On 14/08/2026 at 02:50, Jay79x said:

One of them was Coincidence which earnt its first ever play on Radio 1 yesterday 😭

bringing this up here cos i wanna get some thoughts on whether you guys think it’s right for songs Radio 1 avoided / never played to be brought onto anthems. I saw some talk of songs like Blu Cantrell - Breathe infamously getting ignored and then is treated like this massive Radio 1 Anthem. My trouble comes with songs they never played before (Sabrina Carpenter had another one this week with ‘Nobody's Son’) getting added to anthems? I think it's a little redundant to use the anthems terminology if radio 1 didn't back them to begin with.

16 hours ago, Jay79x said:

bringing this up here cos i wanna get some thoughts on whether you guys think it’s right for songs Radio 1 avoided / never played to be brought onto anthems. I saw some talk of songs like Blu Cantrell - Breathe infamously getting ignored and then is treated like this massive Radio 1 Anthem. My trouble comes with songs they never played before (Sabrina Carpenter had another one this week with ‘Nobody's Son’) getting added to anthems? I think it's a little redundant to use the anthems terminology if radio 1 didn't back them to begin with.

I would imagine whoever puts the shows together is A) not looking at what was previously on the main playlist to determine what gets played (though something like Breathe could've been played on the station without being on the playlist as such) or B) they know that only small corners of the internet like this will actually have that knowledge that they didn't playlist the song and they hope no one really notices in the grand scheme of things.

i think its B ngl. It’s just insanely funny when they call album tracks anthems (they've done it for Ariana and Sabrina notoriously)

I remember somebody said all the Clubland type stuff didnt get played on Radio 1 in the 00s (Fly On The Wings of Love, Scooter, Flip and Fill, Cascada, Basshunter) etc. Apart from Ultrabeat Pretty Green Eyes which they did play and I think its still played as a Radio 1 anthem but in a weird trance remix for some reason.

Edited August 28Aug 28 by TheSnake

It's the CJ Stone Remix they play of Pretty Green Eyes, which was actually the lead mix on the Enhanced CD at the time.

Funny, I always thought Scooter and Cascada did get played at the time!

20 hours ago, Jay79x said:

bringing this up here cos i wanna get some thoughts on whether you guys think it’s right for songs Radio 1 avoided / never played to be brought onto anthems.

i think tbh it's better to right an injustice for the benefit of the listeners than focus on it as a case of stolen valour, i'd rather just hear the songs in the end : )

3 hours ago, TheSnake said:

I remember somebody said all the Clubland type stuff didnt get played on Radio 1 in the 00s (Fly On The Wings of Love, Scooter, Flip and Fill, Cascada, Basshunter) etc. Apart from Ultrabeat Pretty Green Eyes which they did play and I think its still played as a Radio 1 anthem but in a weird trance remix for some reason.

They always played the CJ Stone remix even at the time when originally playlisted.

Definitely more Anthems popping up in normal shows these days even outside of features, Viva La Vida on now for no particular reason and that's from 18 years ago!

Edited August 29Aug 29 by HiyaLuv!

1 hour ago, HiyaLuv! said:

Definitely more Anthems popping up in normal shows these days even outside of features, Viva La Vida on now for no particular reason that's from 18 years ago!

thats less an anthem just a recurrent. recurrents can stem from any year basically.

1 hour ago, HiyaLuv! said:

Definitely more Anthems popping up in normal shows these days even outside of features, Viva La Vida on now for no particular reason that's from 18 years ago!

I heard Avicii - Wake Me Up on Weekend Early Breakfast a couple weeks ago

2 hours ago, Jay79x said:

thats less an anthem just a recurrent. recurrents can stem from any year basically.

There's still been a change, until a few years back most recurrents were from the past five years, now older ones appear much more regularly.

1 hour ago, HiyaLuv! said:

There's still been a change, until a few years back most recurrents were from the past five years, now older ones appear much more regularly.

Reminds me of the first lockdown where they went right back to the 90s with some of the recurrents

5 hours ago, lewistgreen said:

Reminds me of the first lockdown where they went right back to the 90s with some of the recurrents

Yeah, I remember them playing Groove Is In The Heart etc, that was 30 years old even then!

At the time they were very relaxed about how old the tunes were as it was all about just keeping our spirits up.

It was a nice treat during an awful time.

And GITH never gets old tbf!

Before R1 Anthems or Radio 1's Greatest Hits as it was originally called you rarely heard anything over five years old outside of the NIckstape/Ten Minute Takeover if I remember rightly.

I do hear quite a lot of 90s on Radio 1 Anthems and R1 Dance even though the former in particular is supposed to be all about the 21st century, The biggest Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Spice Girls and Oasis hits will have a place in the Radio 1 world for quite some time yet though I think, they don't really age.

Edited August 29Aug 29 by HiyaLuv!

Yeh this is true, most recurrents are from the past decades, 18 years ago is an outlier. They wouldn’t have played ‘Tainted Love’ say in 2000.

On 20/08/2026 at 19:47, lewistgreen said:

Bank Holiday Monday is Live Lounge Day from 6am.

Was it wrong of me to think they would just play Live Lounge performances all day? Not just a sprinkling here and there

3 hours ago, lewistgreen said:

Was it wrong of me to think they would just play Live Lounge performances all day? Not just a sprinkling here and there

you weren't the only one who thought this 😭

Does it bother anyone else that Radio 1 don't update the descriptions or pictures on BBC Sounds when a presenter(s) is off?

For example, Emil Franchi is in for Matt and Mollie but you wouldn't have known by looking at BBC Sounds. I doubt it will be Vick, Katie and Jamie on Going Home today, Jack confirmed on Live Lounge that Sian will be hosting the New Music Show (BBC Sounds doesn't reflect that) which means one of Maddi Fearn or Tara Kumar will sit in.

I can only imagine it's either a last minute decision to have them cover or the bank holiday has just meant no one has been around to update the descriptions

It could be because it’s the other presenters they are covering show. But R2 certainly change the picture to the person presenting, for example Gary Davies on Breakfast last week and Mark Goodier following him instead of Vernon.