"Radio" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Darius Rucker. It was released on July 22, 2013 as the third single from his album True Believers. Rucker wrote the song with Luke Laird and Ashley Gorley. Content The song is a reflection on the narrator's teenage years; specifically, of borrowing his mother's car to take his girlfriend for a ride, and listening to songs on the radio while doing so. Critical reception The song generally received favorable reviews. Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave the song four and a half stars out of five, saying that "it sounds like the kind of fun song you would want to hear on the radio at a memorable moment." Peacock praised Rucker's "all-smiles delivery" and the song's "incredibly catchy melody and tight production." He also compared its theme to "I Watched It All (On My Radio)" by Lionel Cartwright. Tammy Ragusa of Country Weekly gave the song an A grade, calling it "the perfect marriage of an artist’s effervescent personality with an upbeat song, this one about the love of music." Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song two and a half stars out of five, writing that "the uptempo tribute to young love, open roads and, of course, the radio is familiar and easy to fall for, especially when powered by Rucker’s unequaled exuberance." However, Dukes also called the song "a little fluffy" and "not difficult to forget." Chart performance "Radio" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart for the week of August 3, 2013. It also debuted at number 50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 14, 2013. It also debuted at number 96 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of November 2, 2013. It also debuted at number 95 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of December 14, 2013.

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Notable quotes

“Listening to a foreign radio station is something that declines when local media become freer and provide what local people most want to hear. According to BBC audience research, in most cases the BBC achieved large audiences (20% and more) only where the choice of local services was limited to 5 or fewer stations. As choice grows, BBC audiences fall.”
— BBC, Audience research at the BBC World Service 1932-2010, Participation, Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 2011, p. 95; as qtd in UNESCO, “Statistics on Radio”, (Feb 13, 2013).
“For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.”
— Georges Duhamel, In Defense of Letters (1937), E. Bozman, trans. (1939), p. 35
“The most significant meaning of freedom of the radio is the right of the American people to listen to this great medium of communications free from any governmental dictation as to what they can or cannot hear and free alike from similar restraints by private licensees.”
— Editorializing by Broadcast Licensees, Report of the Commission, 13 F.C.C.1246, 1257, 1 20 (1949); as quoted by R. Trevor Hall & James C. Phillips, “THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IN LIGHT OF HOSTILE MEDIA PERCEPTION”, COMMLAW CONSPECTUS, Vol.19, p.400
“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
— Nikola Tesla, On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73 ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230 .
“Radio is a wonderful invention! One movement of the hand, and nothing is heard.”
— Radio to cudowny wynalazek! Jeden ruch ręki - i nic nie słychać.
“Radio is a beehive in which the whole world buzz can be heard.”
— Myśli ludzi wielkich, średnich oraz psa Fafika, Przekrój magazine, #718, P. 13

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Overview

"Radio" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Darius Rucker. It was released on July 22, 2013 as the third single from his album True Believers. Rucker wrote the song with Luke Laird and Ashley Gorley. Content The song is a reflection on the narrator's teenage years; specifically, of borrowing his mother's car to take his girlfriend for a ride, and listening to songs on the radio while doing so. Critical reception The song generally received favorable reviews. Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave the song four and a half stars out of five, saying that "it sounds like the kind of fun song you would want to hear on the radio at a memorable moment." Peacock praised Rucker's "all-smiles delivery" and the song's "incredibly catchy melody and tight production." He also compared its theme to "I Watched It All (On My Radio)" by Lionel Cartwright. Tammy Ragusa of Country Weekly gave the song an A grade, calling it "the perfect marriage of an artist’s effervescent personality with an upbeat song, this one about the love of music." Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song two and a half stars out of five, writing that "the uptempo tribute to young love, open roads and, of course, the radio is familiar and easy to fall for, especially when powered by Rucker’s unequaled exuberance." However, Dukes also called the song "a little fluffy" and "not difficult to forget." Chart performance "Radio" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart for the week of August 3, 2013. It also debuted at number 50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 14, 2013. It also debuted at number 96 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of November 2, 2013. It also debuted at number 95 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of December 14, 2013.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"Radio" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Darius Rucker. It was released on July 22, 2013 as the third single from his album True Believers. Rucker wrote the song with Luke Laird and Ashley Gorley.

Notable quotes

“Listening to a foreign radio station is something that declines when local media become freer and provide what local people most want to hear. According to BBC audience research, in most cases the BBC achieved large audiences (20% and more) only where the choice of local services was limited to 5 or fewer stations. As choice grows, BBC audiences fall.”
— BBC, Audience research at the BBC World Service 1932-2010, Participation, Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 2011, p. 95; as qtd in UNESCO, “Statistics on Radio”, (Feb 13, 2013).
“For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.”
— Georges Duhamel, In Defense of Letters (1937), E. Bozman, trans. (1939), p. 35
“The most significant meaning of freedom of the radio is the right of the American people to listen to this great medium of communications free from any governmental dictation as to what they can or cannot hear and free alike from similar restraints by private licensees.”
— Editorializing by Broadcast Licensees, Report of the Commission, 13 F.C.C.1246, 1257, 1 20 (1949); as quoted by R. Trevor Hall & James C. Phillips, “THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IN LIGHT OF HOSTILE MEDIA PERCEPTION”, COMMLAW CONSPECTUS, Vol.19, p.400
“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
— Nikola Tesla, On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73 ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230 .
“Radio is a wonderful invention! One movement of the hand, and nothing is heard.”
— Radio to cudowny wynalazek! Jeden ruch ręki - i nic nie słychać.
“Radio is a beehive in which the whole world buzz can be heard.”
— Myśli ludzi wielkich, średnich oraz psa Fafika, Przekrój magazine, #718, P. 13

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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