How To Make Your Hit Music (Station) Number 1

Music scheduling for CHR formats can be quite a challenge. How to create music variety and on-air flow with 200 songs or less?

“No! Not another new single by Pharrell! He’s also on my A list – plus on 4 Recurrents we’re playing!” If you’re a Contemporary Hit Radio programmer, this might be one of your nightmares right now. How to help your music scheduling software deal with artist separations and other rules while having several high-rotation song categories in your format clock? It’s one of the questions we’ll try to answer.