Country Radio in a Tailspin with a Key Demographic
Things are going from bad to worse in country music radio rankings, and now were starting see the lengths country radio is willing to go to in an attempt to rekindle the magic. Just six short months ago it looked like popular country music was poised to take over the music world and take down pop as the most dominant genre. Now Bro-Country has been put out to pasture (though someone forgot to tell Granger Smith), Taylor Swift has moved to pop, and the ratings for country radio’s key demographic of 18 to 34-year-olds continues its precipitous slide.
Two weeks ago Saving Country Music presented the case of why Country Music is Sick in 2015, citing the genre’s ratings tailspin as one piece of evidence. Since then, the ratings for February have been released by Nielsen, and they show things continuing their downward trend. Country has slipped once again from an 8.6 share to an 8.4 share amongst the key demographic of 18 to 34-year-olds, and is now third overall compared to other formats. These are also the worst ratings for country since December of 2012. Historically, these numbers still aren’t terrible for country, but considering where the genre was in the fall of 2014 compared to now, alarm bells are starting to ring, and some program directors at important radio stations are beginning to take drastic measures to right the ship.
The flagship of Cumulus Media’s country music NASH-branded empire—WNSH 94.7 in New York City—has been somewhat of a losing proposition ever since it was launched some two years ago. But now they’ve resorted to unapologetically playing pop music in an attempt to lure in more listeners. As Billboard’s radio expert Sean Ross reports, the radio station has made the unusual move of adding older pop songs from acts such as Daughtry, John Mayer, the Plain White T’s, as well as bringing Taylor Swift back to the rotation in an effort to court younger listeners.
This may not be all that unusual for a country station trying to hack it in one of the hardest markets for country music in the United States. But even more troubling, this trend is beginning to reach the heartland.
On March 8th, one of the longest-serving and most well-recognized radio personalities in country music named Terry Dorsey passed away. His 34-year reign at Dallas/Ft.Worth’s formidable 96.3 KSCS was one of country radio’s most historic tenures, and yours truly grew up listening to Terry with his partner Hawkeye for many years. Terry Dorsey had just retired on December 17th, and like so many who sink their life into one pursuit, Dorsey wasn’t around much longer after he called it quits. Terry’s retirement and passing were seen as yet another sign of the changing of the guard in country music.
Now KSCS has joined WNSH in New York in breaking format in an attempt to stop the bleeding of the 18 to 34-year-olds. Recently added to their playlist was Taylor Swift’s buddy Ed Sheeran and his super hit “Thinking Out Loud,” as well as the Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney collaboration “FourFive Seconds” that has been called “country influenced” by some because of the presence of an acoustic guitar.
Ed Sheeran regularly builds his music out from the acoustic guitar as well, and this signifier is beginning to be used by some as the bridge to crossover appeal. Where country music has begun to implement electronic intros, drum beats, and synth beds into big singles more and more—especially with acts like Sam Hunt—pop music has actually been going in the opposite direction, opting for more earthy and organic sounds in songs, like in Ed Sheeran’s music for example. And one can’t find it too surprising that this trend coincides with country radio’s ratings slide and a dip in sales, while pop has seen a measurable uptick and regained its perch atop popular music, of course partly from Taylor Swift’s shift of allegiance.
The arguments you see in country music about the lack of quality are not being mirrored equally in the pop world at the moment. From Ed Sheeran, to yes even Taylor Swift, it can be argued American pop music is in a period of elevated substance, while country appears to be in a headlong search for the bottom, despite a few bright spots at the back end of the Top 25.
READ: Is Pop Music Now Trumping Pop Country in Substance?
Furthermore this effort by certain country radio stations to build pop titles into their rotation (and pop radio playing clearly pop “country” songs) continues to break down the distinctions in American music, and sends us further down the road towards one big mono-genre where all popular music sounds like the same homogenized blob.
From the beginning, naysayers like Saving Country Music have been warning that country music was binging on a sugar rush with Bro-Country and other adverse trends, setting itself up for a precipitous fall. Now we’re seeing the results of this. Sam Hunt and Metro-Politan haven’t been a significant Bro-Country substitute, at least not so far. And like when Russia pegged its budget to oil selling at $120 a barrel and then the price falls to $46, it throws budgets out of whack, sends radio stations and labels bathing in red ink, puts future plans on hold, and has the genre searching for which way is up.
By playing songs that are either marketed as pop, or pop songs marketed as country, all country radio is doing is advertising the virtues of the pop format to their country listeners. Why would a listener tune into a country station to hear Ed Sheeran and Sam Hunt between more twangy tracks when they could tune into KISS-FM and hear pop music all the time? Instead of emulating what pop is doing or being envious of pop’s top artists, country radio and the genre at large should advertise what makes the country format distinct from others, and promote the virtues of country music that other formats can’t deliver. This would be the soluble way to stabilize country from its current fall. Collaboration and even crossover songs are okay as long as you come back to what distinguishes you from the competition. Otherwise country music will continue to chase its own tail, and continue to lose listeners to formats that don’t apologize for what they play or covet the music of other formats, but play their own music proudly.
March 24, 2015 @ 9:56 am
Wow, KSCS certainly has gone downhill since I was listening to it in Northeast Texas in 2000-01…
March 24, 2015 @ 10:11 am
You know there’s a problem when pop sounds more country than country. I was at Applebee’s where they play pop/rock songs, and they sounded more like country music than what they play on country stations these days, not that that’s saying much. Pop has its place, and it is not in country music.
March 24, 2015 @ 10:19 am
“…it can be argued that American pop music is in a period of elevated substance.” well, start arguing because by God I don’t hear it. but with all due respect (fan of SCM), really, compared to what? I think it sucks the worst – as far as ‘hits’ – as it has since the 1958-1963 dry gulch.
March 24, 2015 @ 12:55 pm
I am in no way encouraging people to listen to pop music, saying that it’s good these days, saying that I listen to it, or saying that it’s better than past eras in the long term. All I’m saying is that if you’re looking at the trends in music, generally speaking pop music is trending upward slightly as opposed to downward like country. This is not an endorsement. I’m simply giving my point of view.
March 24, 2015 @ 3:37 pm
I know, it probably is. on @NPRMusic there’s a virtual Noah’s Ark of new music everyday from as many ‘bags’ and sub-genres as can be imagined. but little of it sounds ‘famous’ to me. big radio is such a fog-eared, manipulative, square and desperate mass-media machine that it seems hopeless to expect any kind of content resurrection. I’m 63 and I was feeling curmudgeonly I guess. you are very well informed and you take a balanced view instead of just calling down the thunder on (most) everything, like I do when I hear ‘popular’ radio (not that I’m listening ha ha).
but keep up the good writing from an appreciative admirer.
March 24, 2015 @ 1:24 pm
What was wrong in the 1958-1963 period?
March 24, 2015 @ 3:50 pm
it was a period when the excitement and influence of Rock n Roll had been marched off the airwaves and the ‘grownups’ in the music industry had taken control again ha ha. Elvis was in the Army, Chuck Berry was in prison, Eddie Cochran was killed in a carcrash, Buddy Holly & company died in a plane crash, Little Richard had freaked himself out and become a minister (for a while), and Gene Vincent was severely injured in the same accident that killed Eddie, etc. there was much great music in R&B (proto-Soul, Motown, Atlantic) but it wasn’t really on ‘white’ radio. until the commercial Folk movement with Peter Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Dylan Dylan Dylan around 62-63, the teen idols in the wake of the 1st wave of Rock n Roll pruges (whatever the causes) were the ‘safe as milk’ likes of Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Connie Francis, etc. then The Beatles blew the lid off and young musician’s & artists were calling the shots creatively to at least some significant degree.
March 24, 2015 @ 4:17 pm
What about jazz? From what I hear, jazz was at its creative peak around this period.
March 24, 2015 @ 4:27 pm
yeah, Jazz for sure was making some great albums and electric Blues from Chess and other labels were making some great records, but these records weren’t really on pop radio or teenager radio, Top 40 or whatever the 1st national playlists geared to the youth market were called. I think Girl From Ipenema was a huge Jazz – Bossa Nova hybrid hit post Jerry Lee marrying his 13 ur old cousin and pre British Invasion, but it was more an adult phenomenon, a bachelor pad I Want To Jold Your Hand.
March 25, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
I have to agree mainstream radio is in dire straits in all genres. But I think the reason country blows the most is because the dues would LOVE to just be pop and do pop but they are afraid to compete with the women dominating the pop sphere. In country there is NO competition for them except other dudes. IN pop they have to battle three to four divas just to get into the top ten. And by divas I mean it in the way it was meant to be used not as a compliment.
March 24, 2015 @ 10:22 am
Man I’m so happy I found SCM page, Trigger’s reviews are a must read for me everyday, now back to my Pandora my stations are Blackberry, Bingham, Robison, Cody, Drive by Truckers, Hubbard, you get the idea.
March 24, 2015 @ 10:25 am
I think this implosion of the genre could give it some of its best work. Not from Music Row of course from the do-it-yourselfers. Hank Thompson did the same thing when Western Swing collapsed, making bigger better big bands in a time when they were fast fading, and now the man’s a staple of the genre. We can already see it happening with our living legends releasing some of the best work of their careers and people like Sturgill and Isbell on the up and coming.
March 24, 2015 @ 11:54 am
I would generally be inclined to agree with this–the decline of mainstream country is more than offset by the great music being made in the Americana/Country crossover territory. So, in terms of new music available, the decline of mainstream country radio is no crisis. Unfortunately, when it comes to radio airplay, the great music in the Americana/Country crossover territory does not get much airplay on so-called triple-A radio (with occasional exceptions), and gets zero airplay on mainstream country radio. That doesn’t leave many radio options.
Here in DC, in addition to WMZQ, the highly limited mainstream country station, we have a so-called “Bluegrass-Country Station,” on WAMU 105.5. This is part of WAMU public radio, whose main station is the typical NPR-heavy public radio format on 88.5. It is not commercial. They could play anything they want. But they limit the Americana/Country shows to three hours a week and rarely play any traditional country. Instead, they play middle-of-the-road bluegrass 23 hours a day. (I like that stuff, but there is only so much I can take.)
There have been a number of strong new Americana records released in 2015, including several reviewed here, like Ryan Bingham, Brandi Carlile, James McMurtry, American Aquarium, etc. I would add Joe Pug’s new record to this list. Some of these lean more towards country than others, obviously. But none gets any radio play around here, as far as I have heard (even though Joe Pug is a local product).
If you want to hear this music, you either need to buy every single album or listen via pandora or spotify or something like that. That may be a relatively small problem for the industry, because this remains a niche market. But to me, it is a greater annoyance and a bigger mystery.
March 24, 2015 @ 4:03 pm
I live in and am from Central VA but I go to Northern VA to work and because my CD player is broke right now I was skipping through the stations and found 105.5.
I reckon some of that stuff is “middle-of-the-road” but I’d say a good portion of that stuff is pretty darn good. Well at least most of it is the kind of bluegrass I like and grew up on.
Whichever way you come at it, at least there playing something decent in that Hell Hole they call Northern VA.
March 24, 2015 @ 10:26 am
kanye on “country” radio? Things are even worse than I thought.
March 24, 2015 @ 10:44 am
Kanye’s on the radio at all? Things are worse than either of us thought.
March 24, 2015 @ 11:50 am
There’s still such a thing as ” radio ” ? And people actually LISTEN to it ? Well no wonder things are where they’re at
March 25, 2015 @ 4:41 am
No offense to Trigger but the fact that a website named “saving country music” exists and thrives is a sad indicator of where country radio has plummeted to in the past decade or so.
March 24, 2015 @ 10:45 am
So Trigger, are you of the opinion that Urbanpolitan will eventually supplant bro-country or that it is simply a distraction of sorts? I know that it hasn’t taken hold, but do you think it even can?
March 24, 2015 @ 12:58 pm
That’s a good question. I think we’re a little too early in the trend to make that assessment, but so far it has failed to maintain the numbers of the key 18 to 34-year-old demographic that Bro-Country brought to the genre in droves. So far it’s the Sam Hunt show and that’s about it.
March 24, 2015 @ 11:06 am
This is the natural move when you become obsessed with chasing the younger listeners. It has been always been that youngers consumers (whether music or other products) have always been fickle and susceptible to trends and now the mainstream country industry has attached themselves to trend chasing. Say goodbye to the 15, 20 year long careers that have always been a plus for country music as well. Get in get yours and then back to obscurity.
Throw in a little self loathing and you have a country station playing Rihanna.
Also if Billboard or any other charting company has any integrity they will immediately remove these stations from there country radio monitoring panel.
March 24, 2015 @ 11:12 am
A geopolitical reference? Bestill my heart!
It may be noteworthy that both stations testing out the pop-marketed pop tunes are Cumulus, the same people who brought us the Nash Icons format. Maybe this is Cumulus doubling down on pushing format fragmentation? I still don’t believe the other conglomerates will get on board, but stranger things have happened. I also believe this was a trial balloon experiment as radio programmers try just about everything to staunch the bleeding of 18-34 listeners from the format and to deal with three years of bro catalog that may not be testing as well as recurrents.
Hard for me to imagine that turning country into a format that shares the HAC playlist is a long term solution for country radio’s current ratings decline. On the other hand, it may be noteworthy that KRTY San Jose, the station that added and played Brandy Clark’s “Hold My Hand” after the Grammys (looking at its current playlist, “Hold My Hand” picked around 2 spins per day there over the past 7 days), was up in overall ratings in the February books.
March 24, 2015 @ 11:22 am
‘as radio programmers try just about everything to staunch the bleeding of 18-34 listeners’
Well they could try to appeal to there traditional base which has been a slightly older demo. And I say slightly because they don’t have to target 75 year olds here. But the major problem is that the vast majority of programmers weren’t even in the country format 4, 5 years ago so they have no clue what is was like in the past. This is what happens when sell your soul for a short term hit.
March 24, 2015 @ 6:37 pm
What is this crazy talk?
😉
You’re right, obviously. Targeting a 25-44 adult core like they used to (especially trying to woo back the 35-44 core that’s drifted away over the past few years for obvious reasons)) with the kind of story songs and variety that made people tune in for longer periods of time (as opposed to spot-tuning-in) would be the sensible thing to do.
I totally agree.
March 24, 2015 @ 11:25 am
Off topic Windmills, but I was referred to you by Josh from Country Perspective for this question: what’s up with Montgomery Gentry’s new album? Originally it seemed like it was set for release today (March 24), but now it’s looking like April 20. I’ve not seen much concrete information on the date or even the album’s title, which looks to be Folks Like Us. What’s going on?
Wrong place, I know, but I didn’t know how else to get ahold of you.
March 24, 2015 @ 6:51 pm
Hi! I don’t know if you’re on Twitter but if you are, I’m @windmillsmusic – feel free to tweet me!
To answer your question, the 3/24 album release date came from Hits Daily Double’s Upcoming Releases list, I believe, which is a list the site gets from a retail source (which compiles it from various label release schedules). Those dates are obviously subject to change. But the same HDD list now says Folks Like Us is due out 6/2. That’s confirmed by Troy Gentry in this Billboard interview posted in early March:
Based on the above I’d guess that the reason the original album release date didn’t stick is that “Headlights” didn’t get much traction at radio, and they’re hoping the title track of the album does better.
March 24, 2015 @ 1:03 pm
Country radio very well may have missed its window to split the format. If this is the case, no doubt it has left Cumulus scrambling.
March 24, 2015 @ 11:47 am
You know, I honestly think it’s a good thing that mainstream Country music is on the decline. What a better way to get the money hungry hounds out of Nashville than to convince them that there is no money in Nashville?
March 24, 2015 @ 11:50 am
“Country” radio/record labels need to stop shitting on their actual fan base with this pathetic trend-grinding. We’re still out here and we still buy music. That’s how you keep the genre sustainable, imo.
March 24, 2015 @ 12:02 pm
Recently I finally got wired to NETFLIX ( I know, I know…where the hell have I been ..? ) . I was amazed at all of the programming that not only was I not aware of but that was into its 4th or 5th season or more . TV ‘got it’ years ago . As the programming on network TV became more and more dumbed down and narrow in focus , the options arose . THIS may be the great saviour of music in general and country in particular . Mainstream radio doesn’t get it . They are serving a dying market populated by listeners who couldn’t care less about the programming but DO care about being part of some trendy club and this is the easiest way to maintain membership – SHUT UP and KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN . The sad part is that this club is getting exactly what it deserves .
Although I listen to other sources than mainstream radio for my music , I’m not much of a TV watcher outside of sports . NETFLIX may change that the way satellite and other options changed my music-listening habits. If you are still listening to mainstream country radio these days , in my opinion it just means you don’t give a damn OR haven’t been introduced to the better options.
March 24, 2015 @ 1:19 pm
Speaking of TV, two of the best country stations out there are Channels 933 (Country Hits) and 934 (Classic Country) on Comcast. The former generally focuses on 90s and 00s country, while the latter focuses on 80s and earlier.
March 24, 2015 @ 1:32 pm
Yes, I often have that Classic Country channel (934) on in the background if I’m working or doing other stuff around the house. They play some stuff I don’t care for but also a lot of pretty good stuff.
March 24, 2015 @ 12:04 pm
I hope Bobby Bones reads this.
March 25, 2015 @ 8:46 am
Bobby Bones sucks!
March 24, 2015 @ 1:17 pm
This all makes me wonder: what is the purpose of the country music industry’s existence anymore? Why not just eliminate the pretense of “country radio” entirely? Maybe then we can start over from scratch.
March 24, 2015 @ 3:03 pm
I dub this new “Bro Country” or “Pop Country” genre in the words of Glen Campbell the “Rhinestone Cowboy Genre”! Here, I’ll let Glen explain…
https://youtu.be/8kAU3B9Pi_U
March 24, 2015 @ 4:49 pm
is there going to be a country music split anytime this year?
March 24, 2015 @ 8:28 pm
It’s not looking good.
March 24, 2015 @ 5:17 pm
Mainstream country music has been dying for several years. I’m almost positive that it is at it’s all-time low right now. I believe bro-country was the last gasp this genre had, and now that it’s mostly over, all that seems to be coming out now is a bunch of absolute garbage. I know many people think that bro-country is garbage, but when you really take a long hard look at it, it’s not as bad as you think it is. At least there were some true country music elements in it.
Look at this new pop generic garbage coming out….newcomer Michael Ray sucks, the Eli Young Band’s new song sucks, Gary Allan has sold out, Darius Rucker has been releasing “catchy” pop country songs, Easton Corbin decided to release a shitty ass song after the failure of “Clockwork” which was a TRUE country song, Josh Thompson and Jon Pardi NEVER get any airplay, Reba’s fresh sounding “Going Out Like That” is doing bad on the charts, Sam Hunt has been topping the charts with 100% top 40 pop music….I could keep going on and on and on. Country is dead. There is a FEW mainstream artists out there that are still making COUNTRY music…..Reba, Josh Thompson, Jon Pardi, Josh Turner, Joe Nichols, Mo Pitney, Kasey Musgraves, Jana Kramer, Rodney Atkins, Montgomery Gentry, etc…..but they all do TERRIBLE on the charts, because anything REAL COUNTRY never gets played.
FCK COUNTRY RADIO…..it has become GARBAGE lately and I’m completely done listening to it. Sick of hearing Cole Swindell, Lee Brice, Chris Young, and Sam Hunt.
March 24, 2015 @ 7:00 pm
Yeah I can’t stand Sam Hunt and Cole Swindell and I can’t stand Gary Allan , Michael Ray, and Eli Young Band’s new songs.
March 24, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
No, bro-country was the worst of the worst.
From a sonic perspective, the defining feature of country music is the soft and melodic production. Bro-country, with all of the loudness of hard rock and the unmelodic flatness of hip-hop, was pretty much as un-country as it gets. Even Sam Hunt’s and Gary Allan’s current music are much closer to true country in that sense.
Of course, that’s not even considering the atrocious lyrics that truly made bro-country the ultimate embarrassment to the genre. As I mentioned in the past, bro-country represented the lyrical nadir of mainstream music in the history of recorded songs (with the possible exception of mid-00s crunk rap). The new metro-country lyrics are easily superior.
March 24, 2015 @ 9:51 pm
Metro-country may have better lyrics, but the music isn’t even the slightest bit country, while bro-country still had alot of true country elements. I have yet to hear anything country at all in most of these new songs being released. While lyrically well written, the music counts too, and if it doesn’t have any country sound to it then what the hell is it? Pop music IMO, and I’m not a guy that often says “that ain’t country”.
March 24, 2015 @ 9:53 pm
Bro-“country” was not the slightest bit country either. Music that sounds loud and flat cannot possibly be considered country in any way.
March 24, 2015 @ 9:53 pm
Bro-country also has the distinction of killing the steel guitar in mainstream country music.
March 24, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
I miss the cry of the steel guitar in country music. The only artists I have heard on the radio in the past couple years that still use it are Josh Thompson and Jon Pardi…..and nobody knows who they are because “country” radio never plays them and all their singles fail on the charts. I miss when country music was truely pure country music thru and thru.
March 24, 2015 @ 9:02 pm
Miranda Lambert’s ‘Little Rad Wagon” is very bad 2 guns down. Don’t you agree Trig?
March 24, 2015 @ 9:14 pm
https://savingcountrymusic.com/single-review-miranda-lamberts-little-red-wagon
The song seems to be benefiting from a strong resurgence off the video and Grammy performance. The bigger it gets, the more I hate it.
March 24, 2015 @ 10:03 pm
I usually agree with you on almost everything Trig, but I wholeheartedly disagree in every way about your review on Little Red Wagon. That is one song I thought you’d pan till the end of time. But you only say one gun down? That song makes NO sense….it’s senseless garbage. I don’t feel this “fun, invigorating” vibe about the song that you mentioned….it’s an an atrocious abomination to my ears, the equivalent of my Siamese cat scratching the hell out of my door every morning. I get way more invigorated by even Sam Hunt than i do that horrible LRW song. Was really disappointed that Miranda put out such an awful song just to get airplay when she really could’ve chosen the better songs off her album that still would have likely done well on radio.
March 25, 2015 @ 3:05 am
Minimum Band Content Required to be Called ‘Country’, over time
1950: Mandolin, Banjo, Fiddle, Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
1960: Banjo, Fiddle, Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
1985: Fiddle, Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
2000: Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
2015: Acoustic Guitar
2020: Any band member ever owned a pair of cowboy boots.
March 25, 2015 @ 5:55 am
You’re being generous with 2015 and acoustic guitars. Most country songs on the radio today are completely electric/electronic.
March 25, 2015 @ 6:35 am
Everything went to hell when the Opry started permitting drums on stage.
“I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin’ in the camera
Man we could have some fun
And he’s up there, what’s that? Hawaiian noises?
Bangin’ on the bongos like a chimpanzee”
March 25, 2015 @ 8:12 am
Exactly RD: Buck Owens and Merle used drums!!! they never recorded any country songs in their life!!! Willie and Waylon and George too!! man we need everybody on the radio to sound like the Carter Family again if we’re going to save Country Music!!! sarcasmsarcasmsarcasmcarcasmsarcasm
March 25, 2015 @ 8:52 am
oh how is miss steel guitar/fiddle/mandolin/acoustic on country radio. I am not fooling anyone. I do not listen to country radio. My grand father told me that country music was Hank Williams and Bob Wills. I think Shooter Jennings “Outlaw You” song sums the current state of country radio perfectly.
March 25, 2015 @ 11:05 am
When the dust clears there will only be rappers and pop tarts on the airwaves.
March 25, 2015 @ 11:08 am
I almost commented that all the poptarts would be in my freezer, but then I realized that the kind of pop tarts you had in mind would get me arrested for being in my freezer. oh how I love ambiguity.
March 25, 2015 @ 11:21 am
You need to alternate head to feet when you stack them. Maximize your storage area…
March 27, 2015 @ 5:13 pm
Hey Trigger, I’d be interested in your thoughts on this:
https://www.facebook.com/KSCSDFW/posts/10153260565694047?fref=nf&pnref=story
March 27, 2015 @ 11:59 pm
I have not really listened to the a country music station in a long time. The music just sucks. I cannot stand FGL, Luke Bryan or Jason Aldean etc., and I am just tired of it. I have 4 country stations and I hear the same crap from all of them.
March 30, 2015 @ 12:26 am
Actually, you can tell what time a certain song will be played, it’s so predictable. I think it’s time to get writers older than 20 and Bro Country should not even be in the Country Music genre. It’s not country music. Nothing country about it. It’s pop music that is produced in Nashville. And it’s multiplying at breakneck speed. All of it sucks. Luke Bryan is the ringleader. Not only do I hate his music, I don’t like to look at him. The brite white teeth are a dead give away. All that music sounds alike.
March 30, 2015 @ 1:40 am
I’d be down for some George Ezra on country radio, honestly. That kid’s a hell of a lot more country than half the shit I hear at the moment.
June 9, 2015 @ 2:34 pm
I came to this article/site in search of an answer to a question:
Does anybody know if the song 4/5 seconds by Rihanna, Kanye an Paul McCartney is trending on the country charts?
Would Country music support a song by Rhianna and especially Kanye West? Could that song crack, the top-20? top-10?