Country Radio Welcomes Taylor Swift Back with Open Arms: ‘It’s the Easiest Programming Decision of the Year’

It’s been 13 years since Taylor Swift reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. But her absence in the top ...
The Washington Post

Beyoncé has a country hit. How will country radio handle that?

NASHVILLE — As the country radio programmers settled into their seats bright and early on a recent Friday morning for a presentation in a hotel ballroom at the annual Country Radio Seminar, they were ...
Pitchfork

8 Song of the Summer Contenders, According to the Radio Programmers Who Choose Them

In theory, we each define our own songs of the summer. In practice, for better but sometimes for worse, certain songs will be as constant between Memorial Day and Labor Day as the smell of ozone and ...
Wired

Radio Sings Self-Censorship Tune

Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." They are rock classics, heard on radio stations across the country for more than two decades. But now they're on a list of ...