Comments on: College Radio Singles Chart

Question: College Radio Singles Chart

hayeled — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:44:11 -0800

Is there an American College Radio singles chart?

Not necessarily singles, but individual tracks that are receiving the most airplay. There was this, but it seems long since abandoned.

To date, all I can find are Album charts.

By: tundro

tundro — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:49:18 -0800

I'm far from a college radio expert (its been about 6 or 7 years since I worked closely with college radio stations), but given what I know college radio is an album format and not a singles format (like commercial radio). Meaning, individual songs aren't added to playlists by the stations music directors but entire albums. So I've never seen an singles chart for college radio. But you may want to check out CMJ (www.cmj.com). They're the leader in college radio charts.

By: ishotjr

ishotjr — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:07:07 -0800

Ditto on what tundro said. When I was in college radio (as recently as 2 years ago), we only charted albums, and only CMJ compiled college radio charts nationally. We kept track of the actual songs played for online playlists on our own website only.

By: ishotjr

ishotjr — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:08:12 -0800

One other thing to notes is that at many college radio stations, the albums are there, but DJs can play whatever they want, so they may not all play the same track of the album, leading to there not being strong singles winners. It's not like with mainstream radio where they are given the track and can only play that track for x amount of months before the new single by that artist comes out.

By: parmanparman

parmanparman — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:42:54 -0800

College Music Journal is what you are after

By: Antidisestablishmentarianist

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:38:01 -0800

New Music Weekly college radio chart

Third link from this google search.

By: Antidisestablishmentarianist

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:40:05 -0800

Oops, sorry, that is an album chart, I misread the question.

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:45:04 -0800

Well, my old stomping ground has their playlists online, along with links to other lists (including albums.)

Perhaps not quite what you wanted, but gives you playlists as a start.

http://www.kvsc.org/

By: radioamy

radioamy — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:25:27 -0800

Just another vote that College Radio is album-based not singles-based.

By: hayeled

hayeled — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:24:35 -0800

it's not fun to favourite* answers you don't like, **regardless of whether they're correct. i was hoping for a bit more of yeah, here it is (link). so the fluffster gets a pale green stipe for at least thowing out some hope in the desolation

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