Eleven XM Satellite Radio music channels will report airplay to Radio & Records and affect the R&R charts starting with the publication’s August 11th issue.
The following channels will report to R&R (with the associated R&R chart in parentheses):
- 20 on 20 (Top 40 Mainstream)
- Flight 26 (Hot AC)
- Ethel (Alternative Rock)
- Squizz (Active Rock)
- The City (Urban)
- Suite 62 (Urban AC)
- Watercolors (Smooth Jazz)
- BPM (Dance)
- The Message (Christian AC)
- Raw (Indicator...Urban)
- XM Cafe (Indicator...AAA)
In addition to these 11 XM channels, R&R is also publishing the latest songs added to the playlists of 25 other XM music channels: The Heat, XMU, Highway 16, X Country, The Loft, Hear Music, Fungus, Liquid Metal, The Village, Real Jazz, U-Pop, The System, The Move, The Torch, The Flow, The Blend, Spirit, The Verge, Enlighten, The Joint, XM Chill, Fuego, Viva, Caliente and Aguila.
Billboard magazine’s parent company VNU recently acquired R&R, which has been combined with Billboard Radio Monitor.
This seems to help the record labels, why would they do this?
Do you think they are reaching an agreement or is XM just kissing ass?
That's weird--R&R already reports the spin count on those channels--That has how we all know the Steve "The FM Hack" Kingston is overplaying songs on Ethel--
JG ,
i disagree , i think although hit songs get a little more play , the over all variety of music on the channel has gotten alot better since Kingston took over .