Talk:Adult contemporary music

There is a place for a list of examples... We're not trying to make a comprehensive playlist, just a sample of artists that you may hear on an AC station during a particular span of time. It appears when the list was created, the editor took primarily a list of currents being played. As AC is a gold-based format, it's my belief that the list of core artists should reflect that. Here is my suggestion of how what to change the core artist list to, based on MediaBase 2007 "12 Month Reports: Artists By Format (of course, this list is not copied verbatim, that would be a copyright violation):

Please make change to this list as necessary. If there are no objections, I'll post this list to the article on/after 1 Feb 2008.

I think this list is more gold based, and therefore should stand the test of time better than continually trying to list what artists are current (...if we were trying to list currents, I'd agree with the editor below's suggestion of placing a link to a site like Radio and Records)

Ihateaubergine (talk) 00:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I punched in "adult music" into my search ndow and found this nice artical about what adult contempory music is. As a older musician I sometimes wonder where I can fit in to the music of the day. Adult contemporary music has a very wide age range,perhaps 20 to 70?I write songs that are in different styles of music ,but I still they might be A.C.This artical has cleared my mind about what songs I will put on my next CD. I have just released "Regular Joe" which has a wide mix of styles,perhaps a little too wide. I think I will narrow down the diversity next time.........any way I feel better....Larry Pless

List of Adult Contemporary (AC) artists is horribly outdated and some unfamiliar. AC music is, first and foremost, about familiar music.

Hey, why not discuss changes to the core artists before changing? The list has greatly expanded to include artists very few people have ever heard of and those who haven't received serious airplay in years. I love Brenda Russell, but she had one hit in the 80s; she is NOT a core artist. This should be CORE artists to the format. By definition, a list of core artist would include those with lots of hits and lots of airplay. Sorry, David Bisbal, but I can't even name one hit from you. I have gone to Mediabase 24/7 -- the industry's airplay resource and pulled up the listed of most frequently played artists. I will use that as the list. Goeverywhere 05:29, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does this article even need to contain a list of artists? It changes all the time, just replace the whole section with a link to a top list. Not sure if I'd call it appropriate to add a list of artists in the first place, but I digress. Further, the links provided gives an error message on the target page (not logged in / session expired, please don't link to sites which require login before showing the content desired).

However, it should not be called "Modern adult contemporary" as this blurs the boundaries too much, and tries to make a separate genera (that if anything is a sub-genera of alternatie rock rather than of this) into part of something its not part of.

Of course, such matters of classification are unavoidably matters of oppinion, no matter who does the classifying or how you go about it. However, I think most people use the term "adult alternative" and see it as a separate genera, and this is how sites like Yahoo Music and Amazon.com organize things (though Yahoo lists it as "rock" genera while amazon lists it as a "pop" genera).69.254.107.165 (talk) 17:32, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]