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Aardvark Records is a British internet promotional music company started by Andrew Reeve and Alex di Savoia, which promotes the genres indie rock, Americana, alt country, dance music, electronica, adult contemporary and pop music.
In 1981, while he was the Program Director for a struggling Adult Contemporary-format station in San Diego named KIFM, he began an evening program of jazz-tinged instrumentals entitled Lites Out San Diego.
However, each of the songs peaked in the top 5 of Billboards other charts, for instance the dance, adult contemporary and rhythm and blues charts.
When CFMG-FM flipped from AC to contemporary hit radio as "Virgin Radio, it marked the first three-station FM top 40 battle in Edmonton as of February 2011 (the other competitor being CJNW-FM).
Even while the only English top 40 station in Ottawa (many major-market top 40 stations in Canada have phased out 1980s songs), it is one of the few top 40 stations in Canada to continue supporting 1980s songs, making The New Hot 89.9 lean more adult contemporary than most top 40 stations in Canada.
However, on May 21, 2012 at 12 Midnight, Leclerc dropped the Rythme FM branding and adult contemporary programming from CJEC-FM, and began to identify itself as Le 91,9 FM Québec, playing a selection of hot adult contemporary music without use of personalities—the station was relaunched as WKND 91.9 (pronounced on-air as Weekend Radio 91.9) on June 20, 2012 at 6PM.
On December 1, 2011, the station flipped to an all Christmas format for the holiday season, with announced plans to switch to adult contemporary after January 1, 2012.
It became the band's first single to be played on adult contemporary radio, with the first stations added being Detroit's WNIC (which changed formats to adult top 40 in August 2011) during Spring 2011 and WLER-FM in Butler/Pittsburgh.
The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, which charted nine pop and adult contemporary singles between 1976 and 1980, including the No.
The high-production album, released in 2002, launched the single "I Need an Angel", which hit #30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
"Navy Blue", composed by Crewe with Bud Rehak and Eddie Rambeau, became a national smash, reaching No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1964, and soaring to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary singles chart.
K-LOVE is an adult contemporary Christian music radio programming service in the United States operated by the Educational Media Foundation.
Entitled Butterfly Kisses, this album produced four singles, none of which reached top 40: "Do It Again" at number 55; the album's title track (number 62), which was also a Number One Adult Contemporary hit and minor country hit for Bob Carlisle as well as a Top 40 pop and country hit for the Raybon Brothers; "Here's the Deal" (number 64); and "Cheatin' on Her Heart" (number 52).
Aside from adult contemporary currents and some country music, no tunes released past 1977 were being played since the station was now targeting baby boomers.
However, in 2002, the station returned to its roots as an AC (Adult Contemporary) station as "the all-new B98.7." The station shares the radio rights to the Utah Jazz (National Basketball Association) with sister station KFNZ.
In 2007, the station was nominated for the top 25 markets Adult Contemporary station of the year award by Radio & Records magazine.
KMGL (104.1 FM, "Magic 104.1") is an adult contemporary music formatted radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by Ty and Tony Tyler, through licensee Tyler Media, L.L.C.
In 2007, the station was nominated for the top 25 markets Adult Contemporary station of the year award by Radio & Records magazine.
KQXT-FM (101.9 FM, "Q101.9") is a San Antonio, Texas, adult contemporary radio station operating with 100,000 watts from a transmitter site on the Tower of the Americas in downtown San Antonio.
KRPM sign on as KULU on 5/22/2000 than changed call letters to KZRV on 10/20/2000 as 80s 107-5 The River later switching to the Adult Contemporary format.
KSTT-FM airs an adult top 40 music format branded as Coast 101.3, and prior to 2012, aired an adult contemporary format.
The album won "Pop Album of the Year" at the Western Canadian Music Awards and the title track "Can't Stop Falling" won CHUM Radio's "Emerging Indie Artist Initiative" and 1st place in the Billboard World Song Contest, peaking at #8 on the Canadian AC Charts and #15 on the Canadian HOT AC Charts.
The area is served by several radio stations, mainly Millinocket-licensed WSYY-FM 94.9 (classic hits/adult contemporary) and WSYY 1240(CBS Sports Radio).
Many of the easy listening stations were rebranded as The Breeze and the other stations which typically played Adult Contemporary or Hot AC music were rebranded as MORE FM, the change saw MORE FM extended to more than 15 markets with all stations initially retaining their local announcers.
Noteworthy, Music Channel is known for also airing Latin pop, adult contemporary, J-pop and K-pop among other genres that don't receive significant airplay from other music stations.
Actor Bruce Willis, with help from June Pointer of The Pointer Sisters, reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, number 20 on the Hot Black Singles chart and number 22 on the Adult Contemporary chart (1987)
In the U.S., DeSario is mainly known for her duet with KC, lead singer of the R&B and funk group KC and the Sunshine Band of the Barbara Mason cover, (Pop # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and certified gold, Adult Contemporary #1 for 2 weeks) "Yes, I'm Ready" from 1980, from her second album Moonlight Madness, released in 1979.
It was released to radio stations in the United States in 2006, peaking at #27 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart (see 2006 in music).
Bill Lamb of About.com compared the track to work by Colbie Caillat and said it would have no problem conquering adult contemporary radio, as well as country, while receiving minor airplay from mainstream stations.
As of February 2012, the station has not been listed on the Mediabase urban AC add board yet, a similar fate happens with sister adult contemporary station WSB-FM.
CBS retained the WBBM-FM call letters on 96.3 when WCFS-FM (105.9) converted from adult contemporary to a simulcast of WBBM (AM) on April 1, 2011, as no call letter verification is needed with the Portable People Meter system.
On February 24, 2013, WECR-FM changed their format from adult contemporary Mix 102.3 to country, simulcasting WMMY 106.1 FM.
The record became an Adult Contemporary hit for Ed Ames in 1967, spending four weeks at #1 on the Easy Listening chart, but only reached #98 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The station began as WHJB-FM in 1968, sister station to then WHJB-AM (now WKHB), then became WOKU-FM, cycling through various formats (Adult Contemporary, Disco, Country and Heavy Metal) before becoming Top 40 WSSZ-FM "Hot Hits Z-107" in the late 1980s.
When Clear Channel had another round of lay-offs through their stations in Fall 2012, the station's Programming Director was let go, therefore the station morphed back into a Mainstream AC under a new PD in which it had the station emphasis less on softer 70s, 80s, and 90s music by Spring 2013.
Besides ABC News updates twice hourly, the station features local on-air talent and Adult Contemporary music for the bulk of their broadcast day, The station primarily provides coverage of the Cincinnati Reds and Ohio State University football, but also airs Cleveland Cavaliers, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians, Ohio University Bobcats football, and local high school sports broadcasts.
To keep up with demographic trends, WOKY tweaked their format over the years, gradually shifting to a middle of the road/oldies hybrid that mixed uptempo 1950s-1970s oldies with classic and current adult contemporary music, with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond and The Carpenters being mainstays of the format.
At 6:33 p.m., after playing The Doors' "When The Music's Over" (the same song that ended the legendary WABX rock format in 1984), the station went silent for nearly 20 minutes and then emerged as an Adult Contemporary station.
The last song on "WFOG" was the Beach Boys' "Catch a Wave", leading up to the launch of "92-9 The Wave", with an adult contemporary format, which started with "Forever Young" by Rod Stewart.
Before October 2005, the station was rock WKBU, with previous formats including Rhythmic Top 40 (as WAIL), Adult Contemporary (as WLTS, Lite 105) and Adult Top 40 (as WKZN, "105.3 The Zone").
However, by 1981 WLRS was beaten by rival Album Rock station WQMF in the ratings and in 1984, the station switched to Top 40, adding pop and urban artists like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston to its playlist (while still leaning toward Rock), to fill the void left when WKJJ abandoned Top 40 for Adult Contemporary in 1982 and WJYL dropped Top 40 for urban contemporary in 1984.
The station is licensed to the Manitowoc County community of Mishicot, Wisconsin, and airs an active rock music format as "Razor 94-7." The station launched in 1994, and previously aired adult contemporary and classic country formats before being sold to current owner Woodward Communications, who launched "Razor 94-7" in 2000.
Released as the lead single for their third album, Different Kind of Free, this was their only No. 1 Christian adult contemporary (AC) single.
Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
It spawned the Top 10 romantic ballad "Key Largo", which referenced the Humphrey Bogart movie of the same name and reached #8 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 record chart, number one in the adult contemporary charts, and a country hit as well.
Her next album, Screamin' for My Supper (Atlantic, 1999), featured "LA Song (Out of This Town),", a #1 hit in New Zealand and a top-5 Adult Contemporary Chart hit.
Kenny G's two previous #1 singles on the adult contemporary chart were "Missing You Now" (credited to Michael Bolton featuring Kenny G) and "Forever in Love", while Bryson's previous #1s were "If Ever You're in My Arms Again" and "A Whole New World", a duet with Regina Belle that was the theme for the 1992 Disney film Aladdin.
By June 2012, the station dropped the entire 1980s library and most pre-2000 music from its playlist, making it one of the few AC stations to not follow the adult contemporary pattern.
By June 2012, the station dropped the entire 1980s library and most of pre-2000 music from its playlist, making it one of the few AC stations to not follow the adult contemporary pattern.
The following year, yet another famed producer, Thom Bell, helped Williams score another number-1 R&B chart-topper with her remake of The Royalettes' "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", which became a Top 10 pop hit as well, reaching number 10 and number 6 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well.
Win FM was sold to the Tindle Radio by The Local Radio Company in September 2006, and in an effort to distinguish the station from its more successful rivals in its transmission area, was rebranded as Dream 107.2 in October 2007, adopting a soft adult contemporary music policy in early 2008 akin to that of London-based Magic 105.4 and latter-day competitor The Coast 106, which launched in October 2008.
In 2008, Lightfoot's video for Kate Havnevik's "Unlike Me" won Best Direction in the Adult Contemporary genre at the MVPA Awards in Los Angeles.
Though the album did not chart, it did produce the minor hit "I Needed to Fall", which peaked at #25 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
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Bryson would later have two more chart-topping singles on the adult contemporary chart: "A Whole New World", a duet with Regina Belle that was the theme to the film Aladdin; and "By the Time This Night Is Over", a song by saxophone player Kenny G on which Bryson was the featured vocalist.
Produced, by El DeBarge and the writing credits varying from El, Marty, James and Bunny, the album reached gold after the releases of the following singles "Time Will Reveal" and "Love Me in a Special Way" (which features fellow Motown artist Stevie Wonder on harmonica), which hit number one on the Billboard R&B and adult contemporary singles chart respectively.
The album got to #8 in the UK Album Chart, whilst in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, "You Lied to Me" was a Top 40 hit, and "Irresistible" made the Adult Contemporary Top Ten; however, the album descended the chart rapidly.
Another song, "Call Me Mr. In-Between," composed by Harlan Howard, maximized at No. 3 on the Country Singles Chart, No. 6 on the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart, and No. 19 on the Pop Singles Chart.
On September 7, 2011, at 12:01 am, midway through The Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough, KDBZ changed their format from modern AC (branded as "The Buzz") to adult contemporary, branded as "The Peak".
The instrumental was a medley of swing jazz hits - "In the Mood", "Cherokee", "American Patrol", "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Don't Be That Way", "Little Brown Jug", "Opus #1", "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart", and "String of Pearls" - that became so popular it even cracked the US Billboard Pop Singles chart (at #31) and Adult Contemporary chart (#20).
"Could I Be Your Girl", "Insensitive" and "Good Mother" were all significant hits for Arden in Canada, with "Wonderdrug," "Unloved" and "Looking for It" also becoming Canadian adult-contemporary hits.
The song returned to the charts in the summer of 1982 in a version by Paul Davis, which reached number 40 on the Hot 100 and number 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
# We Belong (Pop #5 / charted 10-27-84; Rock #3 / charted 10-27-84; Adult Contemporary # 34 /charted 11-17-84)
CKQQ-FM, a hot adult contemporary radio station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Southend Radio is a local adult contemporary radio station broadcasting to Southend on Sea, in Essex, England from studios in The Icon Building on Southend Seafront, owned by the Adventure Radio Group.
WJKE, an Adult Contemporary radio station licensed to Stillwater, New York
KIOI, a Hot Adult Contemporary radio station licensed to San Francisco, California
It reached #102 in the USA and #11 in the UK, and its first single, "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" became an international hit, reaching #1 in the Philippines, #2 in the U.K.,#4 in The Netherlands, #6 in Norway as well as making the Top 40 R&B and Adult Contemporary charts in the United States.
This Dalida album, following with her adult contemporary style of the last album, contains hits like the Italian "Mamy blue", the melancholic classic "Avec le temps" and the love song "Les choses de l'amour".
By 2005, WGER had evolved from mainstream AC to its current Hot AC sound, although it would be several months before the station stopped reporting to Radio & Records/Mediabase 24/7's Adult Contemporary airplay panel and switched to the Hot AC panel.
"The River" brand, shared with many adult contemporary stations nationwide, is a local reference to the Connecticut River.
Music was a mixture of current and recurrent adult contemporary hits with a mix of standard hits from artists such as Sérgio Mendes, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, and Andy Williams.
After seven years of mediocre ratings against the dominant adult contemporary station, WTCB, the station flipped on August 16, 2005 to variety hits as "Steve FM" (rumored to be named for then-new University Of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier, even though he is affiliated with WISW.).
In 1986 the station moved its studios and offices to Kill Devil Hills in the Nags Head Resort area of Dare County and became a live adult contemporary format as WRSF, Surf 106.
On February 15, 1996, at 3 p.m. Central time, air personality Gator Harrison was joined in studio by pop artist Lisa Loeb, and the station changed its nickname to "107.5 The River", and its format to Hot Adult Contemporary.