At the time she had yet to break the Australian market but later did so with “Don’t Call Me Up” which you mentioned. It’s her only charting song here; peaking at 14 on the ARIA charts in the first half of 2019.
A recent song of hers (“I Wish” with Joel Corry) also got some decent airplay on radio in Australia but never charted.
But that’s what I like about Nova - is that they play certain songs and artists others don’t, and also play some of the best charting songs from overseas.
And here’s a case of reverse psychology. This song did quite well in Australia but not so in its native Ireland.
Still on The Script - their latest song “Dare You to Doubt Me” has not yet been played on Australian radio but I will try to make sure of it when I ring up during Smallzy’s Surgery at some point!
That’s typical Kyle style, claim a conspiracy and hope news.com or Daily Mail pick it up.
And as for Shawn Mullins, that’s the ballad rubbish that should be purged from Kiis Syd & Melb, claim the format gap left by Nova & SCA.
There is most definitely a commercially viable market available to support the format. More than Cada/Edge ever had (who should chase local, direct clients yet ARN have lost this capacity & experience).
@Ant5476 another thing worth noting is that five years ago Nova frequently played “Rain” by The Script, though the song eventually never charted in Australia. In fact, they haven’t had a song chart in the top 50 since “Superheroes” in 2014/15.
But I would like to think they are still popular here as evidenced by the 9,000 strong crowd at their Sydney show ten weeks ago.
These days their songs rarely get played on the radio, and if so it would be “Superheroes”, “Hall of Fame” and “Breakeven” as these are their three most successful songs.
As modern Aus radio (1990’s to today) have no idea how to remain relevant in facilitating music to chart.
Hence a whole bunch of irrelevant talk shows achieving nothing else but a bottom line drain paying so called celebrities who know nothing about real radio communication.
@Avatar5991’s mention of good streaming numbers show that CHR format radio has already reached irrelevancy.
With Spotify (and to a lesser extent Apple Music) you can pretty much listen to any song you want, anytime, anywhere.
While there are people who would stream the same song for hours on end, I’m not that type of person; I prefer to listen to a wide variety of music.
Just briefly going back to the topic of Mimi Webb - she’s not yet reached that “global” level as, for example, Ava Max or Dua Lipa has. Of the three, Max achieved the instant success with her 2018 song “Sweet but Psycho” (even four years on, I never get sick of that song lol), which peaked at number two on the ARIA Charts and reached number one in a number of other countries, including New Zealand.
Good tribute to have the CEO and COO fly from Sydney to show their support, finishing on good terms.
Has Dave McClung moved to Melbourne now he’s looking after Nova 100 and a program manager appointed for Perth?
The colours and artwork for the bfast team’s ‘big goodbye’ are a long way from where Nova should be, looks like artwork more suited for an older, more conservative audience.
Chrissie was absent from Nova 100 breakfast this morning, with only Browny, Sam, Deano and Jack Charles presenting. Deano said Chrissie would be back tomorrow,
Monday was their last OB. This week the show has been inviting special guests (Kitty Flanagan and 3AW’s Denis Walter were on this morning) and looking back at the past seven years of the show.