Following the demise of Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame drummer Charlie Watts on Tuesday, rock radio stations nationwide honored the backbeat of the “World’s Greatest Rock N’ Roll Band” by taking part in music from the Rolling Stones in huge portions.
Some stations performed prolonged units of Stones music, whereas others, like Meruelo Media traditional rock KLOS Los Angeles (95.5) went wall-to-wall with the band’s music. KLOS PD Keith Cunningham tells Inside Radio that Matt Pinfield, who hosts “KLOS New & Improved,” checked in with noon persona Marci Wiser. Pinfield was the final persona to interview the complete band. KLOS performed Stones music all day, following the information that broke throughout “The Heidi and Frank Present.”
The airplay on KLOS, WAXQ New York, WDRV Chicago and others, offered a large spike in airplay of the band’s music. In keeping with knowledge from Mediabase, Rolling Stones songs had 5,053 performs on Tuesday, Aug. 24. That’s greater than six occasions the variety of spins (796) acquired in all the week earlier than (Aug. 17-23).
“Begin Me Up,” the primary monitor from the band’s “Tattoo You” album, which coincidentally was launched 40 years in the past yesterday, had probably the most spins with 504 all through the day, 358 of which occurred after 12pm. The information of Watts’ demise on the age of 80 got here simply earlier than 1pm (ET).
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was the second most performed tune by Mediabase-monitored stations on Tuesday with 381 performs, adopted by “Beast of Burden” (330); “Paint It Black” (320); “Miss You” (307); “Gimme Shelter” (295); “Honky Tonk Ladies” (264); “Sympathy for the Satan” (233); “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (213); and “It’s Solely Rock N’ Roll (However I Like It)” (200). Much like “Satisfaction,” all the prime performed songs from the band had most of their spins within the afternoon and night hours.
