This was most likely caused by the launch of Rhythmic Top 40 (now Mainstream Top 40) station CFBT-FM in 2002 and took away the majority of the station's younger audiences, which prompted CKZZ to seek an older audience that listened to the station in its 90's heyday.
On October 8, 2009, KCHZ fully shifted back to a Mainstream Top 40 format (with Kansas City already having KMXV as the existing top 40 station), including rock songs (which they originally left out), making the shift to a pop format complete.
The station once served Atlanta with a signal of 50,000 watts at 104.7, which had been Top 40 pop WJSR/WAGQ since the 1970s.
WLKT, also known as 104.5 The Cat, is a Mainstream Top 40 station broadcasting in Lexington, Kentucky.
But unlike the traditional Mainstream Top 40 format that was used at their sister stations, this version focused on Rhythmic Hits and did not use the trademarked blue ball.
(Fomer competitor WBTS did not compete directly with WHTA until 2001 when it gravitated its top 40 format from pop to rhythmic, two years after it launched.) Thus, it was the only pure hip hop and R&B station based in Atlanta for the first five years on the air.
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KJYO went back to a Mainstream Top 40 direction and KZBS started leaning towards an Adult Top 40 direction, eventually becoming Hot AC KYIS "98.9 Kiss-FM", but it was too late for KPRW to regain its audience.
The album's lead single "Dirty Little Secret" was released June 6, 2005 and peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as #4 on both the Pop 100 and Mainstream Top 40 charts respectively.
Millicent Shelton directed the clip for their second single "U Send Me Swingin" (No. 33 on the R&B chart, No. 33 on the Hot 100, and No. 14 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart).
By 2012, WBBM-FM was moved to the Mediabase contemporary hit radio panel; however, it continued to report to the Nielsen BDS rhythmic contemporary panel until November 2012 when BDS moved the station back to the Mainstream Top 40 panel.