Top 4 Overplayed.

Why. why. WHY. are the top 4 most requested songs on radio stations the 4 most overplayed?

I mean, I get the obvious. But what I am saying is... why are you calling in and requesting songs that you will hear in no more than 2 minutes? By the time you get in on the radio station, guess what? They just played your song. But you didn't hear it, because you had the radio turned down. Because you have to when you are calling into the radio station. Congratulations. You're an idiot.

So I guess my issue is I want to hear the top 4 interesting requested songs. I want to hear some throwbacks people. I want them to be like "Alright these are our top 4 requested songs" and Sean Kingston's Fire Burning comes on. Yes, hell yes, who all called in to hear that song?! Epic. I liked that song as well, good choice.

I mean, I know when IIIII called in to request a song, (that is not infamous among my friends) it was not an overplayed song. It was popular yes, but still had few and far between plays. It was a once every 3-4 hours. Not a once an hour. But that was when there was a lot of music coming out.

I guess I have no real way to summarize this. I just really don't like hearing top 4, top 5 lists and then after they are done playing those... they play them again. Because they are in the loop. Ridiculousness.

Now that I reread my work, I bet those radio stations don't even track the most requested songs. They just get lazy and just play the most popular songs out because it seems the most logical. Well I'm just making things up at this point but just remember, requesting songs is because you DON'T get to hear them every hour.

I may just be bitter because I once got suckered into announcing one of those lists. When I called to request a song.

Ring-a-ling,
Em