Radio One has set playlists named A, B and C.
A list means they have 25-30 plays per week
B list means they have 10-20 plays per week
C list means they have around 5 plays per week.
On stations like BBC Radio 1 there is a long selection process to decide which songs make their final playlists and onto the radio, ultimately, there is one person in charge of track selection however producers and DJs will have meetings to discuss potential songs, and put forward songs they believe will be big.
We visited the Radio One website and looked at their playlists, then chose a selection of 11 songs we liked and thought fit in with our research. These songs were;
Katy Perry - Firework
Two Door Cinema Club - I can talk
Biffy Clyro - Boom, Blast and Ruin
The xx - VCR
Chase & Status - Hypest Hype
JLS - I love you more
Kings of Leon - Radioactive
Bruno Mars - Just the way you are
Tinie Tempah - Written in the stars
Cee Lo Green - Forget You
Darwin Deez - Constellations
We then listened to all the above tracks and made a rating system, 1-10 on how good we thought they were, not only in terms of how good the song was but how relevent it would be for our audience based on the previous research we had conducted. We then collated the results, looking at the ratings, the 6 best songs reached our final playlist for the show, they are;
Katy Perry - Firework
Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk
Biffy Cyro - Boom, Blast and Ruin
Kings of Leon - Radioactive
Cee Lo Green - Forget You
Darwin Deez - Constellations
We must then relisten to all of these tracks carefully to ensure they are not explicit, in order to abide by watershed regulations. We also need to put them in order and slot them into our running order.
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