Hit Parade

A show called Hit Parade travels from coast to coast and from genre to genre to discover what makes a good song truly sing. Hit Parade takes on current events as an anchor to its bimonthly journeys down music's memory lane with a nice mix of deadpan comedy and the customary high-quality production you can anticipate from a Slate podcast.

Take the part on the hit song "Friends in Low Places" by country music legend Garth Brooks. His popularity was aided by genre experimenting and airplay on popular radio stations, which helped him achieve this top-charting hit. Over twenty years later, you can still observe this tendency in America's current infatuation with K-Pop. Ultimately, a song takes more than just talent, luck, or timing to make it a smash hit, but what makes Hit Parade a smash podcast is simple. The show is producing the music content you didn’t know you wanted, with a production value that other podcasts forget is needed.

Link: open.spotify.com/show/4GqbdfOT9Je4nEp5BqnGit