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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

One Direction On American Radio

It's early day yet but What Make You Beautiful is gaining radio airplay on Top 40.

Top 40 is a the most popular radio format and it plays mostly pop.  In America, there are 154 such stations.

March 1:  #47 with 672 spins (# of spins = # of radio airplay counted on a weekly basis)
March 2:  #43 with 790 spins
March 3:  #40 with 877 spins
March 4:  #40 with 1,027 spins
March 5:  #33 with 1,166 spins
March 6:  #31 with 1,277 spins

As you can see, What Make You Beautiful is gaining more radio airplay and therefore rising on the pop radio chart.  #31 = the 31st most played song on pop radio station.

FYI:  #1 (Adele's Set Fire To the Rain) has over 13,000 spins on pop.






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