Originally Posted by WBOY:
“"Playing the same music"? Hardly. The amount of crossover tracks are very minimal.
There's nothing wrong a few of these songs from time to time. Research shows that the average Heart listener doesn't want to be considered old and would like to stay on top of what's current. They want feel good songs to sing along to. Gold is too old for them.
Throwing in the odd 60's sing-along-song here and keeps it familar while at the same time keeping it current. Lite FM New York play Bruno Mars - So does that mean Z100 can't?”
You say minimal, but if the info at another website is correct, 8% of Heart music is played ob Gold, or about one in 12 songs. So if someone has Heart on at work, that' s every hour they are hearing one 'Gold' song on average.
But just looking at the the last ten songs played here on local Heart, and you an see why people may feel the crossover is more.
Can You Feel It The Jacksons 1980
Cooler Than Me Mike Posner
Hollywood Micheal Buble
Alenjandro Lady Ga Ga
Losing My Religion R.E.M.
Don't Stop Believin Journey 1981
Grenade Bruno Mars
Famous Scouting For Girls
Only Girl (In The World) Rihanna
You're The One That I Want John Travolta/Oliva Newton John 1978
So as a whole 1 in 12 is not a high crossover.
But with three songs all over 30 years old here, can you see why they called 'Gold' tracks, even if they are not all played on a station called Gold?