Quick Question about Requested Songs

Post by **wiseguy** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:01 pm

What would you say the average age of the songs requested during one of your typical karaoke shows would round out to be? The year the actual song was released... not it's karaoke release date.

I took the song requests from several shows at different venues and made a list. Then I looked up the year that each song was released in and calculated how many years old the song was. After adding all the songs ages together and dividing that number by the number of songs I was surprised at what turned out to be the average age of a requested song.

I'll wait to see what some of your estimates are before I tell you my number.

mnementh · Post by **mnementh** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:28 pm

I'd bet it came out around the 60's and 70's

When music made sense and had decent tunes.

Even the youngsters over here choose that era.

Sandy.

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:13 pm

I can tell by the songs people sing that today's music is only limitedly popular. There are some songs that get sung a lot from todays music and most of it is country.

I would say since the older music has more musical hooks and a better melody line with lyrics you can remember...The stuff we grew up on will always be more popular. They just don't write music like they used to.
My guess is between 30-40 years.

Post by **wiseguy** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:07 pm

The number I came up with was roughly 39 years. That is quite a bit older than the average age of my singers which means many of them are singing songs that were released before they were born. Is buying new music a complete waste of money?

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:19 am

That's the reason I stopped automatically buying every new pop hits monthly ...
I will only buy requests from now on and I haven't updated since February...I have a few peopel asking for some really new songs...but not that often....
I think we are seeing a change in the singers and their attitude towards karaoke.

I'm not saying people don't want to sing new songs..they do...but many still sing the same songs they've been singing for 10-15-20 years...

Today was my 20th anniversary....of karaoke hosting...

Post by **wiseguy** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:37 pm

I think I could probably go the next five years without buying a single new song and it would make no difference in the number of singers I get.

Congrats on your 20th anniversary! I'll reach 20 years in October.

DanG2006 · Post by **DanG2006** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:46 am

Monday will be 19 for me.