Whew! The Beyhive was buzzing angrily about Oklahoma station KYKC 100.1 FM refusing to play Beyoncé‘s new observe. The nation music station apparently didn’t categorize ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’ as a rustic joint and made certain to let a stan know that — twice.
Although KYKC finally revealed their intent to play the music, it took an entire lotta ENERGY to get ’em there. Preserve scrolling to see what occurred. The Beyoncé stan who shared their emailed rejection and the station spoke to The Shade Room concerning the Feb. 13 alternate.
Beyoncé Stan Shares What Oklahoma Station Stated In The Emails
As talked about, Justin McGowan reached out to KYKC on Tuesday to request the nation tune first teased in a Verizon industrial. That was a lil’ truth Justin teased within the request kind.
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Nonetheless, shortly after submitting, somebody on the Oklahoma station shut down the Beyoncé request from a SCORE Broadcasting e mail handle.
“Hello — we don’t play Beyoncé on KYKC as we’re a rustic music station. Thanks.”
Not glad with their miscategorization of Texas Maintain ‘Em, Justin adopted up, highlighting Black People’ contribution to the style.
“‘Texas Maintain ‘Em is a brand new music and it’s a nation music. It is usually labeled as nation on Spotify and Apple Music. Please play this music and cease being discriminatory in direction of her. (By the way in which, Black individuals created nation music.)”
Nonetheless, the KYKC worker doubled down and gave an instance as to how their rejection isn’t discriminatory.
“We are going to test it out. If it’s applicable to the format, we’ll play it. In the meantime, we play tons of Beyoncé on our 99.three station and plenty extra on our 105.5 station, so… “discriminatory” we aren’t. Thanks.”
See the e-mail alternate screenshots under.
KYKC Explains Their Preliminary Response To The Beyoncé Request
When The Shade Room contacted the Oklahoma station, they labeled their preliminary response to the Beyoncé request as a “generic reply.” Nonetheless, of their unique reply, KCYC admitted they may’ve “been extra detailed.”
“If somebody emailed our nation station and requested a Rolling Stones music, we might have most likely replied the identical. Beyoncé is understood for NOT being a rustic artist, so we simply replied to that impact.”
The assertion continued:
“However…we are literally excited that she has ‘crossed over’ to a brand new style and we’ll watch it carefully to see if larger stations begin taking part in it and to observe it on the chart. We do play the music on our Prime 40 station, KXFC, however haven’t added it but to our nation station. We’re massive Beyoncé followers right here and actually hope it does properly, as we like seeing new artists get into the format.”
Swipe under to see the assertion.
Shortly after giving The Shade Room their unique assertion, KYKC took to their X (previously Twitter) for the primary time since Might 2020. Their tune appeared to have modified.
They shared a photograph of their playlist and ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’ was scheduled to play at 2:28:35 PM native time.
“A lot of name coming in for Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em.’ It’s developing in minutes.”
A lot of name coming in for Beyoncé’s Texas Maintain ‘Em. It’s developing in minutes pic.twitter.com/w9hZ24w4aw
— 100.1 KYKC (@1001KYKC) February 13, 2024
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The Shade Room Social Media Editor Brianne contributed to this unique report.