# Talk:Snow on the Beach

I think that this song should be classified as a single. A Billboard director announced that promotion began for it at Triple A radio back in November (https://twitter.com/gthot20/status/1588265840863940609), and it was the most added song to that format that week. It's been charting on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart for 9 weeks, and neither artist has ever had a non-single on that chart. I think it's safe to say that this is a single.
71.234.178.78 (talk) 04:20, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Absolutely agree. But sadly en.wiki community don't want to identify it as a single... 31.159.104.101 (talk) 18:49, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Two newly created IP accounts "agreeing" to "make" SOTB a single on Wikipedia is not the "consensus" you think it is. As per WP:SINGLESCRIT, SOTB cannot be considered a single as no reliable source has been cited. Regards. ℛonherry☘ 06:23, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

This topic had been brought up years ago (and a few times since), but I'm hoping to add more information. I believe "Snow on the Beach" should be classified as a single, as it impacted US adult alternative (triple A) radio on November 7, 2022.

First off, on November 3, 2022, the song was reported to be "promoted to adult alternative radio" by a Billboard senior director [1]. This had been mentioned before on this talk page, and I agree that it is insufficient to call the song a single based on this statement alone due to its ambiguity.
Also on November 3, however, radio update account USRadioUpdater tweeted that the song would "officially impact US Triple A Radio" on November 7 [2]. This statement is not ambiguous and gives the specific radio impact date for the song. As for the validity and reliability of this source, other Wikipedia editors have reached out to USRadioUpdater and have proven that they have close ties with the music industry and some record labels [3]. USRadioUpdater has also been sourced by Billboard in an article [4]. Furthermore, many Wikipedia articles currently cite USRadioUpdater for radio impact dates, such as "The Boy Is Mine", "Birds of a Feather", and "You Look Like You Love Me", the latter of which cites their X/Twitter account.
Upon its impact date, "Snow on the Beach" was the most-added song at adult alternative radio [5]. This means that the single release did actually occur, unlike rare occasions where songs have announced radio dates that are later canceled (ex. the canceled country radio release of "Glow").
I believe it's also worth mentioning that the song did chart at the adult alternative format soon after its impact date [6]. Given that Swift's only prior entries were released as singles to the format ("Exile" and "Coney Island"), along with the fact that this is not one of Swift's usual formats, it seems highly unlikely that the song would chart for nine weeks from unsolicited airplay.
Abby Abangan (talk) 23:06, 3 June 2025 (UTC)