Every week at Radio Station Consultant we watch multiple new songs across radio formats to help us better advice our clients on new music adds. Here are a few of the songs we’re watching this week. Baby Keem "Good Flirts" Rhythmic/Urban, Megan Moroney "Medicine" Country, Hilary Duff "We Don't Talk" Hot AC/Top 40 and more!

Sports Talk radio is very different from music radio, yet it shares many skills, structures, and strategies.  If you program one or both of these formats, consider these similarities: Strategic Content Rotation.  Both rely on the hottest hits.  Sports talk replays hot topics, much like music radio plays hit songs.

Out of this week's data here are a few of the songs that topped those lists nationally in the US and Canada along with a few random specific markets. Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Hot AC/Top 40: Olivia Dean "Man I Need.”

At Lund Media, we talk a lot about the “perfect break.” Not because it’s mythical (like Bigfoot or a PD who loves meetings), but because it’s achievable when you focus on the right ingredients. A perfect break is the proper mix of branding, engagement, and commitment, measured not by what we like but by what the listener actually hears, remembers, and sticks around for.

AM/FM radio accounts for 56% of all in-car audio time according to Edison Research’s Share of the Ear study for the second quarter of 2025. This is more than four times the share of SiriusXM and six times that of Spotify’s ad-free subscription service.

Every week at Radio Station Consultant we watch multiple new songs across radio formats to help us better advice our clients on new music adds. Here are a few of the songs we’re watching this week. Charli XCX "Always Everywhere" Hot AC/EDM, Brent Faiyaz "Wrong Faces" Top 40/Urban and more.

Teases are challenging, but when you get into the rhythm, they can be fun. The goal is to capture the listener's attention and create interest while giving them a hint of what to expect, and without giving away the outcome. An effective tease strategy is complicated, but there are 5 keys to a tease to help you write an effective and creative promo for segments.

Some aircheck sessions are like dental surgery: Painful and dreadful. Outdoor stores like REI should have an entire department selling gear to survive the aircheck. Air personalities and programmers would both stock up! Yet other sessions are like therapy: Insightful and helpful.

Out of this week's data here are a few of the songs that topped the lists nationally in the US and Canada along with a few random specific markets. The United States, Latin: Bad Bunny "DtMF" (Overall #1).

There’s a big difference between an audience and a community. An audience consumes. A community participates. An audience drifts away the second a better song, a hotter take, or a slicker algorithm shows up. A community sticks around because leaving feels like missing a family dinner. And if radio has one unfair advantage over streaming and podcasts, it is this: we are local, live, and connected.