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Yellowcard Once Again Top the Charts

Yellowcard
Jason Tate

Yellowcard once again have the number one song on Alternative Radio.

The song, from Yellowcard’s 2025 album Better Days and featuring Good Charlotte, marks Yellowcard’s second total and consecutive No. 1 on the list, following the three-week reign of “Better Days” last August-September. The act led the chart 22 years after it first reached Alternative Airplay, then setting a record for the longest wait between an initial appearance and reaching No. 1.

That record stood until now, as “Bedroom Posters” is Good Charlotte’s first leader on any Billboard airplay ranking. The rockers first hit Alternative Airplay in September 2000 with “Little Things” — making it an unprecedented 25 years, seven months and one week between an act’s first appearance on the tally and its first No. 1. (Yellowcard still holds the mark for the longest wait among artists first hitting No. 1 as a lead act.)

Howard Stern Re-Signs With SiriusXM

Jason Tate

Howard Stern has signed a new three-year contract with SiriusXM.

As part of the new deal, Stern said he will host 75 episodes per year, down from the roughly 100 episodes he currently hosts. Stern, 71, said the reduction in episodes was his choice, as he wanted “more free time” while still “continuing to be on radio.”

Pay-for-Play Was Banned From Radio — But Texts Reveal It May Still Be Thriving

Rolling Stone
Jason Tate

Elias Leight, writing at Rolling Stone:

In June 2019, Mitch Mills, a senior vice president of radio promotion at Elektra Records, sent an urgent text to Steve Zap, an independent radio promoter who works with a number of stations in the adult contemporary format. The pair are both longtime players in the music industry, and have texted each other periodically about Warner Music Group acts, including Panic! at the Disco, Twenty One Pilots, and Fitz and the Tantrums. The June 2019 text shows that Mills was worried because Panic! at the Disco were receiving fewer plays than they had the previous week on a station Zap oversaw. “Stevie … [down] 11 in panic,” Mills wrote. “I just did a 2k deal with you … I need Panic back up.”

The text is one of more than 2,500 messages involving Zap that have been obtained by Rolling Stone. A number of these texts, covering 2018 to July of this year, refer to conversations with major label executives about promotional giveaways and payments to a radio station in connection with airplay – practices that have supposedly been banned.

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