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Originally Posted by flameswin
Just to expand on the X929 thing, as I made me myself curious. If you look on their latest "playlist" page, there's 9 songs (some played twice) in their current playlist for today that are also played on AMP 90.3 and Vibe 98.5.
Maybe I'm getting out of touch as I get older, but imo if you're going to be a rock alternative station, you shouldn't be playing that many songs in a day that overlap with two top 40 pop stations.
Lorde - Royals
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive X2
Lorde - Team X2
Foster The People - Coming Of Age X2
Passion Pit - Take A Walk
Capital Cities - Safe And Sound
Imagine Dragons - Demons
fun. Feat. Janelle Monae - We Are Young
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I think part of the problem is that "rock music" just doesn't have as much mindshare as it used to, particularly with the 18-25 crowd. How many large scale EDM (dance music) festivals did Calgary/Edmonton have the last few summers that stations like x92.9/Cjay had nothing to do with?
So I really think it's a matter of the "rock" slice of the market pie getting quite a bit smaller... and blander in the process. Use to be Cjay could play Nickelback/ACDC all day while x92.9 could do Queens of the Stone Age/Against Me and both would still draw a reasonably sized listening audience.
But as the rock audience got smaller, the gap between their playlist got smaller and we ended up with groups Imagine Dragons/Mumford and Sons filling in the "rock" gap.
Or, basically this happened to x92.9, and they floundered.
