radio song

plural radio songs

1. A song played on music radio stations, or intended for widespread play on radio stations.

   A smash club banger, play it all night long / You never get on without a radio song / So this my radio song

   2011, “Radio Song”, in XXX, performed by Danny Brown

   2 more examples

   Quite a few songs have been popularized over the radio and made famous, but the success of a popular radio song as a rule is short lived.

   1926 January 29, Clarence A. Stout, “The Songwriting Game”, in The Writer's Digest, volume 6, number 2, page 44

   Philips sounds like the stodgiest Top 40 programmer when he talks about why a typical Prodigy song doesn't work well on 99X: "What are you supposed to do to it? There's nothing to sing along to; there's no lyric per se. There's no traditional melody or harmony. It's a little bit...abstract to work as a traditional radio song.

   1998 February 28, Keith Moerer, “Who Killed Rock Radio?”, in Spin Magazine, volume 14, number 2, page 78