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  • Spotlight On CADA

    Spotlight On CADA With the launch of ARN’s CADA, AirCheck looks at the Top 10 songs and spots that went to air during the first two weeks of programming. CADA played more music than any other radio station in Sydney during the period with 5,230 total spins, followed by 2CH (5,201) and 2UE (4,885). ‘Peru’…

  • Top Songs At Breakfast

    Ed Sheeran, Becky Hill, Justin Bieber and GAYLE were among the top performing artists on Breakfast radio in the first quarter of 2022. Overall, there were 5,928 different songs played during the daypart across the major metro markets. Adelaide’s Fresh 92.7 played the most music at Breakfast with 2,360 spins. Current National Radio Airplay Chart-topper…

  • Melbourne Music Crossovers

    Melbourne Music Crossovers 101.9 The Fox and Nova 100 had the highest rate of music crossover on Melbourne radio stations over the last four weeks. The two stations shared 31.7% of their playlist. Fox spun a significantly larger number of unique songs with 612, compared to Nova’s 174. Current airplay chart leader ‘Shivers’ by Ed…

  • NEWFM’s Adele Free Friday

    How much is too much Adele? NEWFM listeners have voted to temporarily withdraw the UK singer from the station’s playlist in a move coined ‘Adele Free Friday’. Diving into AirCheck data, listeners were right to think they have been hearing a lot of Adele. The airplay chart-topper accounted for 2.8% (225 spins) of NEWFM’s playlist,…

  • Top 100 Most Played Ads of 2021

    Harvey Norman was the top brand on Australian radio in 2021, airing 199,694 spots across 58 stations. Wollongong’s Wave FM played the most Harvey Norman ads, accounting for 15,166 instances (7.6%). Domayne took out second place airing 93,219 spots on 43 stations, followed by National Tiles with 87,221 spots. Overall, 8,996,190 ads aired across Australian…