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Country Fans’ Love for Music and Artists On Display at CMA Fest (Again!)
- 06/11/2018
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio programming
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It could have been just another Uber ride to the airport. Instead it turned into a wide-ranging, fun, and insightful conversation between Donnie, the driver, and me. As we wove our way around the Nashville streets closed for CMA Fest, Donnie revealed that he had recently retired from his long career of “driving Ms. McEntire.”
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Pair Of Threes: Top Country Songs/Artists/Trends of ’17 and Top 3 Music Recommendations for ’18
- 12/21/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio programming
If you like lists, this is your time of the year. It seems like there’s a “Best of 2017” list for just about everything. For those of you who have enjoyed our annual Top Country Songs / Artists / Trends of the Year posts, we trust you’ll enjoy 2017’s at least as much. Plus, looking
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Get Your Geek On: Three “Doodle Charts” to Power Up Your Next Meeting
- 08/23/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming, management, radio programming
Graphs and charts can help you make a point, particularly if you want to show the relationship between things. They can help simplify complex data and ideas, reduce noise, add interest, and can help the receiver focus on your message. There plenty of software tools that produce great visuals: Excel, Numbers, Venngage, Google Sheets, Plot.ly
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9 Lessons from Baseball that Can Help Your Radio Station
- 04/01/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming, radio programming
Baseball likes the number 9: 9 players in the batting order, 9 innings, 9 fielding positions, great players who wore the number 9 like Ted Williams, Roger Marris and Carlos Guillen. So in honor of Opening Day 2017, here are 9 ways baseball can inspire you to do your best radio. And, be warned, we
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Some Satisfying News: Country Radio Satisfaction Levels Tick Up
- 03/20/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming
by Mike O’Malley First, “Thank you!” to all who were a part of A&O&B’s 23rd annual Pre-CRS Seminar Wednesday, February 22nd, in Nashville. From our attendees to our presenters to our sponsor BMLG – we appreciate each of you! As we’ve done for the past 12 years, we presented some top-line data from our
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Country: Jumping the Shark and Growing the Beard?
- 06/13/2016
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio programming
We may look back on last week as the time when country “jumped the shark.” There was Pitbull (@Pitbull),Cheap Trick, Fifth Harmony and Pharrell (you could make a case for Pharrell given his collaboration with Little Big Town) on a country awards show. Then there were releases to country radio that had some programmers feeling the pop envelope had been pushed too
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Satisfaction and Switching – Listener Hot and Cold Buttons and the Impact of Switchers
- 02/04/2016
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming
Two of the many topics we track in Roadmap – A&O&B’s annual “state of country” online perceptual study – are country listeners’ 1) degree of station satisfaction and 2) switching behavior. As we shared last year in our Pre-CRS seminar, the three-year overall satisfaction level with the country stations in our survey has been consistently
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A&O&B’s Annual Top 10 for the Year: The Top Songs and Artists of 2015
- 12/18/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming
If you need a break from your Christmas shopping list, try this list: A&O&B’s annual Top 10 Songs and Artists of the Year. Each December we compile our research-driven list from our online and call-out data and data rankings for every song we played and tested for at least six weeks during the previous 12
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One More Year-End List: Country’s Top 10 for 2014
- 12/22/2014
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming
This time of the year we’re tripping over “End of the Year” lists. Still, we’re pleased to add one more – A&O&B’s annual “Top Songs of the Year.” Each year we publish for clients the final research-driven rankings of every song we added over the previous 12 months. There were 88 in all in 2014.
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Tale of Two Bar Graphs: Country Shares and Music Scores
- 10/31/2014
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming
If you want to see just how long the current ‘up’ ratings cycle has been going on for country, this just-released Nielsen bar chart and This Week In Music article affords a nice 10,000 foot view: According to Nielsen, country is the “top national format among Millennials (aged 18-34) and Generation X’ers (aged 35-49). And audience