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A Great Country Song Makes You Feel – Are You “Feeling” Ken Burns’ “Country Music?”
- 09/23/2019
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio, country radio programming
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As I write this there are four episodes yet to air. But even at the halfway point, it has been hard to watch “Country Music” and not feel something. But that’s how a show about country music should be, right? Because a great country song makes you feel. The Feel Sometimes a great country song
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A&O&B’s Year End Music Rewind: Was Country Music in 2018 A Bit Squirrelly?
- 12/18/2018
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio programming, radio programming
Country music in 2018 was a mixed bag. Some might say it was even a bit squirrelly. But before we get to all of that, here are the Top 15 songs for 2018 based on A&O&B’s research scores and airplay recommendations: RANK ARTIST TITLE Final LAL Callout Final Positive 1 Brown, Kane Heaven 1
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COUNTRY MUSIC HALFWAY THROUGH 2018: LISTENERS SAY “BETTER”
- 07/27/2018
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio programming
“Country music is getting better” is a sentiment I’ve been hearing more of these days. And it’s not just coming from Program Directors. It’s coming from listeners, too. Earlier this year when we presented Roadmap 2018 at A&O&B’s annual pre-CRS seminar in Nashville, the percent of respondents who felt that in 2017 “country music had
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2016: Country’s Top 10 Songs, Top 5 Artists, and 2017 Action Items
- 12/20/2016
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, radio programming
We’ve made a list and checked it twice (actually, it’s more like a dozen times). The “list” is our annual A&O&B Top Songs and Artists of the Year list for the year 2016. Each year we create our research-driven list using a formula heavily weighted by our online and callout data, and data rankings for