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Billboard published a weekly chart in 1977 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [1]
Because co-owned WALR-FM ("Kiss 104.1") was so popular in the Atlanta market playing a more traditional Urban AC format, "Jamz" primarily aired '80s/'90s R&B, hip-hop and current songs, targeting primarily 25- to 39-year-olds.
[23]: 336 In response, Emmis named Judy Ellis its general manager (a position in which she served until 2003), and WQHT started to add more R&B and hip hop music. The station started a gradual two-year change towards an urban-oriented rhythmic top 40 format. [23]: 320, 334–336 A new generation of "hot jocks" began appearing on "Hot 97".
Issue Date: Song: Artist: January 6 "Independent Women Part I" Destiny's Child: January 13 "I Just Wanna Luv U (Give It 2 Me)" Jay-Z: January 20 January 27 "Danger (Been So Long)" ...
In 2003, Darden became music director for WQHT, ultimately becoming the program director for the station in 2007. [2] [3] [4]Darden worked alongside several past WQHT Hot 97 morning show co-hosts including Star and Buckwild, Miss Jones, DJ Envy, Sway, and Joe Budden from 2004 to 2007, and introduced Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg to the AM drive in 2009.
WQMG was very successful in the 1970s and 1980s as an Urban Contemporary format under the name "Power 97 FM". By 1996, they would move to their current format under the "Classic Soul...Smooth R&B" slogan, after becoming the sister station to WJMH and beating that station in the ratings, [ 3 ] as well as WTQR with the 18-54 audience. [ 4 ]
The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show (also referred to as Stretch and Bobbito) was an underground hip hop radio show broadcast in New York, originally on 89.9 WKCR-FM, the student radio station at Columbia University, and later on 97.1 WQHT-FM.
WHRK (97.1 FM "K97") is a commercial radio station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee.The station is owned by iHeartMedia and it airs an urban contemporary radio format.The station carries the nationally syndicated weekday morning show, The Breakfast Club, from co-owned Premiere Networks and based at WWPR-FM in New York City.