I've read at various sites that certain cities almost never play his music anymore. This must vary by city, because where I am, he gets pretty high rotation on certain stations.

We have two Black stations. One caters to the young, rap and hip hop set. The other caters to an older demographic (about 27 and older). The second one I mentioned plays his music all the time, day and late night. The ones I've been hearing are:

I Wanna Be Your Lover
Soft and Wet
Adore (this gets a LOT of airplay)
Sexy Dancer

Some of the other stations that are geared more towards a white audience play his songs, but only the Purple Rain stuff.

There's another station here that plays jazz/adult contemporary, etc. I think they'd be really open to playing his newer stuff, but I haven't been able to find an email addy for the station that works and I don't have their number or know anyone that works there.

Are they playing his music in your city?

Hellz no! Unfortunately, if it ain't nelly, it doesn't get played on Phoenix radio stations.

No! It's ridiculous, Philly hardly ever plays Prince, except for one station that has club mixes on weekend nights and they play a lot of remixes.

a smidgeon, but a helluva lot more than my hometown.

I've never been anywhere where I didn't hear his old music at least.

I've heard one station here play LRC, 1999, Let's Go Crazy, and Raspberry Beret.

One other station plays Kiss occasionally.

The saddest thing is, on the radio I hear Chaka Khan's I feel for You, Sinead's NC2U, and Tom Jones' Kiss more than every Prince song combined.

hmmm... I wonder why I don't listen to the radio?
hmmm... I wonder why I have to illegally download mp3s to listen to new music?
hmmm... I wonder why, as a major music buyer, there aren't outlets that are more tailored to my needs?

Wow, that's interesting. I wonder what the difference is then? They say that one major company now controls a lot of the nation's stations. If that's the case, then you'd think you wouldn't hear him anywhere, or hear him everywhere.

What can we do to change this?

very rarely in sydney, australia. the adult contemporary station plays raspberry beret, kiss, cream and when doves cry now and then. today i heard gett off on community radio.

Yes!! I never turn the radio off in my car. The other motning when I turned the car on POPLIFE was playing. I tried to take the cassette out(cuz i don't even like that song) and then I realized it was the radio.
Ergo, Prince gets his airplay here.
All the critics love him in NY!!!

I've heard kiss, adore,and the most beautiful girl in the world.

enjoyniki said:

You don't like Pop Life?!?!?

You're insane. Insane I tells ya. Insane.

"1999"
"Little Red Corvette"
"When Doves Cry"

That's the only ones I hear on the radio station here, but the station is geared more toward 80s hits.

The only thing the "urban" station here plays is Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent.

I understand Sarah Cox played "When doves cry" on Radio 1 the other week. Jo Whiley mentioned the fact that she jumped over the sofa to turn it up and I think she mentioned creaming herself when she heard it.

Jo Whiley is a Fan of the great man.

Respect to Radio 1 for this act alone.

i have only heard 1999 once, and tht was 2 years ago, and i listen to the local radio alot!!

Prince gets LOTS of play on the "Wednesday Nite Mix".
Its on every Wednesday's from 6PM - Midnight (central time) on WRZC-LP 92.3FM in Red Cliff, Wisconsin!!

Live broadcast (only during the duration of the program) can be heard at http://www.shoutcast.com/...ry/?s=wrzc )

If you'd like to make a request to the Dj's of that program, Myself, DJ Uncle Ray or DJ Francois the Chippewa you may do so by emailing wrzcdj@yahoo.com

Later!!

Let's see...

On the radio i've heard:

Kiss
Let's Go Crazy
When Doves Cry
1999
Little Red Corvette
She Loves Me 4 Me (surprisingly)
and...The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

thats it

cool, wot radio station u listen to?

Like the late Scott Larock once said, up in Rochester on DKX, the only Prince they play up here is the old stuff but they did play She Loves Me For Me & Mellow from the Rainbow Children last year!

Not since 1999.. but I must say classic Funk is making a comeback these days...

Bootsy C
George Clinton
James Brown
Rick James
Limbomaniacs

savoirfaire said:

Sorry but there are alot of songs of his I don't like.

If Prince puts out an album, there will be a track played here in NY(yes that does include TRC). And if it is his b-day there will be alot of HIS songs played.

All i hear is 1999 and Doves Cry here,and remixes to them.
[This message was edited Sun Nov 30 14:40:16 PST 2003 by PinkPeach]

Jade said:

$$$

Pay for airplay.

In Singapore
___

Kiss
When Doves Cry
1999
Money Don't Matter 2nite
Cream
Purple Rain
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
___

over and over