Today is the season finalé of 480 Minutes, now in it's 13th year.

All week I've been getting e-mails and IMs and Facebook messages telling me there's no new 480 Minutes show this week. Who started that rumor? Was it you, Lopez? I bet it was Lopez. Anyway, I am here to tell you that was a rumor, nothing more. There is indeed a new edition of our Friday live show today.

The award-winning 480 Minutes show today will feature NO new songs! Never fear, we are not switching formats, we are not about to start playing both kinds of music (country AND western, duh!), this "no new additions" thing happens every year as the calendar turns to December. After Thanksgiving new submissions are allowed to pile up while we do our annual Beatles cleanse (listening to Beatles-only for a week or two) before embarking on the annual project of reviewing, ranking, re-ranking, and re-re-ranking the hundreds of songs added to rotation in the past year. That project culminates with our year-end best-of 2017 480 Minutes show which will happen this year on Friday 12/15.