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BDS measures actual airplay by monitoring radio stations continuously with computers that "listen for the unique 'audio fingerprint' of each song and register a detection every time a song is played." [2] One of the first noticeable effects of the change in methodology was that there tended to be less turnover of the top songs. Before the ...
WBBM-FM (96.3 MHz, "B96") is a rhythmic hot adult contemporary radio station in Chicago, Illinois. It is owned by Audacy, Inc. The station has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 3,300 watts, broadcasting from a transmitter atop the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). [8] The studios and offices are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the ...
WBMX. / 41.878917°N 87.635611°W / 41.878917; -87.635611. WBMX (104.3 FM, "104.3 Jams") is a commercial radio station in Chicago, Illinois, serving the Chicago metropolitan area and Northwest Indiana. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. and airs a classic hip hop radio format . WBMX's studios and offices are located at Two Prudential ...
1999. 2000s →. Mariah Carey amassed the most number-one hits (14 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (60 weeks) during the 1990s. Carey is also the only artist to spend at least one week at the summit of the chart in each year of the decade. Boyz II Men remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart ...
Chicago hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the late 1980s in the form of hip house. [1] It became commonplace for serious rappers to cite the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim organization headquartered in Chicago, as a lyrical and ideological influence in the 1980s and 1990s, a rap theme often resulting in controversy. [2]
In 2001, the station's transmitter was moved to the Sears Tower. [40] [41] [42] In 2006 WGCI won a Marconi Award for Best Radio Station for Hip-Hop and R&B. [43] The Crazy Howard McGee Show was replaced by the Steve Harvey Morning Show on August 1, 2007. [44] Harvey had previously hosted mornings on WGCI from 1996 to 1997.
KVEG – Hot 97.5 – Rhythmic contemporary hit radio/Hip hop; KYMT-HD2 - Real 103.9 - Urban Contemporary; KXQQ-FM - Q100.5 - Rhythmic Adult Contemporary. KXQQ-HD3 - 100.5 Jamz - Hip hop; KRGT - Latino Beats 99.3 - Spanish Urban; KRRN - Fuego 92.7 - Bilingual Rhythmic Contemporary; KVGQ - 106.9 Da Bomb - Classic hip hop; KBET - 103.1 The Hustle ...
Music of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois is a major center for music [ 1] in the midwestern United States where distinctive forms of blues (greatly responsible for the future creation of rock and roll ), and house music, a genre of electronic dance music, were developed. The "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial ...