Why do radio stations keep playing the same stuff over and over? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by FreddiesLantern@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This has been on my mind for years now:

Why do most radio stations insist on playing the same selection of songs over and over?

I imagine it must be a copyrights thing? Pay for usage of this particular catalogue for a year?

Don’t those DJs get absolutely sick of it after a while?

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[-] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

My wife and I went for a drive the other day and whatever station I was on was playing songs I loved from the 90s. And then I checked the station. Classic rock.

Then today the faint came on my Spotify and even though I listen to them quite a bit it suddenly hit me that I discovered them during the height of limewire, about 6 years after I graduated highschool so I still consider them new. Looked up when their song came out. 25 years ago. Fuck!!!

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