radio song

English

Noun

radio song (plural radio songs)

1. A song played on music radio stations, or intended for widespread play on radio stations.
   • 1926 January, Clarence A. Stout, “The Songwriting Game”, in The Writer's Digest, volume 6, number 2, page 44:

     Quite a few songs have been popularized over the radio and made famous, but the success of a popular radio song as a rule is short lived.

   • 1998 February, Keith Moerer, “Who Killed Rock Radio?”, in Spin Magazine, volume 14, number 2, page 78:

     Philips sounds like the stodgiest Top 40 programmer when he talks about why a typical Prodigy song doesn't work well on 99X: "What are you supposed to do to it? There's nothing to sing along to; there's no lyric per se. There's no traditional melody or harmony. It's a little bit...abstract to work as a traditional radio song.

   • 2011, “Radio Song”, in XXX, performed by Danny Brown:

     A smash club banger, play it all night long / You never get on without a radio song / So this my radio song