How Many Currents? How Many Recurrents?

> For a country station, how many currents would you rotate?

30 to 35, depending on the flow of product.
(i hate calling records ‘product’)

> For a country station, how many recurrents would you rotate and how far back on those recurrents would you go?
>
……either 19, if i’m scheduling 1 an hour
or 38, if i’m scheduling 2 an hour
with this plan, each song rotates thru the five
dayparts evenly; playing in each of the other four before
it repeats in the first one.
i keep things in Recurrent until another song
drops out of Currents and takes it’s place. i don’t
always drop the ‘oldest’ recurrent to do this.
for example keith urban’s/ Blue Ain’t Your Color is
still monstrously popular. the stats on it show it
will clearly become an all-time classic. the way
it’s going, it could stay in recurrent for a long time more.


posted 8.17.17