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This will definitely be on the playlist officially in the run-up to the Big Weekend. They need something new from him to play to build momentum and what else is there? He's hardly put anything new out in the past 20 years. It might as well be there already considering how many spins it's getting! Mad that someone who played bass in an 1980s indie-pop band is headlining Radio 1's Big Weekend 2026 when you think about it, isn't it. I love it though! Satisfaction Skank might have the most spot plays for anything ever aside from Running Up That Hill (2022, I'm sure it was playlisted in 1985), which never officially appeared on a list of songs you could look at on the internet but was on a LOT!

Guessing Lizzo has been banished to Radio 2-only land forevermore now? Rather liking Don't Make Me Love U. "Don't you bullshit me, baby!"

Cheers, this is a pretty desperate situation, the latest tax year has just ended and I will be reporting about a third of what I was on before the bots came along to ruin my life. But I genuinely reckon this has legs if I commit to it! How Did Sam Fender Get So Big? definitely coming, as is an Olivia Dean episode!

Hi fellow Buzzjackers, HiyaLuv here. Hope you're well. Since 2023, my income and livelihood have crashed to the ground due to AI, because obviously most companies would rather feed a chatbot a prompt and get a blog or article for free rather than pay me even a modest bit of cash to do it. It's not been a fun three years to say the least...but there may be light at the end of the tunnel. People have been telling me that 'faceless YouTube channels' might be the way forward, and this does look like a good opportunity for me to blend my writing experience with my pop culture knowledge and hopefully make a few quid from it once momentum starts to build. So, working under the pseudonym Don Huddersfield, I finally launched my YouTube channel, How Did They Get So Big? in the early hours of this morning. Yes, I had to use AI for the visuals but that's because my knowledge of video production is limited to say the least but I am happy to team up with anyone who does have the skills for that sort of thing so we can make stuff that's much better to look at in future and will hopefully benefit both of our bank balances. It would be amazing if you could watch the first two videos (Ed Sheeran and Wetherspoons) and even better if you could subscribe, as I am really running out of ideas when it comes to making a living over coming years. I would also appreciate your suggestions for future videos. If something got really popular and you want Don Huddersfield to deep dive into why it happened, give me a shout! Ideas I have in the pipeline include McDonalds, Netflix, Adele, Oasis, EastEnders, Strictly etc etc etc.

Listening to Now 123 now and it's not a very satisfying experience. Way too many flops/album tracks that barely touched the airwaves if at all! Can't see too many people forking out for a physical version of this. Two December 10 songs FFS! If anyone's not going to be a thing, it's them.

Starting to wonder if anything will #reinmeininin over the coming months. Big Fender fan but FFS!

Eins, Zwei, Drei is ace, feels just the right time to put it into heavy HiyaLuv rotation with six weeks to go to Eurovision.

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Indeed!

Feel like it's never getting reined in! It's starting to ring like tinnitus. Really can't be that good as he's the artists with the most #1s on my personal chart since I started it in 2019 yet this only got to #3 in my fantasy chartland. Bella Kay going the wrong way grrrr. Still, BTS will be at #928169817219827 in a few weeks, proper 2004-esque fanbase hit.

Weird how they were obsessed with Satisfaction Skank for like one week without officially playlisting it, guessing it will come back in the run-up to the Big Weekend unless he puts something else out, which he won't. Anyone else getting the feeling Radio 1 is nowhere near as ageist as it was a while back? Most DJs 40 or getting there, Gorillaz on the playlist etc and still sounds very youthful. This is the way it should be. Scott Mills' best R1 years were in his forties! At its best, Radio 1 is a way of life/attitude and not about an age range. Guess I'm well on my way to becoming one of those 'pop pensioners' Ben Cooper moaned about when he was in his forties himself. There are 45-year-olds who are full of life and energy and always want to hear the most exciting new stuff and 25-year-olds who aren't bothered about any of that.

People say it might go back to twice a year, I think annnually but as a 4-CD box set could be better, like a Yearbook you don't have to wait 30 or 40 years to get. If they get to the end of this year, that's 125 and that's a sensible number to end on. They're padding the numbered Nows out with stuff that wasn't even on the radio. And with the Yearbook approach it would be easier to licence a January hit in November than in March I guess.

Yeah, they're padding it out with non-singles that charted presumably because that makes the budget go further. Don't want to play devil's/album tracks' advocate but at least they were popular and lots of people were listening to them. It is a bit of a cheap approach though.

No, nobody's bothered about it because it's not being pushed as a single! I've never known someone be so consistently wrong about things yet so confident they're right. You might as well be ChatGPT!

Correct, unless you're Hadji who takes Wikipedia as gospel. Also Wikipedia doesn't take into account the differences between countries, I don't know if WDYGH was pushed to radio in the US or anywhere else but I certainly didn't hear it 56 billion times a week across Radios 1 and 2. There's no way they would have snubbed if it was a 'real' UK single!