On our two Old School R&B Stations here in Philly here are the songs you'll hear most:

Encore - Cheryl Lynn

Atomic Dog - George Clinton

Any Stevie Wonder hit from 1976 - 1985(They rarely play any of the good album cuts off those albums!!)

Fire And Desire - Rick James & Teena Marie

Square Biz - Teena Marie

Coldblooded - Rick James

Tons of 1976 - 1991 Michael Jackson, too many songs to name, lol!

Watching You - Slave

Between The Sheets - The Isley Brothers

Reasons - Earth, Wind, And Fire

I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince

Groove Me - Guy

This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan

Poision - BBD

Love Should've Brought You Home - Toni Braxton

Just about anything by Creedence Clearwater Revival. They were a decent enough band but "classic rock" radio completely overplay them and now I can't stand them.

My fellow Canadians will appreciate this one: Bryan Adams! Ugh! I never listen to the radio voluntarily but there are situations where it can't be avoided and it seems like every gosh darn time I hear the local radio station they are playing something by Bryan Adams. He has had a lot of hits, particularly here in Canada, but I don't need to hear the same ten-fifteen songs over and over. Don't be so lazy, if you have to play the same artists over and over dig a little deeper into their catalogues and give us something different.

TORN by fucking Natalie Imbruglia

Also Young Hearts Run Free by Candi Staton. That's guaranteed to make me run for the off button.

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Michael Jackson - Bille Jean, Don't stop til you get enough

Prince - 1999

Madonna - like a prayer, into the groove

Whitney - how will i know, i want to dance with somebody

Aerosmith - I don't want to miss a thing

Robin S - show me love (well it was re-released this year)

mancabdriver said:

Robin S - show me love (well it was re-released this year)

AGAIN? Is that the 4th time already?

Des'ree - You Gotta Be

Cee Cee Peniston - Finally

Gunsnhalen said:

We all know some songs that are still overplayed years later as if they are a new song

Some i almost can't stand anymore

What are some you guys & gals hear a lot?

A-Ha- Take On Me

Modern English- Melt With You

Whitney Houston- I Will Always Love You

Led Zeppelin- Black Dog & Stairway To Heaven

R. Kelly- I Believe I Can Fly

Journey- Don't Stop Believing

Aerosmith- Dream On, Walk This Way, Dude Looks Like A Lady

Green Day- Time Of Your Life

Mariah Carey- We Belong Together

Anything By the Eagles

Usher- Yeah

Anything By Michael Jackson

Culture Club- Karma Chamelon

Wham!- Careless Whisper... and around this time of year Last Christmas

Stevie Wonder- Superstition

Guns N Roses- Sweet Child ''O'' Mine

Alicia Keys- Fallin

Heatwave- Always And Forever

Madonna- Take A Bow & Like A Prayer

Gunshalen baby MJ gets heavily played even his Jacksons and Jackson 5 material I have not a clue what Lili is talking about

iaminparties said:

Montel Jordan-This is how we do it

That song NEVER gets old especially at the club

My sister was linking me to "All The Things She Said" by Simple Minds and I realize I never hear that song anymore, more likely "Alive And Kicking" and MOST likely "Don't You (Forget About Me)".

I think that's the case for a lot of these acts. They had other great singles but radio only returns to the triple-A rotation #1 hit.

mjscarousal said:

Gunshalen baby MJ gets heavily played even his Jacksons and Jackson 5 material I have not a clue what Lili is talking about

Besides 4 hits No. 1 Jackson 5 and Ben personally I have not heard a song on the radio of little Michael .... I cant imagine that often (which asks this thread) to rotate the songs on the radio of his first 4 albums.
Maybe on the rnb stations or any highly specialized, but not exactly central.
Although, being in Europe, it's difficult to discuss about airplay in the U.S.

Also, I dont believe that to be with all his catalog of songs in the category of "so overplayed, that you just cant stand them any more" - an honor .... it is rather a shortage!

Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

Isn't She Lovely? - Stevie Wonder

Come Together - The Beatles

Tear The Roof Off - Parliament

Super Freak - Rick James

U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (I had to listen to a store play only this song over and over again in China for 40 minutes!!!!!!!!)

Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor

Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John And Kiki Dee

Heroes - David Bowie

G3000 said:

My Top 5

1. Always and Forever - Heatwave

2. Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn

3. Best Of My Love - The Emotions

4. September - EWF

5. As - Stevie Wonder

I actually like those songs but I agree,they are OVERPLAYED.'Always And Forever" should be retired from Old School R&B radio stations!! They have completely worn it out!! It seems like they play it more these days than they ever did in 1977.

LiLi1992 said:

mjscarousal said:

Gunshalen baby MJ gets heavily played even his Jacksons and Jackson 5 material I have not a clue what Lili is talking about

Besides 4 hits No. 1 Jackson 5 and Ben personally I have not heard a song on the radio of little Michael .... I cant imagine that often (which asks this thread) to rotate the songs on the radio of his first 4 albums.
Maybe on the rnb stations or any highly specialized, but not exactly central.
Although, being in Europe, it's difficult to discuss about airplay in the U.S.

Also, I dont believe that to be with all his catalog of songs in the category of "so overplayed, that you just cant stand them any more" - an honor .... it is rather a shortage!

I haven't heard Farewell My Summer Love on the radio since it was originally out. The Mike solo albums on Motown weren't really all that big. They had been out of print, until Motown released a compilation a couple of years ago called Hello World. Occasionally, the soul oldies station will play I Wanna Be Where You Are, but that's it. I never hear Ben at all. I did hear the version from The Jacksons live album in a grocery store awhile back.

"I Still Believe" by Brenda K Starr

"Let Me Be The One" by Stevie B

"In A Dream My Love" by Raquel Karen

It is hard to go through a day in midcoast maine without hearing Faithfully aat least once

Where yawl live at? Are we speaking of free radio, the net, or what? Because they stopped playing those songs you've mentioned in Chicago 25 years ago. The ony time I ever heard anything from Michael Jackson on the radio in a couple of decades is when he died. Radio sucks, most net radio isn't much to sing about in the US either... that's why I do Youtube, 8tracks and some selected net radio apps from Apple.

TD3 said:

Where yawl live at? Are we speaking of free radio, the net, or what? Because they stopped playing those songs you've mentioned in Chicago 25 years ago. The ony time I ever heard anything from Michael Jackson on the radio in a couple of decades is when he died. Radio sucks, most net radio isn't much to sing about in the US either... that's why I do Youtube, 8tracks and some selected net radio apps from Apple.

Me it's Music Choice. Every time I used to go on Classic R&B, they would play the same damn tracks. Thankfully YouTube and 8Tracks don't delve into that similarity breeds contempt crap.

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TD3 said:

Where yawl live at? Are we speaking of free radio, the net, or what? Because they stopped playing those songs you've mentioned in Chicago 25 years ago. The ony time I ever heard anything from Michael Jackson on the radio in a couple of decades is when he died. Radio sucks, most net radio isn't much to sing about in the US either... that's why I do Youtube, 8tracks and some selected net radio apps from Apple.

Urban Adult Contemporary radio.

Where I live, these are some of the overplayed older songs:

"Summer of 69" Bryan Adams

"Livin' On A Prayer" Bon Jovi

"Like A Prayer" and "Holiday" Madonna

"I Will Always Love You" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" Whitney Houston

"Ants Marching" and "Crash Into Me" Dave Matthews Band

TD3 said:

Where yawl live at? Are we speaking of free radio, the net, or what? Because they stopped playing those songs you've mentioned in Chicago 25 years ago. The ony time I ever heard anything from Michael Jackson on the radio in a couple of decades is when he died. Radio sucks, most net radio isn't much to sing about in the US either... that's why I do Youtube, 8tracks and some selected net radio apps from Apple.

Good Ol' free FM Radio TD3! I listen to it mostly while I'm at work

lazycrockett said:

That Dawson's Creek song.

God i hate that song!

i'll add...

Take That - 'back for good'

Well in the UK - doubt it gets airplay anywhere else.

Shard said:

Where I live, these are some of the overplayed older songs:

"Summer of 69" Bryan Adams

"Livin' On A Prayer" Bon Jovi

"Like A Prayer" and "Holiday" Madonna

"I Will Always Love You" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" Whitney Houston

"Ants Marching" and "Crash Into Me" Dave Matthews Band

I hear that song on the radio quite A LOT.

mancabdriver said: