insane amount of plays for 'Desire' considering it wasn't even a hit but yay! 'Breathe' top 20 is also great to see.

 

as if '17' is top 40 for the year with its 2017 release date too.

Am I blind or are the 1975 not in the top 50?

 

Surprised Catfish and Sam Fender aren't higher but glad Vampire Weekend are there.

I'm just now catching up on the "20 years of Radio 1 Anthems" that they did from Boxing Day to New Year's Eve, and I'm really enjoying it! So many songs that you never hear anymore and I'm actually discovering songs I missed out on at the time! I know we were disappointed when this was announced instead of a proper end-of-decade countdown, but this was a great alternative.

I'm just now catching up on the "20 years of Radio 1 Anthems" that they did from Boxing Day to New Year's Eve, and I'm really enjoying it! So many songs that you never hear anymore and I'm actually discovering songs I missed out on at the time! I know we were disappointed when this was announced instead of a proper end-of-decade countdown, but this was a great alternative.

Agreed, I listened to most of it too! Was slightly frustrating when they played Riptide in both 2013 and 2014 and then A Sky Full of Stars in both 2014 and 2015 though, they already had to cut a lot of songs short and leave several really good songs out so hearing them twice in about two hours wasn't ideal. Enjoyed being reminded of various songs that don't get played much now though!

Playlist predictions for tomorrow:

I don’t usually do this but there’s so much stuff that’s out that Radio 1 doesn’t have on their playlist at the moment, here’s what I think they’ll add tomorrow:

• Eminem - Godzilla (straight to a List) they’ll surely add this if it’s got a good chance of being number 1 tomorrow

• Calvin Harris - Whichever song is more mainstream (straight to a list) They always insta add new Calvin and I don’t see this one being any different

• J Hus - Big Conspiracy (straight to c list) They insta added him on the a list last year with Must Be. I don’t think that will happen this time but I still think an insta add will happen

• Hayley Williams - Simmer (c list) Radio 1 love Paramore so I think this will immediately get lots of support from them.

• Digdat ft. Aitch - Ei8ht Mile (c list) I think this song is doing too well in the charts for them to ignore

• Georgia - 24 hrs (c list) Another artist that radio 1 loves, Greg James’ tune of the week last week too means it’s surely going to get added at some point soon

• Doja Cat - Say So (c list) For a song that’s not on the playlist, this seems to have been played lots over the last few days.

• Tame Impala - Lost In Yesterday (c list) Got a feeling this might be added too

• Jonas Brothers - What a man gotta do (c list) Tune of the weekend last weekend makes me think that this will probably be added this week

I think those are pretty spot on predictions actually. Is the Calvin Harris single definitely out this week?

Those predictions look pretty good. If Calvins out he will def be added straight away. Not so sure about Eminem maybe an instant B List add because I'm not sure they look at him as A List material any longer due to how far into his career he is. 'Fall was B-Listed for Apr 5/6 weeks and 'Lucky You' was C-Listed for 3/4 weeks.

 

There's also a lot of instant add songs there, not sure radio 1 will go that mad but I would love it. Tame Impala def will as their albums out on the 14/2/20, 3 weeks away.

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I expect something from Eminem will be added but it might be 'Darkness' instead of 'Godzilla' because that is meant to be the official single, 'Godzilla' has just taken off of its own accord because of being Juice WRLD's first posthumous release and the only really good song on the album.

 

Mind, I'm not sure 'Darkness' is really a particularly radio friendly song :P

At one point I thought the Ed collab was the official single - so now I'm really confused to what actually is (not that 'official' singles really mean much these days).

Playlist predictions for tomorrow:

I don’t usually do this but there’s so much stuff that’s out that Radio 1 doesn’t have on their playlist at the moment, here’s what I think they’ll add tomorrow:

• Eminem - Godzilla (straight to a List) they’ll surely add this if it’s got a good chance of being number 1 tomorrow

• Calvin Harris - Whichever song is more mainstream (straight to a list) They always insta add new Calvin and I don’t see this one being any different

• J Hus - Big Conspiracy (straight to c list) They insta added him on the a list last year with Must Be. I don’t think that will happen this time but I still think an insta add will happen

• Hayley Williams - Simmer (c list) Radio 1 love Paramore so I think this will immediately get lots of support from them.

• Digdat ft. Aitch - Ei8ht Mile (c list) I think this song is doing too well in the charts for them to ignore

• Georgia - 24 hrs (c list) Another artist that radio 1 loves, Greg James’ tune of the week last week too means it’s surely going to get added at some point soon

• Doja Cat - Say So (c list) For a song that’s not on the playlist, this seems to have been played lots over the last few days.

• Tame Impala - Lost In Yesterday (c list) Got a feeling this might be added too

• Jonas Brothers - What a man gotta do (c list) Tune of the weekend last weekend makes me think that this will probably be added this week

 

Quite pleased with that, 7 out of 9 isn’t bad. It’s just Brockhampton (who I thought might be added next week) and Twin Atlantic (who id never have got) that I missed.

 

You should do it again next week and see if you can improve your score.

Radio 1’s Big Weekend is coming to Dundee from the 22nd to the 24th of May. These are the confirmed artists so far:

• AJ Tracey

• Biffy Clyro

• Calvin Harris

• Camila Cabello

• Dua Lipa

• Harry Styles

 

Nice to see Biffy on there, I’m assuming they must be releasing new music soon. They also haven’t announced if any of those are headliners however I would expect that Calvin would headline the Friday night dance stage and possibly Dua and Harry will headline the other two days?

Wow class to see Biffy Clyro on the bill which means there's a good chance he will be supported for yet another era by Radio 1st daytime playlist. I would say Biffy should be one of the headliners I would think?

 

Has the big weekend not been in Dundee already quite recently?

Given it's in Scotland as well I wouldn't be surprised to see Biffy headline

Radio 1's Big Weekend was in Dundee in 2006, if that counts as recently?

Wow class to see Biffy Clyro on the bill which means there's a good chance he will be supported for yet another era by Radio 1st daytime playlist. I would say Biffy should be one of the headliners I would think?

 

Has the big weekend not been in Dundee already quite recently?

Also, Biffy isn't a he! :cool:

I'm just thinking of the lead singer but yes your right of course!

Radio 1's Big Weekend was in Dundee in 2006, if that counts as recently?

 

Feels recent and considering they try and bringing it to places that don't normally get big events I would think twice in 15 yrs is too much?!

I'm just thinking of the lead singer but yes your right of course!

Ah I'm glad to hear :lol:

Coming to my home town *.*