Monday, August 24, 2009

Alternative Alternative Airplay Chart Pt 2

So far 34 stations have been selected, mostly low hanging fruit. Now it becomes trickier.

The next group (Group 8) are the Generic Alternative Stations. Two of them brag about having no DJs and a third had no DJs until recently. Their playlists are safe and familiar, but definitely not active rock. So they're in.

WMRQ -- Waterbury, CT
WBOS -- Boston, MA
WKRK -- Cleveland OH

Now comes the rest of the alternative stations -- I culled out all the ones that heavily leaned active rock In other words if Godsmack, Seether and Shinedown were all in your top 10 then you were gone. This is what I came up with

WLUM -- Milwaukee WI
KROX -- Austin TX
KXRK -- Salt Lake City UT
KRZQ -- Reno NV
WSTW-HD2 -- Wilmington DE
WNXX -- Baton Rogue, LA
KFMA -- Tuscon, AZ
WKZQ -- Myrtle Beach SC
WDYL -- Richmond VA
WWCT -- Peoria IL

The last group is rock-leaning Adult Alternative stations WXRV and WRLT are the outer limit of includable stations. If Eric Hutchison, Adele and Rob Thomas are all in your Top 10,then you're out. KFOG, WMMM WMVY and KGSR are all examples of AAA stations that do not play enough alternative rock to be considered here. This leaves the following stations:

WWMM Birmingham AL
KPRI San Diego, CA
CIDR Windsor ON/Detroit MI
KMTT Seattle WA
KMMS Bozeman MT
WRLT Nashville TN
WXPK White Plains, NY
WXRV Boston MA
WFIV Knoxville TN

I would have liked to include more Canadian stations, but airplay lists of individual stations is just about impossible to come by.

So here's our ignagural chart

1. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam 727
2. 21 Guns -- Green Day 506
3. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand 496
4. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups 486
5. Notion -- Kings of Leon 475
6. Uprising -- Muse 417
7. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon 413
8. New Divide -- Linkin Park 400
9. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant 397
10. Help I'm Alive -- Metric 386
11. Ignorance -- Paramore 382
12. 1901 -- Phoenix 362
13. Savior -- Rise Against 299
14. I've Got Friends -- Machester Orchestra 288
15. You Never Know -- Wilco 286
16. Why I Am -- Dave Matthews Band 268
17. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight -- U2 244
18. Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin 240
19. Jars -- Chevelle 192
20. Kids -- MGMT 183
21. Little Bribes -- Death Cab For Cutie 176
22. She's A Genius -- Jet 163
23. Wishing Well -- Airborne Toxic Event 158
24. One Day -- Matishyahu 157
25. Fugitive -- David Grey 149
26. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxic Event 137
27. Funny the Way It Is -- Dave Matthews Band 136
28. You're Going Down -- Sick Puppies 124
29. It's Alright -- 311 120
30. Life In Technicolor -- Coldplay 111
31. Got Nuffin -- Spoon 110
32. Fireflies -- Owl City 106
33. Back Against the Wall -- Cage the Elephant 104
34. Two Weeks -- Grizzly Bear 100
35. Oscar Wilde -- Company of Thieves 98
36. Backwards Down the Number Line -- Phish 89
37. Sound of Madness -- Shinedown 84
38. Sugarfoot -- Black Joe & the Honeybears 82
39. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains 80
40. Say Hey (I Love You) 72
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