What’s New

As we move toward the final reporting week of the year, Sam Fender and Sammy Rae & The Friends top the Most Added list with a four-add tie between their respective singles, “People Watching” and “Thieves.” The rest of the list is a three-add tie between Tunde Adebimpe, Mk.gee, GG Perez, Franz Ferdinand, Deep Sea Diver, Michael Kiwanuka, Sports Team, and Jack White.

 

There are no new titles going for adds next week, but in the new year, keep an eye out for Cameron Winter’s "Love Takes Miles" and Denison Witmer’s "Focus Ring (feat. Sufjan Stevens).” As always, you can find the complete Going For Adds here.

 

Farewell to WZLO

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“While radio across the country has been overtaken by giant corporate broadcasting groups, I’ve loved being a local, independent owner all these years,” said King. “I’ve loved the people who’ve gone to these stations every day and entertained folks, kept the equipment running, and given local advertisers a way to connect with their customers. [My wife] Tabby and I are proud to have been a part of that for more than four decades.”

 

General Manager of Zone Corp, Ken Wood, added that, “Independent, locally owned radio stations used to be the norm. There’re only a few left in Maine, and we’re lucky we had these three as long as we did.”

 

JBE Chart/Adds Schedule 2024/2025

The last JBE Monitored Triple A Airplay charts for 2024, both Tracks and Non-Comm, will be published on Tuesday, December 17, with the first charts of 2025 being published on January 7. While the monitor will continue to aggregate spins and online charts will be available to subscribers through the end of the year, there will be no published chart during the last two weeks of the year and no adds will be accepted after December 16 until January 3. The 2024 year-end charts will be published on Friday, January 3, 2025. Have a great and safe holiday season!

 

Around the Horn

WTTS/Indianapolis is looking ahead to 2025’s Rock on the River, which will feature Alison Krauss & Union Station with Jerry Douglas, reuniting for their first tour in a decade. The event will be held at the Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park on Thursday, August 21. WTTS Rock on the River is sponsored by Arni's Restaurant and a portion of the proceeds supports Indiana Wish, granting wishes for Hoosier Kids… KPND/Spokane’s web stream is still not available. They will return to the chart as soon as they are live online again… WRLT/Nashville is asking listeners for their favorite Lightning 100 tracks of 2024. Fans can take an online survey and vote for the songs that shaped their year. The votes will help create the station’s countdown of the best tracks of 2024. Vote now, then tune in New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to hear the countdown live on 100.1… On a similar note, WMVY/Martha's Vineyard is going to pick The Top 25 Albums Of 2024 and the station is asking listeners to visit mvyradio.org and vote for their top five. MVY will tabulate the votes, and those of the staff, and come up with the “Grand List,” the Top 25 Of 2024, which they will then play during the week after Christmas until January 1. MVY also will draw the name of one lucky voter, who will win a copy of all 25 albums… Matthew Sweet has posted an update on his GoFundMe page after suffering a stroke in October while on tour in Toronto. In a lengthy post, Sweet writes about his time in Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Omaha, and says he was discharged at the beginning of December. Now his wife, Lisa, "has to become my caregiver for the rest of our lives," Sweet wrote. "I’ve lived through the day where I realized I may never play guitar again... I understand now what it means to need to reinvent oneself, when the self you knew before is gone, you have no other choice, you either quit or you keep going and so I feel I must keep going, and I feel a great burden to do so with such incredible support that you, many of whom I do not know, have given me." You can read his full message here... Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard will team up once again as The Swell Season for a 2025 North American tour. The summer leg kicks off July 11 in Vienna, VA and runs through August 2 in Atlanta... James Taylor also will head back on the road this summer for a North American tour. Performing with his “All-Star Band," the run takes place from May 5 in Phoenix until July 1 in Gilford, NH.