sosgemini said:

Besides it being Madonna...this is the reason I'm picking it up.

BAY AREA FANS


92.7 just played "Hung Up" 8 times in a row and 97.3 is playing it every hour so toon in. This is amazing.

variety1317 said:

Must be nice. Detroit fans....do you think 95.5 or any station around here will play it?

Tessa said:

Though I think I Ellen would win the dance-off with Madge's latest dance "moves"--if not Elaine.

variety1317 said:

Playing it now!!!!

OK I so LOVE LOVE LOVE the new song. I can't stop playing it. I played it for a friend who used to worship the woman and is not so hot on her and even she is feeling the love again.

I have a feeling all the dance stations will be plying this this weekend.

It's nice to see radio giving Madonna love again after the apparent American Life boycott.

I'd love another top 10 for our lady.

superspaceboy said:

Where are you? What kind of station is playing it?

VinnyM27 said:

Bay area. I just turned on 97.3 and there it was. Station called Alice...It plays a little of everything though they tend to cater to the upper 20's crowd. Coldplay played right after Madonna. It's a regular pop station

the other station mentioned is your all dance radio station. I haven't heard it yet on that station.

superspaceboy said:

97.3 is playing this regularly

superspaceboy said:

See, I don't think there are any of those left here. THere are soft pop/rock stations, there is that not very alternative rock stations (lots of Googoo Dolls, Avril and surpringsly they'll play a few of Madonna's newer songs but nothing newer than "Don't Tell Me"), and then the only Top 40 station nearly only plays hip-hop (with the occassional Green Day or Weezer song), and now has been adding "classic" late ninties, early 2000 tracks by "artists" like Ja Rule and Puffy.

NO real format for Madonna, although 95.5 (the Top 40 station) is a possiblity.

endorphin74 said:

I work in top 40 radio and this is a HOME RUN top5 easy

endorphin74 said:

I think it'll be okay at Top 40. Adult Contemporary... well, it has a shot. Could this be Madonna's "Believe"? That song wasn't exactly your standard AC fare, but this may be the phase in Madonna's career where Madonna's radio power base may be switching over to AC, even when she puts out dance songs.

I foresee that this song marks the end of hip-hip. Finally we'll get rid of 50 cent and that horrid junk that is hip-hop!!!

MikeMatronik said:

I wouldn't go that far but it would be nice wouldn't it.

MikeMatronik said:

How?

I really want to hear this song. I love the snippet that I hear in that Motorola commericial. I have a feeling that I might really like this album if what I hear about this CD is the truth. Could someone orgnote me please?
[Edited 10/15/05 19:38pm]

Thank you for the music!
How Madonna's new single will give Abba their greatest-ever hit
From an article by Chris Hastings, The Telegraph

"In 1979, while she was a struggling singer who had to pose naked to make ends meet, they were the world's biggest band. Now Madonna is set to give Abba what is likely to be the biggest-selling record of their career.
At 5pm GMT tomorrow, the American singer's new single, Hung Up, which heavily samples Abba's 1979 hit Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, will premiere simultaneously on national radio stations around the world.
The broadcast is part of a multi-million pound marketing strategy designed to re-establish Madonna as the Queen of Pop. But the sales of the single, which is expected to top the charts around the world, could also generate millions of pounds for Abba's songwriters, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
The pair agreed to let Madonna use their most famous disco hit after striking a lucrative copyright agreement that observers say will give them a significant share of royalties from airplay.

"Gimme, Gimme, Gimme is the essence of the new song and we have agreed to split the copyright with Madonna and her co-writer," Andersson said. He declined to go into details and insisted that financial concerns were not the primary motive for the decision to give Madonna permission to use the track.
"We get so many requests from people wanting to use our tracks but we normally say 'no'. This is only the second time we have given permission.We said 'yes' this time because we admire Madonna so much and always have done. She has got guts and has been around for 21 years. That is not bad going."

Andersson said he thought the new single was "wonderful" and joked it was his favourite Madonna song to date. "Hung Up is really good. If it wasn't any good we would not have said 'yes'. It is a wonderful track: 100 per cent solid pop music."

Madonna, who has enjoyed 54 British top 10 hits including 10 number ones, has sold more singles in this country than Abba.
Hung Up is regarded as one of the most commercial songs of her career and will easily outsell the 1979 original which reached Number Three in the British charts but was not given an American release.

The worldwide broadcast of the single is part of an ambitious strategy designed to re-establish the 47-year-old mother-of-two as the most successful act in the world. Madonna is to spend an unprecedented £5 million buying up television, billboard and cinema slots for her new album Confessions On A Dancefloor, which will be released on November 14.

The publicity drive also involves ground-breaking deals with firms such as Orange, MTV, Virgin, Vodaphone and Apple.
The companies have become virtual partners in the album's release in exchange for the rights to provide audio and visual downloads of the singer's new material and her huge back catalogue of hits.
John Reid, the head of marketing at Warner Music, said: "Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed."

Madonna's last album, American Life, which was released in 2003, sold four million copies and was the lowest selling release of her career.
Hung Up's radio debut will mark the first time the record has been heard in its entirety, but it will, in fact, be just the latest stage in a sophisticated campaign. The song has been available as a mobile phone ringtone since September 19 - the first time a star of Madonna's stature has released material as a ringtone before an actual record.

Madonna's recent riding accident would appear not to have reduced the number of her planned public appearances. She has declared herself fit and well to perform Hung Up at the MTV Music Awards in Lisbon on November 3, and she is believed to be planning performances in Britain, America, Japan, Holland and Germany."

i think most Clear Channel Stations will be playing this. it'll stand out next to the hip hop. which means it won't be forgotten easily.

Rumors are flying that she will be PERFORMING on TRL tomorrow.

ehuffnsd said:

I'll probably miss it when they play it...I have an idea that Clear Channel will play it once and then trash it in the morning (they've done this before with Janet and others who weren't hip hop enough).

VinnyM27 said:

nah, they'll be sticking with it. i believe that's why Madonna worked with Clear Channel on her last tour.

Tessa said:

But that involves a total rehaul of radio (since Clear Channel is radio), which has shown no love to dance music! We'll have to wait and hear....

VinnyM27 said:

Dance Madonna= money
money= good

they played toxic they will place this

I think "Hung Up" has a chance on Top 40. Madonna's still a VERY marketable name(not to mention that she more than redeemed herself from the American Life fiasco with the Reinvention tour).

Remember "Music"? That song sounded nothing like the NSYNC and Backstreet Boys sound that dominated radio at the time, yet it became her biggest hit in years.

The way I see it is like this: If Cher, whom by 1998 had become a cultural relic and was subject to ridicule thanks to those damn infomercials, was able to score a massive hit with "Believe", than Madonna has a VERY GOOD chance.

BTW, "Hung Up" is already hitting the dance charts hadr and is surpassing the number of spins that "Hollywood" had- ALL BEFORE THE SINGLE HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN RELEASED.

ok, after listening for the billionth time...I think the song's weakness is in the verses. Too much "time goes" slowly," not enough other content.

the royal family

newskin69 said:

At the time of "Music", dance music wasn't unheard of on radio. Now it's been all but banished. Maybe it's because there are no pop stations left. Over here, dance music doesn't get a chance unless it's disco (the light stations like to have flash back weekends).

VinnyM27 said:

I know Chicago and San Fran have all dance radio stations. They suck...but they're there.