November 3, 201015 yr Wow. Nice to see Radio 1 being a bit more open with the public! :) Should help its popularity. I think it would be a good idea if they put up a poll, to let the public decide on one song that gets on the playlist every week. And they should playlist some album tracks occasionally, imo. And great to see Like a G6 on the B-List. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't get #1.
November 3, 201015 yr Have they playlisted Blood Red Shoes before? No idea why they're re-releasing that, stronger songs on the album.
November 3, 201015 yr "Heartsink" was B-listed I think, and "Don't Ask Why" went 1-Up Front. Who cares to be honest, 6 Music aren't playlisting it - probably because they already did on its original release.
November 3, 201015 yr # Playlist: Coming back to Paolo again next week for a likely add about 8 hours ago via Twitter for iPad # Playlist: From Shy FX to... Paolo Nutini 'Coming Up Easy' about 8 hours ago via Twitter for iPad REALLY?! Another re-release when no one really gives a $h!t? :|
November 3, 201015 yr * Afrojack featuring Eva Simons - Takeover Control - EPIC! * Blood Red Shoes - Light It Up - Bit late now isn't it? * Olly Murs - Thinking Of Me - :) * Willow Smith - Whip My Hair - #1 here we come :dance:
November 4, 201015 yr Great additions @ Willow, Blood Red Shoes, KOL and Nicole. :D The Gorillaz up to B-List :wub: Surprised to see Nicki Minaj on the playlist. :o Glad they are showing interest in her. I don't think Right Thru Me will be a hit hopefully it will reach top 40. Hope I'm proved wrong. It's also surprising Ke$ha hasn't be added hopefully next week if not then it's very worrying.
November 4, 201015 yr Willow, Nicole Scherzinger are great additions! Also nice to see Afrojack, Far East Movement & Black Eyed Peas on the up. Would like to see Ke$ha "We R Who We R" as that song has a big chance of top five, maybe beating "Tik Tok"'s peak?
November 4, 201015 yr Author # Playlist: Coming back to Paolo again next week for a likely add about 8 hours ago via Twitter for iPad # Playlist: From Shy FX to... Paolo Nutini 'Coming Up Easy' about 8 hours ago via Twitter for iPad REALLY?! Another re-release when no one really gives a $h!t? :| They always bum his releases...
November 4, 201015 yr Olly :w00t: :w00t: Very happy for Brandon and Nicole aswell! Too bad they didn't playlist Shayne, but I'm not that surprised.
November 4, 201015 yr If Paolo wanted a re-release for the 5th single he should have gone for Coming Up Easy in the first place instead of being stupid and re-releasing Candy which was a decent sized top 20 hit already... The re-release of CUE might go top 75 if Candy could re-enter the top 100 for 5 extra weeks after having already been a decent hit... CUE peaked at #62. Also his profile has been raised a bit since CUE's release with Pencil Full Of Lead becoming his second biggest hit ever. Obviously the album's huge sales will be an issue, but again, Candy went top 100 for 5 weeks on its re-release earlier this year and the album can't have sold that much more since then Edited November 4, 201015 yr by ~ braysammich ~
November 4, 201015 yr It's like Paloma Faith's New York re-release all over again. That was also a top 20 hit and she (her label) still decided to re-release it.
November 4, 201015 yr It's like Paloma Faith's New York re-release all over again. That was also a top 20 hit and she (her label) still decided to re-release it. To be fair they at least released a new version of it... the new version wasn't the one that was promoted but still. Candy was a flat-out re-release, nothing was changed about it.
November 4, 201015 yr its good to read the twitter info about the playlist meeting - avviici will be added next week then as they said 5 weeks before release was too early to add it!! great insight!!people who complain on here every week should go online and listen to the head of musics interview too - i asked a question about the xx's re-release of islands - cant believe he answered it also eric ^they used to add big album releases to the clist for a few weeks!!
November 4, 201015 yr Two of my favourite songs of the year playlisted, Whip My Hair & Poison :wub: :w00t:
November 4, 201015 yr Far East! Nicole! Willow! Such amazing additions :wub: Amazing to see Gyptian A-List too :heart: Great to see Nicki moving up too :wub:
November 5, 201015 yr If anyone's interested - 3 Nov 2010 - Nigel Harding (Music Executive) explains how Radio 1 uses music research Every week Radio 1 asks a panel of listeners what they think of the music they hear on the station. Using an online music research company, the Radio 1 Music Team selects the 25 biggest tracks from the playlist to be rated by 400 listeners between the ages of 12 and 30 from all over the UK (the largest such panel of any radio station in the country). Each respondent hears a 20 second clip of a track's chorus and then we ask them a series of questions. Their answers tell us how familiar a track has become, how much the listeners like (or hate!) it, and whether they want to hear it more or less often. These responses help us decide which tracks should be played the most and, more importantly, when to stop playing them. The overall results are compiled into a weekly chart of our Top 25 songs. Research is only ever used for tracks the playlist team has already decided to play - it doesn't influence the decision on whether to add tracks to the playlist in the first place. In fact, we won't research a track until it has been played between 50-100 times on air as we want to make sure our listeners will have heard it several times before we ask them what they think. So why does Radio 1 use research? The most important reason is because it's the most accurate means of finding out specifically what Radio 1 listeners think about the music we play. The Official Chart is a good indicator of public taste but it doesn't tell the whole story as not every listener is necessarily a regular music buyer (for instance, compare the Radio 1 audience figures of over 11 million with the 157,000 people who bought last Sunday's No.1 single by Cheryl Cole). An example of how revealing music research can be regards Mumford & Sons. The band reached no higher than No.31 in the Official Singles Chart in 2010 but have been one of the most-played acts on Radio 1 across the year. One of the reasons (other than the fact that we love them!) is because every one of those tracks we played has featured in the Top 10 of our research chart. Of course, with 50 songs on the playlist we can't research all of them - and we don't want to. Part of Radio 1's mission is to push musical boundaries and whether or not a particular track researches well is irrelevant if the playlist team has chosen to include it simply because we consider it a ground-breaking piece of music that deserves to be heard. These are the 10 songs Radio 1 listeners loved the most this week: Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (Amazing) Cee-Lo Green - Forget You Tinie Tempah - Written In The Stars Swedish House Mafia & Tinie Tempah - Miami 2 Ibiza Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand Kings Of Leon - Radioactive Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page Jay Sean feat. Nicky Minaj - 2012 (It's Not The End Of The World) Devlin feat. Yasmin - Runaway Also - there's a video interview with the head of music where he discusses, amongst other things, why they playlisted Bad Boys but not Start Without You. It's on the Radio 1 Access All Areas page. Can't post a link as the forum won't let me.
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