Commanding such a massive country music audience-the biggest in the history of the genre-Bobby Bones now has the unilateral ability to launch an artist or song. And they were like, “Welp, let’s give the people what they want.” So here it is, Avicii “Hey Brother”, possibly the first big dance country song … And you guys made it happen, because they go and they track iTunes and they see what cities songs are downloaded most in, and where we are, Avicii “Hey Brother” is crushing people.Īvicii being accepted by country music speaks volumes to the influence of EDM and Bobby Bones on the format. It is now officially a country song, and I’m going to say it’s all because of our listeners all downloading the song like crazy in the places that we are. How’s this not a country song? Let’s look at how country sounds now.” they have put out the country radio edit from Avicii. We were like, “This has got to be a country song. We started playing that song “Hey Brother” in December of last year.
The tweet said, “If Avicii ‘Hey Brother’ becomes a hit in country radio, we will be taking 80% of the credit. Bobby Bones first asked for one of his sidekicks to read a tweet he sent out in January of 2014. On Bobby’s Monday morning show, he took credit for the inclusion of “Hey Brother” on country radio. Bobby Bones first official day on WMZQ was Monday the same day WMZQ added Avicii’s “Hey Brother” to the station’s rotation. WMZQ was just in the headlines last week when they decided to switch out their local morning crew for the syndicated Bobby Bones Show-Clear Channel’s flagship country music program that now is broadcast on over 60 radio stations and has a potential reach of 60 million listeners. Now it has a dedicated country radio version that has been picked up by several country stations including major market Washington D.C. His song “Hey Brother” originally released in October of 2013 has been a huge international hit, going #1 in fourteen different countries, reaching #1 on the US Billboard Dance Club Chart, and #24 on the all-encompassing Billboard Hot 100. But the advent of Avicii infiltrating the country music market could spell a completely new dilemma, where artists are forced to give into the EDM trends to stay commercially relevant.Īvicii is a Swedish DJ that released his first album True in 2013.
Saving Country Music has been predicting the impending emergence, if not takeover of EDM-influenced music in the country format for a while now, highlighting how the use of EDM elements like heavily Auto-tuned vocals and drum machine beats are already becoming the norm for many of the hits being recorded by the genre’s biggest male stars. EDM, or Electronic Dance Music, is making a big move into country music with one of the world’s biggest EDM stars in Avicii, and he’s doing it with the help of none other than notorious Clear Channel syndicated DJ Bobby Bones, who’s taking credit for helping to spark the trend.
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