Seems like most Hot AC are playing around 1 90s an hour to 1 90s every 2-3 hours. Most AC are also playing around 1-2 90s an hour to 1 90s every 1-2 hours. AC are still playing around 2-4 80s an hour which is still far less 80s than they used to play five years ago.
AC are playing fewer 80s than it did a few years ago. At least down to 3-4 80s an hour for an average AC, 2-3 80s an hour on some AC, and even 1-2 80s an hour on a few AC out there. As AC are playing fewer 80s, I thought they should have picked up more on 90s, but they aren't. They're playing 0-2 90s an hour, even 1 90s every 1-2 hours on some AC. They should play like 5-6 90s an hour or at least 3-4 90s an hour, ideally. But they're playing only 0-2 90s an hour. They're also playing much fewer 90s than they did five years ago and they're playing fewer 90s than 80s. 80s and 90s are going away together on AC. I wonder how well Classic Hits are going to pick up on 90s since 90s are well ignored by Hot AC and AC together over the past five years. At least many Classic Hits are already starting to play a little bit of 90s.
If I'm correct about Hot AC, it seems like Hot AC plays around 0-1 90s an hour, 1-2 00s an hour, and 9-11 recurrents/currents an hour. And it seems like AC plays around 2-4 80s an hour, 0-2 90s an hour, 0-2 00s an hour, and 2-4 recurrents/currents an hour.
It seems like the 90s and 00s were the only decades when 90s music got most of its respect from both Hot AC and AC where Hot AC took on the alternative and grunge materials by the 00s. Ever since the beginning of this decade, 90s music started to fade off Hot AC and AC together. That's very surprising for AC because AC didn't even get a chance to embrace much of the 90s and early 00s alternative and grunge materials that Hot AC loved so much in the 00s.
We only heard "Under the Bridge", "Two Princes", "Mr. Jones", "How Bizarre", "Beautiful Day", "One", "Ordinary World", "Come Undone", "Friday I'm in Love", "All for You", "One Headlight", "Unbelievable", "December", "The World I Know", "Real World", "Push", "Dreams" by The Cranberries, "Closing Time", "No Rain", "Tom's Diner", "Life Is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane, "Everything You Want", "The Middle", "With Arms Wide Open", "Higher", "Crazy", "Cryin'", "I've Been Thinking About You", "What Is Love", "Crash Into Me", "If You Could Only See", "Jumper", "Counting Blue Cars" on AC so far. I named most of the 90s and early 00s alternative/grunge/rhythmic tracks that I know had been aired on AC including KMGL, WLTW, KCKC, WRCH, and WLMG.
It seems like the only place you can find these 90s and early 00s alternative/grunge tracks now that Hot AC had pounded so much on in the 00s is on an Adult Alternative, Rock, Modern Rock, or Adult Hits/Variety Hits. I also believe Adult Alternative or Modern Rock doesn't play that much 90s or 00s anymore with the way Hot AC are. I believe Adult Hits is the best format to look for if you're looking for a station that still play these 90s and early 00s alternative/grunge tracks along with most of the new wave and glam materials of the 80s. The problem is that only half of the markets in the nation have an Adult Hits. I know Classic Rock had been heavy on 70s and 80s. With the way 90s and 00s are treated by Hot AC and AC, I wonder how well Classic Rock will embrace these 90s and early 00s tracks in the coming years, knowing that most markets have a Classic Rock.
It seems like either 90s music lack wide selections of tracks from each genre in that decade or that each genre in 90s music doesn't blend to well together with other genres from that decade. In the end, it's the decade where the style of music evolved from ballads, new wave, and glam to alternative, grunge, and rhythmic. One of my theory of why 90s music didn't stand up to well with time in radio is probably because there aren't much audience from the Gen-X population to support the audience shares while there is a vast amount of audience from the youngest end of the baby boomers to support the audience share from the oldest end of AC. That's why 70s kind of lasted a while on AC till a couple of years ago, so as the 80s now. You also saw how well 60s held up on Classic Hits a couple years ago, so as the 70s now.
If you observe the
population pyramid of 2014, the population for female (and male too) between 35-39 are small compare to the rest of the population surrounding that age range. That's why it's apparent why AC haven't been doing so well over the past five years. That's why over the past five years, it had proven that 90s tracks doesn't test very well with the audiences for Hot AC and AC, especially in 12+ and 25-54. That's why it's apparent that AC are focusing more heavily on 80s and recurrents/currents, but ignoring the 90s and 00s while Hot AC are focusing primarily on recurrents/currents. And it's apparent that some Hot AC had ignored 90s after it phased-out 80s.