Adult Contemporary radio – those endless loops of Elton and Phil Collins and Micahel Bolton and… a 2001 survey of Canadian radio revealed that 23 percent of all listening time on the radio was devoted to this format. But those familiar songs that have been played over and over again for the past decade – “just when it seemed these radio-friendly legacies would never go away – all right, 16 or 17 years after it seemed they wouldn’t go away – it seems like now they just might…”