2015: Part II

2015: Part I

2014

Some recent news...

 

On Tuesday 19 January, BBC Radio 1’s Future Festival will return for a three-hour show (7-10pm) hosted by Annie Mac and Huw Stephens. The intimate gig which will be broadcast live on Radio 1 will showcase some of the newest and most exciting artists to hit the music scene in 2016.

Among the line-up and performing live from the famous Maida Vale studios will be Billie Marten, Loyle Carner, Mura Masa, Nao, Pretty Vicious, Rationale, Section Boyz and VANT.

BBC Radio 1 announced the new line-up for BBC Radio 1’s Residency - the strand that brings listeners the biggest names in dance music, from the underground to the arena - with music producers Steve Angello, Oliver Heldens and Nina Kraviz amongst the names that will be taking over Radio 1’s airwaves from January 2016.

Dub Phizix & Strategy and Kode9 will also be joining the Residency team.

 

Ali Plumb will become the new film critic for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra. Ali, who is currently the Movies Editor at Digital Spy, and was previously a writer at Empire, will be joining the stations in January, taking over from Rhianna Dhillon.

Edited January 2, 20169 yr by lewistgreen

Here are the top 40 most supported songs on Radio 1 in 2015.

 

Rank/Plays/Chart peak

1. Mark Ronson — Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) 330 / #1

2. Years & Years — King 288 / #1

3. Ellie Goulding — Love Me Like You Do 276 / #1

4. James Bay — Hold Back the River 255 / #2

5. Alex Adair — Make Me Feel Better 255 / #13

6. Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney — FourFiveSeconds 237 / #3

7. Blonde — All Cried Out (feat. Alex Newell) 234 / #4

8. Philip George — Wish You Were Mine 232 / #2

9. Jess Glynne — Hold My Hand 230 / #1

10. Fetty Wap — Trap Queen 228 / #8

How Deep is Your Love would be roughly here

11. Adele — Hello 227 / #1

12. Wiz Khalifa — See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth) 226 / #1

13 Years & Years - Shine 221 / #2

14. Omi — Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) 220 / #1

15. Hozier — Take Me to Church 218 / #2

16. Major Lazer — Lean On (feat. MØ) 215 / #2

17. The Weeknd — Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) 214 / #4

18. Taylor Swift — Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) 213 / #4

19. Walk the Moon — Shut Up and Dance 210 / #4

20. Kelly Clarkson — Heartbeat Song 207 / #7

21. Lunchmoney Lewis — Bills 206 / #2

22. Ed Sheeran — Bloodstream 204 /#2

23. Echosmith — Cool Kids 202 / #17

24. Foo Fighters — Congregation 202 / DID NOT CHART

25. Nick Jonas — Jealous 202 / #2

26. Little Mix — Black Magic 202 #1

27. Karen Harding — Say Something 199 #7

28. The Vaccines — Handsome 198 #74

29. Michael Calfan — Treasured Soul 196 #17

30. Lost Frequencies — Are You With Me 194 /#1

31. David Guetta — What I Did for Love (feat. Emeli Sandé) 193 / #6

32. DJ Fresh — Gravity (feat. Ella Eyre) 193 / #4

33. Krept & Konan — Freak of the Week (feat. Jeremih) 191 / #9

34. The Chemical Brothers — Go (feat. Q‐Tip) 191 / #46

35. Naughty Boy — Runnin' (Lose It All) (feat. Beyoncé & Arrow Benjamin) 188 /#4

36. The Weeknd — Can't Feel My Face 186 / #3

37. Charli XCX — Doing It (feat. Rita Ora) 185 / #8

38. Hozier — Someone New 184 / #19

39. Florence + the Machine — What Kind of Man 183 / #37

40. Kygo — Firestone (feat. Conrad Sewell) 181 / #8

 

Some slight inaccuracies because the scrobbler broke for a couple of weeks, but I tried to add in those missing scrobbles from the twitter log, and some songs would have had multiple versions, but for the most part it accurate.

So many great songs they've heavily supported there. Uptown Funk, All Cried Out, FourFiveSeconds, Trap Queen, See You Again, Cheerleader, Lean On, Earned It, Bloodstream, Say Something, Gravity, Freak Of The Week, Runnin', Can't Feel My Face. 2015 had lots of great chart hits. :wub:

interesting that they played Make Me Feel Better so much but it didn't do too brilliantly in the chart. I imagine commercial radio didn't give it much time of day which would explain the chart performance -_-

Surprised Rae Sremmurd isn't in that list :lol:

Surprised Rae Sremmurd isn't in that list :lol:

 

With which song? They played both "No Type" and "This Could Be Us" to death :lol:

 

Here are the top 40 most supported songs on Radio 1 in 2015.

'How Deep Is Your Love' appears to be suspiciously missing from that list. For a song that spent 10 weeks on the A-list (second only to 'Love Me Like You Do') and still gets played fairly regularly, I find it quite hard to believe it wouldn't be in the Top 40? I know it was released in the second half of the year, but then so was 'Shine' which spent less time on the playlist but still appears at #13. Could you have missed it by mistake?

'How Deep Is Your Love' appears to be suspiciously missing from that list. For a song that spent 10 weeks on the A-list (second only to 'Love Me Like You Do') and still gets played fairly regularly, I find it quite hard to believe it wouldn't be in the Top 40? I know it was released in the second half of the year, but then so was 'Shine' which spent less time on the playlist but still appears at #13. Could you have missed it by mistake?

 

It's showing up as 67, which I agree is odd and it looks like the peak (three of the weeks that the song was on A list) were when Radio 1 had an outage with the scrobbles, as explained in the post, so not really my mistake but Radio 1's. With that taken into account it's probably nearing the top 10. I tried to up weigh some of the songs that were during this time but that song was so far down the list I didn't even notice it! It's just 3/4 weeks for the whole year missing though.

 

^^ Yeah, that would explain it.

 

In slight contrast to the above list, here are the songs which spent the longest on Radio 1's playlist in 2015.

 

12 weeks:

Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do

 

10 weeks:

The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face

Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love

 

9 weeks:

Adele - Hello

Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood

Ed Sheeran & Rudimental - Bloodstream

Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

Jess Glynne - Hold My Hand

Years & Years - King

Years & Years - Shine

Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?

David Guetta feat. Emeli Sandé - What I Did For Love

 

8 weeks:

Rihanna feat. Kanye West & Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds

James Bay - Hold Back The River

Little Mix - Black Magic

Foo Fighters - Congregation

Sigala - Easy Love

Kygo feat. Conrad - Firestone

Disclosure feat. Sam Smith - Omen

Ellie Goulding - On My Mind

Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth - See You Again

Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me

One Direction - Drag Me Down

Sigma feat. Ella Henderson - Glitterball

Tinie Tempah feat. Jess Glynne - Not Letting Go

Sam Smith - Writing's On The Wall

 

(In case anyone's wondering, Uptown Funk isn't included because it was added in early December but FTR it was on the playlist for 9 weeks).

ToTD's in the first proper week in January are always Sound Of 20// nominees aren't they?

ToTD's in the first proper week in January are always Sound Of 20// nominees aren't they?

Yes it has been the last two years :)

I'm looking forward to getting back to normal sorta. Wanna hear some 2016 music please :)

I'm looking forward to getting back to normal sorta. Wanna hear some 2016 music please :)

 

It would be nice if Bieber can be left in 2015, but that's not going to happen! :P

Lol be prepared for at least two more top 10 singles from him this yr I'd say!

Looks like 'Cheerleader' and 'Heartbeat Song' are the only two from that top 40 that didn't make the A-list, if my memory's correct. That's great for Kelly, not too different from 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)' which only made the B-list but seemed to be one of their most played songs back in 2012. Very pleased to see that!

 

I know it's not too surprising because it's Adele but I wouldn't have predicted 'Hello' so high as it's so recent. Other than that, I'm glad to see Charli XCX there as I wasn't sure how much support she'd get at this time last year, after 'Break The Rules' bombed.

New playlist is up, listing Louisa and Justin as new again. Craig David, France's and Panic seem to be added this week, not last. With Kygo, Martin and 1D up to B (though Infinity is still listed).

ToTDs (yes, there are 2 today)

 

Mura Masa - Love For That (feat. Shura)

 

WSTRN - Got Love

Both artists came joint 5th in the Sound of top 5!

I thought Mura Masa was Allready TOTD?