2 hours ago, Mangø said:

I mean they've probably got one more era of guaranteed support but I wouldn't be too sure beyond that. Plus they did waver a bit with support for their previous era.

I did feel that too. I think things were sketchy after Ribbon Around the Bomb.

However, Gary seems to have put them back on the straight and narrow.

Only just noticed Drake swiftly got booted off after only going B-list with an actual lead single.

How times have changed.

Ironically I really liked Janice STFU after many, many years of thinking "WTF is that half-hearted hookless nonsense you just farted out?" several times a year.

Imagine if he became a Radio 2 heritage act.

 

On 03/07/2026 at 14:50, gavindeejay said:

What's the beef with Noah Kahan? Doors out already?

Feels like R1 are going off people quickly these days, particularly solo acts.

One year you're omnipresent, two years after you're not even making the A-list or sometimes even B-list and your new songs get chucked in the R1 bin forevermore after a month, never to be aired again!

In fact, thinking about it, it looks like we might not actually get a new anguished acoustic chart-dominating bloke this year!

 

On 03/07/2026 at 16:04, earthisturning said:

I have a feeling he's switching singles

Or he's over already.

Edited July 5Jul 5 by HiyaLuv!

Where is Holly Humberstone's new single? They've been all over her this era and she played at Big Weekend and no add for 'White Noise'. It's currently on Radio 2 with a B-B-B run.

Yeh feels like it’s been the last Blossoms era for all their 2020s releases now but they are top of their game so glad they are still supporting them!

7 hours ago, earthisturning said:

Where is Holly Humberstone's new single? They've been all over her this era and she played at Big Weekend and no add for 'White Noise'. It's currently on Radio 2 with a B-B-B run.

she’s getting stray plays rn. I’m assuming they are waiting for a quieter week to add her.

15 minutes ago, Jay79x said:

she’s getting stray plays rn. I’m assuming they are waiting for a quieter week to add her.

Hopefully

anyone got totw’s? I think Joel’s is Saturday Night by Ravyn Lenae but idk the other ones

Tune of the Week

Joel Mitchell: Ravyn Lenae - Saturday Night

Greg James: Baby Queen - Permanently Obsessed

Rickie, Melvin and Charlie: Jorja Smith feat. Wizkid - Alive

Matt and Mollie: Benson Boone - The Time Of My Life

Going Home: Ella Langley - Be Her

I’ve noticed Jonas Blue’s ‘Edge of Desire’ keeps getting random plays. Anyone know why?

4 hours ago, J14C said:

I’ve noticed Jonas Blue’s ‘Edge of Desire’ keeps getting random plays. Anyone know why?

going viral. This and Dai Dai are probably in the same position songs like ‘Satisfaction Skank’ and ‘House Tour’ were in sometime in april. They get the level of plays of something close to the B list but arent actually apart of the playlist cause there isnt enough room. I think this is why ‘Janice’ left too cause thats currently a “recurrent”

9 hours ago, Jay79x said:

going viral. This and Dai Dai are probably in the same position songs like ‘Satisfaction Skank’ and ‘House Tour’ were in sometime in april. They get the level of plays of something close to the B list but arent actually apart of the playlist cause there isnt enough room. I think this is why ‘Janice’ left too cause thats currently a “recurrent”

This isn’t even on Capital

I’m surprised R1 hasn’t yet supported Saxboy Billy

I'm not surprised at all, I've just read about the BBC's policies on AI music.

"Our priority will be music which is the result of meaningful human creativity – the substantial creative effort and distinctive creative choices of artists.

Artists using AI tools will be considered in our programming – as we expect more to experiment with and adopt this technology over time – but these tools must be used to support human creativity and should not replace a person’s work in developing, shaping or expressing the creative idea itself. For example, simply prompting, generating, selecting, or lightly modifying AI outputs is unlikely to represent meaningful human creativity."

I doubt they'd support it even if it wasn't AI tbh.

1 hour ago, Sami Hook Jama said:

I’m surprised R1 hasn’t yet supported Saxboy Billy

???????

Because it's shit and not real music

Bait

5 hours ago, Sami Hook Jama said:

This isn’t even on Capital

and this thread isnt a capital thread 😮😱😰. is that ALL you talk about.

21 hours ago, Jay79x said:

going viral. This and Dai Dai are probably in the same position songs like ‘Satisfaction Skank’ and ‘House Tour’ were in sometime in april. They get the level of plays of something close to the B list but arent actually apart of the playlist cause there isnt enough room. I think this is why ‘Janice’ left too cause thats currently a “recurrent”

I’ve never understood why they can’t just add them and have a different amount of songs on the playlist for whatever amount of weeks dependent on how much new music there is.

They should publish their Hot Recurrents list again. That little insight previously was great

10 hours ago, lewistgreen said:

They should publish their Hot Recurrents list again. That little insight previously was great

Though that list was only two songs so I felt it was pretty pointless. If it was a more detailed list then yes I’d like to see that.