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British Public Tallies Up Favorite Christmas Singles, Can't Account For Taste
A recent MSN Music poll revealed the UK's most popular Christmas number one singles, a list that includes songs by Elvis, The Beatles, and Michael Jackson—although none of them made the top five.
Ken Barnes' latest analysis of the RIAA's gold and platinum awards reveals that one holiday staple is hoping for a Christmas miracle: "Can Mannheim Steamroller's [certified platinum] Christmas Song do the trick? It's currently at just 214,000, so it's got a lot of ground to make up. In its favor, though, it will probably improve on its weekly sales rate (last week it sold 62,000), and it may be sold in a lot of places SoundScan doesn't reach (chimneys). For all I know, they may have shipped a million copies out there anticipating demand." In a world blanketed with all-holiday-all-the-time stations, it's hard for me to see demand for the Steamroller's Christmastastic bombast, but if Clear Channel's overlords are to be believed, I'm probably in the minority. [Listen Up]
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So just as quickly as two Chicago radio stations prepared to battle each other with competing all-holiday playlists nearly two months before Christmas, WCKG decided to "continue running highlight clips of afternoon star Steve Dahl." But in case you thought this swift change of plans on the part of WCKG might mean radio stations are rethinking the season-long holiday-saturation format, the bean counters at Clear Channel, which owns WLIT, want to assure you that if you hate Christmas music you're shit out of luck for the forseeable future.
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Clear Channel On Listeners Who Hate Christmas Music: "Those People Don't Exist"
So just as quickly as two Chicago radio stations prepared to battle each other with competing all-holiday playlists nearly two months before Christmas, WCKG decided to "continue running highlight clips of afternoon star Steve Dahl." But in case you thought this swift change of plans on the part of WCKG might mean radio stations are rethinking the season-long holiday-saturation format, the bean counters at Clear Channel, which owns WLIT, want to assure you that if you hate Christmas music you're shit out of luck for the forseeable future.
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Kansas City residents aren't the only poor suckers caught in the merry crossfire, as two more radio stations have gone to war against each other via all-Christmas playlists. This time, Chicago's WLIT rushed to get its Christmas offerings on the air before dawn this morning, almost a week ahead of schedule, in order to beat WCKG, a former talk station looking to cash in on big holiday ratings. And who loses in this struggle? Only Grinches, of course.
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Radio Stations Across The Country Continue Battling Each Other With Jingle Bell Rock
Kansas City residents aren't the only poor suckers caught in the merry crossfire, as two more radio stations have gone to war against each other via all-Christmas playlists. This time, Chicago's WLIT rushed to get its Christmas offerings on the air before dawn this morning, almost a week ahead of schedule, in order to beat WCKG, a former talk station looking to cash in on big holiday ratings. And who loses in this struggle? Only Grinches, of course.
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Kansas City's KCKC flipped its format to all-Christmas music today, despite it being a) 60 degrees and sunny in the area and b) October. The switch is the latest chapter in a holiday-music rivalry KCKC has with fellow soft-rock trafficker KUDL; the Kansas City Star news item announcing the format switch was accompanied by a chart outlining just how obscenely early in the year each station made the soft-rock to snow-rock change. (Last year, KUDL went all-Christmas on Nov. 1; presumably the KCKC higher-ups thought they would fake everyone out by switching today.) And just when you think it can't get any sillier, KCKC's Wikipedia page further fleshes out how the two stations have engaged in Christmas warfare over the years:
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Kansas City Soft-Rock Stations Acting Like Christmas Creeps
Kansas City's KCKC flipped its format to all-Christmas music today, despite it being a) 60 degrees and sunny in the area and b) October. The switch is the latest chapter in a holiday-music rivalry KCKC has with fellow soft-rock trafficker KUDL; the Kansas City Star news item announcing the format switch was accompanied by a chart outlining just how obscenely early in the year each station made the soft-rock to snow-rock change. (Last year, KUDL went all-Christmas on Nov. 1; presumably the KCKC higher-ups thought they would fake everyone out by switching today.) And just when you think it can't get any sillier, KCKC's Wikipedia page further fleshes out how the two stations have engaged in Christmas warfare over the years:
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