I wish Radio 1 would play this underrated recent Christmas song, it's one of my favourites yet you never hear it on the radio.

 

 

Released in 2010, though I only first heard it a few years later!

From the BBC Media Pack:

 

From Monday 5 December, Radio 1 will have its Christmas hat on and will be broadcasting a selection of Christmas mixes every day until Friday 23 December. From 5-18 December there will be party mixes, and from 19 December there will be Christmas songs all the way up to 23 December.

 

The festive mixes such as ‘Christmas Lights Switch One’ will be broadcast every morning (9.45-10.15am), weekday afternoons (3.45-4.15pm) and weekend afternoons (2.45-3.15pm), warming listeners up for their Christmas celebrations.

I wish Radio 1 would play this underrated recent Christmas song, it's one of my favourites yet you never hear it on the radio.

 

 

Released in 2010, though I only first heard it a few years later!

 

When this was released radio 2 only playlisted it radio 1 seemed to only give them one era worth of support. Think radio 2 still give it a few spins every year!

Friendly reminder that the Christmas Mixes start tomorrow. They are like the Summer Mixes, only with a different name! Timings are the same as the Summer Mixes so you will hear them from 9:45am-10:15am and 3:45pm-4:15pm weekdays and 2:45pm-3:15pm on weekends.

They should make these Christmas mixes half 3 to 4 on weekdays so it doesn't interfere with the chart

Yeah thats the way it has always been TMD 24. They ramp it 1 xmas song first week...2 songs week after then 3 songs xmas week

 

 

Yeh that's the policy, sounds right too, think of it like the playlist - in the first week they are C listed, week two B listed then full support in the third week and from the 20th onwards they play a song every half hour while by Xmas eve/day they play Xmas songs all day!

Listening to R1 yesterday and they played Step Into Christmas by Elton John :o I know there is a lack of currrent Christmas themed songs around in 21st century but didnt realise it was so bad that R1 have to break their policy about not playing old songs!

 

The policy doesn't apply to Xmas songs it seems. They also play Bing Cosby, Andy Williams & Perry Como in December and they are even older!

I think I've heard them play 'Santa Baby' too last year, not the Kylie Minogue version either the original from 1953. They always seem to play the classics as that's what the people want.

Yeh and I've heard them play Great Big Sled by The Killers, Leona and Kelly Clarkson in recent years too!

R1's Best New Pop 4/12/16:

 

Robin Schulz & David Guetta - Shed A Light (feat. Cheat Codes)

Starley & Ryan Riback - Call On Me

Dua Lipa - Be The One

Callum Scott - Rhythm Inside

Zara Larsson - I Would Like

Lukas Graham - You're Not There

Sigala & Digital Farm Animals - Only One

Charlie Puth - Dangerously

Machine Gun Kelly - Bad Things (feat. Camila Cabello)

Ruth B - Lost Boy

Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles (feat. Gucci Mane)

Tkay Maidza - Simulation

Naughty Boy - Should've Been Me (feat. Kyla & Popcaan)

Alessia Cara - Scars To Your Beautiful

Mike Perry - Inside The Lines (feat. Casso)

Alan Walker - Alone

Noah Cyrus - Make Me (Cry) (feat. Labrinth)

 

Bold = New Entry

 

Bit late for Lost Boy isn't it? It was TOTD earlier this year so I'm surprised it's took them this long to start really supporting this... :mellow:

I am listenin to the Christmas mix and so far only the Coldplay song was a Christmas one WTF..I though they played 30 min of Christmas songs

TOTD 05/12/16

 

Zara Larsson - I Would Like

 

Dua Lipa - Be The One

I guess 'Be The One' is definitely heading for a re-release then

Radio 1's Most Played

1. NEIKED - Sexual (2-4-13-1-)

2. Bruno Mars - 24k Magic (4-2-1-1-2-2-)

3. Louisa Johnson - So Good (6-3-)

4. Little Mix - Shout Out to My Ex (1-6-2-9-4)

5. Maroon 5 ft. Kendrick Lamar - Don't Wanna Know (10-5-)

6. Mura Masa ft. A$AP Rocky - Love$ick (14-6-)

7. Fifth Harmony - That's My Girl (6-5-7-)

8. Chance The Rapper ft. 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne - No Problem (8-)

9. Christine & The Queens - Saint Claude (14-7-9-)

10. The 1975 - She's American (8-10-)

11. Biffy Clyro - Re-arrange (11-)

12. Kings Of Leon - Find Me (12-)

13. Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye (11-1-13-)

14. Drake - Fake Love (15-14-)

15. Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles (15-)

 

Dropouts

Hailee Steinfeld - Starving ft. Grey & Zedd (3-3-5-3-)

Galantis & Hook N Sling - Love On Me (11-9-4-)

The Weeknd - Starboy ft. Daft Punk (14-10-10-3-11-)

twenty one pilots - Lane Boy (14-10-12-)

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Sexual's chart run on this.

 

And another one to appreciate the fact that #1 and #13 have switched places

BBC Radio 1's Christmas Mix - Christmas Lights:

 

Coldplay - Christmas Lights

David Guetta - Turn Me On (feat. Nicki Minaj)

Major Lazer - Light It Up (feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG)

Rita Ora - Shine Ya Light

Kanye West - All Of The Lights (feat. Rihanna & Kid Cudi)

Chase & Status & Sub Focus - Flashing Lights (feat. Takura)

Wiley - Lights On

Jessie J - Lazerlight

Sean Paul - Gimme The Light

Florence & The Machine - No Light, No Light

Katy B - Lights On (feat. Ms. Dynamite)

CeeLo Green - Bright Lights, Big City (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

 

BBC Radio 1's Christmas Mix - Wild In The Aisles:

 

Destiny’s Child - 8 Days of Christmas

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

Jessie J - Price Tag (feat. B.o.B)

Sam Smith - Money On My Mind

Jennifer Lopez - Love Don’t Cost A Thing

Galantis - No Money

Fergie - Labels Or Love

Olly Murs - Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy)

Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers)

 

I am listenin to the Christmas mix and so far only the Coldplay song was a Christmas one WTF..I though they played 30 min of Christmas songs

 

The first 2 weeks are party songs while the last week is fully Christmas songs. :)

I actually liked that mix! A few questionable choices but I'll take throwbacks like Love Don't Cost A Thing, Lights On, and Bright Lights Bigger City over Christmas songs even in December :P

Radio 1's Specialist Chart

 

(05/12/2016)

1. Skream "You Know, Right?"

2. Stefflon Don "Real Ting"

3. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes "Wild Flowers"

4. Lower Than Atlantis "Had Enough"

5. P Money ft. JME & Wiley "Gunfingers" [last week's #3]

6. Chance The Rapper & Knox Brown "All Night"

7. The Big Moon "Formidable" [last week's #9]

8. Cassius ft. Pharrell Williams & Cat Power "Go Up"

9. Tom Grennan "Something In The Water"

10. Laura Marling "Soothing"

 

 

(28/11/2016)

1 Childish Gambino "Redbone"

2 You Me At Six "Swear"

3 P Money ft. JME & Wiley "Gunfingers"

4 THEY. "What You Want"

5 Bossman Birdie ft. JME "My Yard"

6 Circa Waves "Wake Up"

7 The Amazons "Little Something"

8 Loyle Carner "The Isle of Arran" [last week's #1]

9 The Big Moon "Formidable" [last week's #6]

10 Pulled Apart By Horses "The Big What If"

 

TOTD 06/12/16

 

Sundara Karma - Flame

 

^^ Strange choice for them to be re-releasing Flame.