Artist from The 80s don't get played anymore. There's a rule seems like over 20 years they stop playing you. Even if you are a huge artist they don't play you anymore.They play 2 songs. In the 80s this worked with James Brown and Aretha Franklin, but what about 80s artists. *0s artists were huger. Michael said before Off The Wall nobody was selling 20 million. That being so don't you think they should play more songs from 80s artists like Michael, Madona, and Prince.

I honestly think there she'd be an old pop station. Playing old songs from Pop artists and new ones.

With that do you think Prince would be the artist he once was. Janet once did an arena 2 night. Now she can only do small ones of 6,000. IS it quality, age, or mediaplay....lack thereof? I thik it would help cause today's artists aren't selling like before. WIth Michael gone maybe more people would listen to Prince. The 80s were bigger.

I always seem to be hearing MJ or Madonna on the radio. Janet as well sometimes. I never hear Prince though. :/

I have a TOTALLY different experience. If I'm listening to the radio in my car, I usually have it on Kool 108 and I hear Prince practically every time I'm in the car. Then, I'll get out of the car and hear him in the restaurants I go to or shops I may enter. I don't know if it's fate or what but I seem to hear him all the time. He follows me everywhere I go.

fluid said:

Artist from The 80s don't get played anymore. There's a rule seems like over 20 years they stop playing you. Even if you are a huge artist they don't play you anymore.They play 2 songs. In the 80s this worked with James Brown and Aretha Franklin, but what about 80s artists. *0s artists were huger. Michael said before Off The Wall nobody was selling 20 million. That being so don't you think they should play more songs from 80s artists like Michael, Madona, and Prince.

I honestly think there she'd be an old pop station. Playing old songs from Pop artists and new ones.

With that do you think Prince would be the artist he once was. Janet once did an arena 2 night. Now she can only do small ones of 6,000. IS it quality, age, or mediaplay....lack thereof? I thik it would help cause today's artists aren't selling like before. WIth Michael gone maybe more people would listen to Prince. The 80s were bigger.

OK, I'm gonna say it straight and I apologize if that offends you cuz that honestly ain't the purpose. You need to work on your English: the way you write makes you sound like someone with psychological issues, a madman if u prefer, and that really isn't cool

As for what u say in your thread I don't know where u live but airwaves are flooded with radios playing hits from the 80's, and there are many smaller stations that play more recent music by 80's artist: I hardly ever listen to the radio and still, I've heard songs from almost every Prince album from the 2000's on the radio.

+ I don't understand your obsession, from thread to thread, with mainstream medias airplay and album sales. Music isn't about that and the fact that regularly folks come here that believe that it is tells me that mainstream medias have managed to brainwash a whole generation, and that really sucks. I get the same crap as a writer, to be honest, every once in a while people I meet tell me that if I'm a talented writer how come I ain't on TV and don't make big bucks with my writings... This is science fiction, not real life: most of the talented artists that walk Earth today can hardly make a living of what they're doing, some manage to live decently from it and a very few get to stardom. Always been like that, always will.

"Black Sweat" got a lot radio airplay here, iirc.

That was in 2006.

It is Prince's own fault, I blame him for not making singles, radio friendly "hits".

The last really big "hit" single, was it "Eye Hate U" in late 1995?

These days and years (the "new") Prince music doesn't have appeal to the broader mainstream, imho.

databank said:

fluid said:

Artist from The 80s don't get played anymore. There's a rule seems like over 20 years they stop playing you. Even if you are a huge artist they don't play you anymore.They play 2 songs. In the 80s this worked with James Brown and Aretha Franklin, but what about 80s artists. *0s artists were huger. Michael said before Off The Wall nobody was selling 20 million. That being so don't you think they should play more songs from 80s artists like Michael, Madona, and Prince.

I honestly think there she'd be an old pop station. Playing old songs from Pop artists and new ones.

With that do you think Prince would be the artist he once was. Janet once did an arena 2 night. Now she can only do small ones of 6,000. IS it quality, age, or mediaplay....lack thereof? I thik it would help cause today's artists aren't selling like before. WIth Michael gone maybe more people would listen to Prince. The 80s were bigger.

OK, I'm gonna say it straight and I apologize if that offends you cuz that honestly ain't the purpose. You need to work on your English: the way you write makes you sound like someone with psychological issues, a madman if u prefer, and that really isn't cool

Fluid

You just ignore what this guy says.

Your writing is perfectly fine.

Your posts are crazy puzzles that requires a blend of visualization,

guesswork & absurdity to interpret.

They are just blind to your brilliance.

databank said:

fluid said:

Artist from The 80s don't get played anymore. There's a rule seems like over 20 years they stop playing you. Even if you are a huge artist they don't play you anymore.They play 2 songs. In the 80s this worked with James Brown and Aretha Franklin, but what about 80s artists. *0s artists were huger. Michael said before Off The Wall nobody was selling 20 million. That being so don't you think they should play more songs from 80s artists like Michael, Madona, and Prince.

I honestly think there she'd be an old pop station. Playing old songs from Pop artists and new ones.

With that do you think Prince would be the artist he once was. Janet once did an arena 2 night. Now she can only do small ones of 6,000. IS it quality, age, or mediaplay....lack thereof? I thik it would help cause today's artists aren't selling like before. WIth Michael gone maybe more people would listen to Prince. The 80s were bigger.

OK, I'm gonna say it straight and I apologize if that offends you cuz that honestly ain't the purpose. You need to work on your English: the way you write makes you sound like someone with psychological issues, a madman if u prefer, and that really isn't cool

Maybe he just wants to show a bit of self-irony because of the name and such...

I often hear 1999, Purple Rain and When Doves Cry on the radio, I heard Rock and Roll Love Affair not too long ago too.

thedoorkeeper said:

databank said:

OK, I'm gonna say it straight and I apologize if that offends you cuz that honestly ain't the purpose. You need to work on your English: the way you write makes you sound like someone with psychological issues, a madman if u prefer, and that really isn't cool

Fluid

You just ignore what this guy says.

Your writing is perfectly fine.

Your posts are crazy puzzles that requires a blend of visualization,

guesswork & absurdity to interpret.

They are just blind to your brilliance.

Oh... My bad

Ok I do have ADHD and Depression. ADHD makes you smart and creative. Depression makes you slow, but not mad.

I live in Houston and only Majic 102 would play Michael or Prince's new stuff. Maybe 96.5. Then also 99.1. But for the mainstream Pop stations and youg stations KRBE, Hot 95.7 <The Box they don't old acts. Take Janet...Call On Me and SO Excited were the only singles they played off 20 Y.O. SHe was saying that's why it didn't do well.

And as for typing, I took typing. For some reason this forum messes up. Don't know if it's this comp or the site but what I type get's scambled in other paragraphs and such. In The US after 20 years they stop giving airplay. Don't recall Prince since The 90s. They did play Musicology on Mtv and Black Sweat.

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Radio generally doesn't play really old acts, except on an oldies station, and they don't play new songs from them. In the 1980's, I don't remember hearing Perry Como or Dean Martin on a Top 40 station. They had the 'easy listening' format for music from that era. I did hear Johnny Mathis, but that was because he had a TV theme song (Without Us from Family Ties) as a single. Little Richard had a new soundtrack song too (Great Gosh A Mighty), but it wasn't played that much. There were those Dirty Dancing oldies soundtracks, and some of those songs were played on the current Top 40 stations, particularly Do You Love Me by The Contours.

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Ben E. King's Stand By Me, It's A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong, and Daydream Believer by The Monkees were also re-released and got airplay. All of these songs were on then current soundtracks except Daydream Believer.

1)Pop radio plays only music who are on major labels for the most part.

2) Since the industry is down in sales they are NOT willing to have a whole lot of room for diversity of music styles.

3) Oddly enough Janalle Monae and Prince both have trouble playing their new stuff on the radios because they don't fit most radio formats.

fluid said:

Ok I do have ADHD and Depression. ADHD makes you smart and creative. Depression makes you slow, but not mad.

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Thanks for clarifying

People with ADHD are smart and creative. Michael had it, Tome Cruise has it, and so do Justin Timberlake and STeven Hawking.

They do play old acts in Europe, but not North America. Prince acts like he has ADHD but it's not confirmed.

fluid said:

They do play old acts in Europe, but not North America.

I see Vicente Fernández on TV sometimes. Mexico is part of North America.

here in America,80s artists get played alot on the Old School/flashback-type stations and there are alot of 'em.In my area,we have a station like this and they play alot of Prince,MJ,Madonna and others.

My main problem with this station? They play the same 4 or 5 songs by these artists! They focus only on the biggest hits ("Beat It","When Doves Cry","Into The Groove",etc) instead of playing some of their lesser known hits.I would lose my mind if they were to play something like "Let's Work",lol

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SoulAlive said:

here in America,80s artists get played alot on the Old School/flashback-type stations and there are alot of 'em.In my area,we have a station like this and they play alot of Prince,MJ,Madonna and others.

My main problem with this station? They play the same 4 or 5 songs by these artists! They focus only on the biggest hits ("Beat It","When Doves Cry","Into The Groove",etc) instead of playing some of their lesser known hits.I would lose my mind if they were to play something like "Let's Work",lol

But these stations don't play new music by them, like 'classic rock' stations don't. 'Old school' & 'retro' are just newer names for "oldies". Classic rock also play the same songs over and over like Freebird, Barracuda, Blinded By The Light, Dream On, Jamie's Crying, etc.

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I don't think Paul McCartney, George Benson, Spin Doctors, Kenny Rogers, Brand New Heavies, or Joan Jett who have new albums are getting played on a Top 40 station. Nor do newer acts who make older sounding music like Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings & Vintage Trouble get airplay. I don't even hear them or Bettye LaVette on an "urban contemporary" station, which tends to play new Charlie Wilson music a lot. You might hear them on a college radio station, but they run from pledges, and don't count as far as charting goes.

I always find it funny when people complain about 80s acts not having pop hits now and "how horrible radio is these days".

As others have stated, how many decades-old acts were having hits in the 80s? Paul McCartney's pop career petered out by the end of the decade, The Stones were consistent but winding down their top 40 run, Aretha had a few hits, James Brown had that fluke hit from Rocky. But for the most part new, young acts dominated and pushed those artists off the airwaves. And those 60s artists were only 20 years into their careers at that point. Prince is nearly 40 years in now...that would be like 40s superstars Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller having hits in the 80s (which didn't happen). If you're a high schooler now listening to mainstream radio you weren't even alive the last time Prince had a top ten hit. Also, let's not pretend it was only quality acts having hits in the 80s...for every MJ and Prince there were a dozen Falcos, Air Supplys, and Warrants dominating the charts.

And older acts do still have hits, us old-timers just don't like to acknowledge that those old acts are people most of us still think of as new. Mariah Carey had a top 20 hit this year and she's 23 years into her career now; that's as long as Aretha had been around in 1985. R. Kelly is having a hit with Lady Gaga right now and he's 21 years in. Pearl Jam just had a number one album. Britney and Justin are 15 years in now. Hell, even Kanye and Maroon 5 are a decade deep into having top 40 hits.

Maybe Prince could still have a fluke Cher/"Believe" kinda hit but it's unlikely. Let's let today's kids have their artists, the same way we had ours.

renfield said:

I always find it funny when people complain about 80s acts not having pop hits now and "how horrible radio is these days".

People (usually an older generation) have always said this too about ragtime, jazz, early rock 'n roll/rockabilly, teen idols, The Beatles, disco, light rock, arena rock, new wave, progressive rock, bubblegum, rap, disco, hair metal, etc. It's nothing new.

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Stamp Out The Beatles (1964 video around time 12:25)

Rock n roll causes juvenile delinquency

nursev said:

Only time i hear Prince on the radio is on oldie stations and on 105.7 in Dallas. To be honest, Prince made the public forget about him with his various antics. He got what he wanted.

He's over a certain age, so not as likely to get much airplay on a current music station. At best, his new music might get played on an urban contemporary station, but only the slow jams. Prince's look and image probably would not appeal to the average hip hop listener either.

thedance said:

Radio 6 Soul & Jazz in Holland fortunately does not forget Prince.