16 minutes ago, Jay79x said:

not 100% playlist related but i’m loving the new hot recurrent (2026) tracks they are bringing in.

The one’s i noticed so far are:

Chris Stassy x Tom Did It - Wide Awake

Harry Styles - Aperture

Olivia Rodrigo - the cure

very nice to potentially get to hear some of these tunes again especially Wide Awake

‘Aperture’ and ‘the cure’ are being played now the other singles have left the playlist.

I do wish they’d vary the recurrents more. It wouldn’t hurt to have some A-list songs from earlier in the year sprinkled in.

18 minutes ago, J14C said:

‘Aperture’ and ‘the cure’ are being played now the other singles have left the playlist.

I do wish they’d vary the recurrents more. It wouldn’t hurt to have some A-list songs from earlier in the year sprinkled in.

oh nearly forgot to mention but i saw Bring Your Love was played the other day aswell so it does seem like they are trying to bring more back.

Retro 2000

A-List

Aaliyah - Try Again

Richard Ashcroft - C'mon People (We're Making It Now)

ATFC pres Onephatdeeva - Bad Habit

Craig David - 7 Days

Christian Falk - Make It Right

Glamma Kid - Bills 2 Pay

Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter

Madonna - Music

Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner

Melanie C - I Turn To You

MJ Cole - Sincere

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun 2000

Robbie Rivera pres Rhythm Bangers - Bang

Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You

Britney Spears - Lucky

Sonique - Sky

Spiller - If This Ain't Love (Groovejet)

Storm - Time To Burn

True Steppers & Dane Bowers feat. Victoria Beckham - Out Of Your Mind

Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

B-List

Aurora - Ordinary World

Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler

Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'

En-Core - Coochy Coo

*Foo Fighters - Breakout

Wyclef Jean - It Doesn't Matter

JJ72 - Oxygen

K-Ci & JoJo - Tell Me It's Real

Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster

N*SYNC - It's Gonna Be Me

Pink - Most Girls

Billie Piper - Something Deep Inside

Finley Quaye - Spiritualized

Queens Of The Stone Age - The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret

Ruff Endz - No More

Sisqo - Unleash The Dragon

Sugababes - Overload

Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy - Freak Like Me

VAST - Free

Wookie - Battle

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

C-List

*Architechs - Body Groove

Badly Drawn Boy - Disillusioned

Bellatrix - Jediwannabe

Craig David - Time To Party

*Iceberg Slim - Nursery Rhymes

Lynden David Hall - Let's Do It Again

Mekon - What's Going On?

*Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This

Next - Wifey

Roni Size - Who Told You So

*S Club 7 - Natural

Sasha & Emerson - Scorchio

Soulwax - Too Many DJs

*Sureal - You Take My Breath Away

Toploader - Just Hold On

Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed In Summertime

Edited Saturday at 05:375 days by Sempachorra

2 minutes ago, Sempachorra said:

Retro 2000

A-List

Aaliyah - Try Again

Craig David - 7 Days

Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'

Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter

Madonna - Music

Melanie C - I Turn To You

MJ Cole - Sincere

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You

Britney Spears - Lucky

Spiller - If This Ain't Love (Groovejet)

True Steppers & Dane Bowers feat. Victoria Beckham - Out Of Your Mind

Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

B-List

Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler

Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster

N*SYNC - It's Gonna Be Me

Pink - Most Girls

Sugababes - Overload

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

C-List

*Architechs - Body Groove

*Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This

i get to do the what songs i know even though i wasn’t alive at the time thing again woo! not a lot from B List or C List sadly.

3 minutes ago, Jay79x said:

i get to do the what songs i know even though i wasn’t alive at the time thing again woo! not a lot from B List or C List sadly.

Time to listen to Sonique "Sky", Lene Marlin "Unforgivable Sinner" and Billie Piper "Something Deep Inside" then

Edited August 21Aug 21 by Sempachorra

So many great dance songs in late 2000

2 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

So many great dance songs in late 2000

Radio 1 was like "how many dance songs can we fit into our playlist" lol

But to be fair, 95% of them were hits.

Yeh Storm and Zombie Nation especially were huge at the time and sounded amazing!

32 minutes ago, Sempachorra said:

Time to listen to Sonique "Sky", Lene Marlin "Unforgivable Sinner" and Billie Piper "Something Deep Inside" then

through anything dance at me from there and yea i probably will 😂

28 minutes ago, Sempachorra said:

Radio 1 was like "how many dance songs can we fit into our playlist" lol

But to be fair, 95% of them were hits.

2000 was insane for dance songs in the UK chart.

2014 was almost as big for dance hits in the chart as well especially #1s.

Edited August 21Aug 21 by TheSnake

Poor MadgeKylie.

They have shown both a lot of previously unforeseen love over recent years considering their (irrelevant) advancing ages and the enormous gaps before they were last playlisted as lead artists so I thought this would get more spins.

Am I right in thinking that went 8-OUT?

I thought they released more physicals?

Anyway, think someone said Bring Your Love had become a R1 recurrent so I am having a bit of that.

It was A-listed after all!

Anyway my late summer/autumn '26 playlist (basically Alternative Now 126) is filling up fast already and it's only August 22nd, I reckon this could be a strong one, tonnes of great dance stuff in particular on the R1 playlist right now.

Edited Saturday at 02:005 days by HiyaLuv!

5 hours ago, Sempachorra said:

True Steppers & Dane Bowers feat. Victoria Beckham - Out Of Your Mind

This tune really punished me.

8 hours ago, Jay79x said:

through anything dance at me from there and yea i probably will 😂

These are all dance, mix of house, trance, garage, etc.

ATFC pres Onephatdeeva - Bad Habit

Christian Falk - Make It Right

Melanie C - I Turn To You

MJ Cole - Sincere

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun 2000

Robbie Rivera pres Rhythm Bangers - Bang

Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You

Sonique - Sky

Spiller - If This Ain't Love (Groovejet)

Storm - Time To Burn

True Steppers & Dane Bowers feat. Victoria Beckham - Out Of Your Mind

Aurora - Ordinary World

Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler

En-Core - Coochy Coo

Sugababes - Overload

Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy - Freak Like Me

Wookie - Battle

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

*Architechs - Body Groove

Roni Size - Who Told You So

Sasha & Emerson - Scorchio

Soulwax - Too Many DJs

*Sureal - You Take My Breath Away

songs not supported on Radio 1 around this time:

Daphne & Celeste - School's Out

Bloodhound Gang - Ballad Of Chasey Lane

Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy 2000

Hi-Gate - I Can Hear Voices

Madasun - Feel Good

Lil Kim - No Matter What They Say

Mandy Moore - I Wanna Be With You

Point Break - You

Bon Jovi - Say It Isn't So

Lolly - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Yomanda - On The Level

Rollergirl - Dear Jessie

Aaron Carter - I Want Candy

French Affair - My Heart Goes Boom

Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody

Sash! - With My Own Eyes

None of the above apart from perhaps Vanessa Amorosi are really essentials, it was everywhere on the Box at the time.

Sash! was surprising considering both Adelante and Just Around The Hill were A-listed that year

Lots of good dance on that 2000 playlist indeed! Glad the wonderful 'Sincere' by MJ Cole got a better peak after that second push

13 minutes ago, Sempachorra said:

Sash! was surprising considering both Adelante and Just Around The Hill were A-listed that year

How odd, I wonder why they didn't?

Seems impressive it became a top 10 hit without their backing.

Just now, Jessie Where said:

How odd, I wonder why they didn't?

Seems impressive it became a top 10 hit without their backing.

From what I can tell, basically only some push from The Box, it managed 2 weeks on The Box breakers. Radio overall and MTV were not that supportive.

That retro playlist is insanely good! 2000 was definitely one of my favourite years for music.

These are my absolute faves from the list

A-List

Madonna - Music

Melanie C - I Turn To You

Sonique - Sky

Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

B-List

Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler

JJ72 - Oxygen

Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster

Billie Piper - Something Deep Inside

C-List

*Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This

Don't remember that Craig David song at all though, Time To Party?? Pretty sure that wasn't a single so what were R1 doing playlisting it? Or was it cancelled before release or something like that?

Edited Saturday at 12:275 days by Mangø