{"id":26169,"date":"2014-07-02T00:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=26169"},"modified":"2014-07-02T00:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:10:03","slug":"kongos-im-joking-joke-alternative-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/02\/kongos-im-joking-joke-alternative-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"KONGOS&#8217; &#8220;I&#8217;m Only Joking&#8221; is No Joke At Alternative Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the era of &#8220;Come With Me Now&#8221; is definitely not over&#8211;the song continues to build momentum at pop and remains an airplay powerhouse at alternative&#8211;alternative radio programmers are beginning to focus on the follow-up offering from breakout band KONGOS.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mediabase, &#8220;I&#8217;m Only Joking,&#8221; the band&#8217;s next single, received pickups from an impressive fifteen stations to rank as alternative radio&#8217;s most-added song this week.<\/p>\n<p>Already #50 on the rolling alternative airplay chart, &#8220;I&#8217;m Only Joking&#8221; will leverage the adds to accelerate up the chart.  It might not be able to match the impact of predecessor &#8220;Come With Me Now,&#8221; but it is absolutely poised to make some noise on the alternative format.<\/p>\n<p>Hozier&#8217;s rapidly-rising &#8220;Take Me to Church,&#8221; which is already #30 on the alternative airplay chart, was the week&#8217;s second-most-added song with 6 adds.  Kings of Leon&#8217;s &#8220;Family Tree&#8221; also landed at six alternative stations this week.<\/p>\n<p>Twin Atlantic&#8217;s &#8220;Heart and Soul&#8221; was fourth-most-added with 5 adds, while Grouplove&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m With You,&#8221; Lana Del Rey&#8217;s &#8220;West Coast&#8221; and Milky Chance&#8217;s &#8220;Stolen Dance&#8221; tied for fifth with 4 adds each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047,206],"tags":[2507,2508,2505,2504,506,1753,721,2354,2506,2509],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>KONGOS&#039; &quot;I&#039;m Only Joking&quot; is No Joke At Alternative Radio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While the era of &quot;Come With Me Now&quot; is definitely not over--the song continues to build momentum at pop and remains an airplay powerhouse at\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/02\/kongos-im-joking-joke-alternative-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KONGOS&#039; &quot;I&#039;m Only Joking&quot; is No Joke At Alternative Radio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the era of &quot;Come With Me Now&quot; is definitely not over--the song continues to build momentum at pop and remains an airplay powerhouse at\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/02\/kongos-im-joking-joke-alternative-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-02T04:09:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-02T04:10:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/02\/kongos-im-joking-joke-alternative-radio\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/02\/kongos-im-joking-joke-alternative-radio\/\",\"name\":\"KONGOS' \\\"I'm Only Joking\\\" is No Joke At Alternative Radio\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-02T04:09:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-02T04:10:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"While the era of \\\"Come With Me Now\\\" is definitely not over--the song continues to build momentum at pop and remains an airplay powerhouse at\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/07\/02\/kongos-im-joking-joke-alternative-radio\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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