC9sEAqEjxs
Enough for what? Not, definitely, enough to help a radio station.
You can play a so-called mediocre song
Won't hurt them either...WOGL last three books are 7.2, 7.5 and 7.4, first place, three sessions in a row. They can get away with it. You can play a so-called mediocre song and have week long holiday specials and they continue to do very, very well. And that's since two other week long specials at Memorial Weekend and the 4th of July. And their listeners don't mind at all.
Music Choice has neither advertising nor ratings to worry about, so its playlist is likely to contain just about anything. That's not the worst song it plays by any means.