Newcomer Ellie Goulding’s dance hit “Lights” is now the dominant song in Atlanta radio, spun 316 times the past week.

It’s in high rotation on four stations: B98.5 (42 spins), Star 94 (67), Q100 (76) and the new Power 96.1 (121), plus 10 more spins on Wild 105.7.

Rihanna’s “Where Have You Been” drops to No. 4 after two weeks at the top. Former No. 1, Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake,” remains at No. 2.

And for fans of Dave FM, which is sort of “Dead Radio Station Walking,” the station has greatly expanded its list of current songs in recent weeks, just basically letting loose and making the entire playlist more modern. (The average song now is 13 years old, compared to 18 years old five months ago.)

In the past two weeks, the station added 11 new songs and played 742 different tunes.

Of the top 30 songs, only three are played on other stations: Green Day’s “Oh Love” (heard on Rock 100.5) and Alex Clare’s “Too Close” and Fun.’s “Some Nights,” both top 40 crossover songs. Other tunes by the likes of Alabama Shakes, ZZ Ward, Imagine Dragons, Courrier, the Wallflowers, the Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, Walk the Moon and Of Monsters and Men will disappear from the Atlanta FM airwaves soon.

Rock 100.5 since the changes last month has added a few more current songs (playing 448 unique songs last week) while 97.1/The River has gone deeper. It played 273 songs last week it didn’t play the week before while subbing out 249 other songs. The playlist used to include maybe 250 to 350 unique songs in any given week. Last week: 775 songs!

Tunes the River over its seven-year life span has never played until the past week:

- Triumph “Fight the Good Fight”
- Traveling Wilburys “Handle With Care”
- Styx “Crystal Ball”
- Bob Seger “Tryin’ To Live My Life W/O You”
- Scorpions “Zoo”
- Rolling Stones “Soul Survivor”
- Queen “Sweet Lady”
- Wilson Pickett “Funky Broadway”
- Pearl Jam “Rockin’ in the Free World”
- Little Feat “Easy to Slip’
- Joan Jett “Bad Reputation”
- R.E.M. “Orange Crush”

Top 10, according to Mediabase 24/7
1. Ellie Goulding “Lights”
2. Katy Perry “Wide Awake”
3. Calvin Harris ‘Let’s Go”
4. Rihanna “Where Have You Been”
5. Miguel “Adorn”
6. Demi Lovato “Give Your Heart a Break”
7. Flo Rida “Whistle”
8. Maroon 5 “One More Night”
9. Trey Songz “Heart Attack”
10. Alex Clare “Too Close”

Top 5 songs on various Atlanta radio stations (and new songs added the past two weeks)

V-103
1. Future “Turn on the Lights”
2. Miguel “Adorn”
3. Juicy J “Bandz A Make Her Dance”
4. Trey Songz “Dive In”
5. T.I. “Go Get It”
ADDS: Kelly Rowland “Ice,” Ciara “Sorry,” Q. Parker “Yes” Kanye West “Clique” Alicia Keys “Girl on Fire”

Hot 107.9
1. Miguel “Adorn”
2. Trey Songz “Dive In”
3. Future “Turn on the Lights”
4. 2 Chainz “No Lie”
5. French Montana “Pop That”
ADDS: Rick Ross “Touch ‘N You” Kanye West “Clique”

Wild 105.7/96.7
1. Flo Rida “Whistle”
2. Kanye West “Mercy”
3. Trey Songz “Heart Attack”
4. Trey Songz “2 Reasons”
5. Nicki Minaj “Pound the Alarm”
ADDS: Kreayshawn “Go Hard” Rita Ora “R.I.P.” Miguel “Adorn” French Montana “Pop That”

Kiss 104.1
1. John Legend “Tonight”
2. Mary J. Blige “Mr. Wrong”
3. Estelle “Thank You”
4. Anthony Hamilton “Pray For Me”
5. R. Kelly “Share My Love”
ADDS: Trey Songz “Heart Attack” Miguel “Adorn”

Majic 107.5/97.5
1. Miguel “Adorn”
2. R. Kelly “Feelin’ Single”
3. John Legend “Tonight”
4. Anthony Hamilton “Pray For Me”
5. Usher “Climax”

Power 96.1 (Mediabase only started following the station on 9/11, though it launched earlier)
1. David Guetta “Titanium”
2. Calvin Harris ‘Let’s Go”
3. Katy Perry “Wide Awake”
4. Ellie Goulding “Lights”
5. Rihanna “Where Have You Been”

Q100
1. Ellie Goulding “Lights”
2. Owl City & Carly Ray Jepsen “Good Time”
3. Katy Perry “Wide Awake”
4. Neon Trees “Everybody Talks”
5. Maroon 5 “Payphone”
Adds: Fun. “Some Nights,” Enrique Iglesias “Finally Found You” Alex Clare “Too Close” Christina Aguilera “Your Body” The Script “Hall of Fame” Usher “Numb” OneRepublic “Feel Again”

Star 94
1. Ellie Goulding “Lights”
2. Katy Perry “Wide Awake”
3. Gotye “Somebody That I Used to Know”
4. Fun. “We are Young”
5. Matchbox Twenty “She’s So Mean”
ADDS: Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen “Good Time,” OneRepublic “Feel Again” Christina Perri “Distance”

B98.5
1. Ellie Goulding “Lights”
2. Fun. “We are Young”
3. Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe”
4. Matchbox Twenty “She’s So Mean”
5. Maroon 5 “Payphone”
ADDS: Ellie Goulding “Lights,” Matchbox Twenty “She’s So Mean’ Demi Lovato “Give Your Heart a Break” Usher “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”

Fish 104.7
1. Jamie Grace “You Lead”
2. Jeremy Camp “Overcome”
3. Matthew West “Forgiveness”
4. Rhett Walker Band “When Mercy Found Me”
5. Matt Redman “10,000 Reaons”
ADDS: Third Day “I Need a Miracle” Meredith Andrews “Not a Moment (After All)”

Praise 102.5
1. Israel Houghton “It’s Not Over”
2. Charles Jenkins “Awesome”
3. Isaac Carree “In the Middle”
4. Adrae Crouch “Let the Church Say Amen”
5. Tamela Mann “Take Me to the King”
ADDS: Anthony Brown & Group Therapy “Testimony” Troy Sneed “Lay It Down”

Kicks 101.5
1. Jason Aldean “Take a Little Ride”
2. Hunter Hayes “Wanted”
3. Josh Turner “Time is Love”
4. Easton Corbin “Lovin’ You Is Fun”
5. Keith Urban “For You”
ADDS: Kix Brooks “Bring It On Home” Alan Jackson “You Go Your Way”

94.9/the Bull
1. Jason Aldean “Take a Little Ride”
2. Hunter Hayes “Wanted”
3. Jana Kramer “Why Ya Wanna”
4. Carrie Underwood “Blown Away”
5. Easton Corbin “Lovin You Is Fun”
ADDS: Brad Paisley “Southern Comfort Zone” Kenny Chesney “El Cerito Place” Gary Allan “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)” Thomas Rhett “Beer With Jesus” Kacey Musgraves “Merry Go ‘Round”

92.9/Dave FM
1. Wallflowers “Reboot the Mission”
2. Dave Matthews Band “Mercy”
3. Avett Brothers “Live and Die”
4. Alex Clare “Too Close”
5. Walk the Moon “Anna Sun”
ADDS: Walk the Moon “Anna Sun” Ponderosa “Navajo” Ed Sheeran “The A Team” Whigs Waiting” Ben Howard “Only Love” Patterson Hood “Disappear” Muse “Madness” Florence + the Machine “Spectrum” Grace Potter & the Nocturnals “Runaway” Benjamin Gibbard “Teardrop Windows” Courrier “Love is a Fire”

Rock 100.5
1. Rush “Headlong Flight”
2. Foo Fighters “These Days’
3. Green Day “Oh Love”
4. Shinedown “Unity”
5. Soundgarden “Live to Rise”

97.1/The River
1. Blondie “Heart of Glass”
2. Boston “More than a Feeling”
3. Styx “Renegade”
4. Aerosmith “Sweet Emotion”
5. Boston “Peace of Mind”

SOURCE: Mediabase 24/7

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By Rodney Ho, Radio & TV Talk