BBC Radio 1 Playlist

[mykka]

3/9/08

A-List

The Automatic - Steve McQueen
Sam Beeton - What You Look For
Biffy Clyro - Mountains
Miley Cyrus - See You Again [Rock Mafia remix]
Flobots - Handlebars
Gym Class Heroes feat The Dream - Cookie Jar
Iglu & Hartly - In This City
Keane – Spiralling
Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
Steve Mac - Paddy's Revenge
Madcon' - Beggin'
James Morrison - You Make It Real
Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
Eric Prydz - Pjanoo
Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
Rihanna - Disturbia
Sonny J – Can’t Stop Moving [Mirwais remix]
The Verve - Love Is Noise


B-List

Black Kids – Look At Me
Chris Brown featuring T-Pain – Kiss Kiss
James Doman - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
The Feeling – Join With Us
Flo Rida feat Will I Am - In The Ayer
Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat
McFly – Lies
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
Nickelback - Far Away
Pendulum - Granite
Pink – So What
Sigur Ros - Inní Mer Syngur Vitleysingur
The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
Sugababes - Girls

C-List

Axwell & Bob Sinclar featuring Ron Carroll – What A Wonderful World
* Basshunter - Angel In The Night
Estelle featuring Cee-Lo – Pretty Please (Love Me)
* Fallout Boy - I Don't Care
Ironik – I Wanna Be Your Man
Ladyhawke – Dust Till Dawn
* N-Dubz - Ouch
* Snow Patrol - Take Back The City
* Tilly And The Wall - Beat Control
The Zutons – What’s Your Problem


1-Upfront List

* Chase & Status - Pieces
Common featuring Pharrell Williams – Universal Mind Control
* Shwayze - Buzzin'
Sway featuring Lemar – Saturday Night Hustle
* White Lies - Death



Out:

Alphabeat - Boyfriend (from A-list)
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (from A-list)
Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me (from A-list)
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved (from A-list)
Mariah Carey - I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time (from B-list)
Bryn Christopher - Smilin' (from B-list)
Duffy - Stepping Stone (from B-list)
Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool (from 1Upfront list)

[Dido]

I think that's possibly the worst A-list I have seen in years. Radio 1 doesn't deserve it's millions of listeners.

[SholasBoy]

I thought Steve Mac might be moving up this week. What happened with Duffy though? :-?

[Plym]

What happened with Duffy though? :-?

Yes, they have not been very supportive of Stepping Stone!
I'm glad they are playing Common though.

[MadeOfBricks]

They need to move stuff down from the A-list because it's strange hearing a song on the radio all the time to hardly ever hearing it.

I'm glad Little Jackie and The Script are gone though.

[mykka]

Retro 5 years ago:

A-List

Christina Aguilera featuring Lil' Kim - Can't Hold Us Down
Lee Cabrera featuring Alex Cartana - Shake It (Move A Little Closer)
Coldplay - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
D Kay & Epsilon featuring Stamina MC - Barcelona
The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Jaimeson - Complete
Jamelia - Superstar
Elton John - Are You Ready For Love
Kontakt - Show Me A Sign
Lemar - Dance (With U)
Lumidee featuring Busta Rhymes & Fabolous - Never Leave You (Uh-Oooh)
Muse - Time Is Running Out
Nelly featuring P Diddy & Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
Nickelback - Someday
Sean Paul - Like Glue
Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My L.A Ex
Justin Timberlake - Senorita
Travis - Re-Offender
Jurgen Vries - Wilderness


B-List

Athlete - You Got The Style
Beyonce featuring Sean Paul - Baby Boy
Mary J Blige featuring Method Man - Love @ 1st Sight
The Chemical Brothers featuring The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path
Big Brovaz - Baby Boy
Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent
So Solid Crew feauting The Reelists - Broken Silence
Siobhan Donaghy - Twist Of Fate
Dutch featuring Crystal Waters - My Time
Evanescence - Going Under
Foo Fighters - Have It All
Freeland - We Want Your Soul
Linkin Park - Numb
Milk & Sugar - Let The Sunshine In
Million Dan - Dogz And Sledgez
Rishi Rich Project featuring Jay Sean & Juggy D - Dance With You
The Cooper Temple Clause - Promises
The Strokes - 12:51
The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself


C-List

* 50 Cent featuring Snoop Dogg - PIMP
Abs featuring Nodesha - Miss Perfect
* Limp Bizkit - Eat You Alive
Gareth Gates - Sunshine
* Longview - Can't Explain
* Louise - Pandora's Kiss
* Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On
* Morjac featuring Raz Conway - Stars
Outkast - Ghetto Musik
* Poloroid - So Damn Beautiful (Godzilla Mix)
* Amy Studt - Under The Thumb
* Sugababes - Hole In The Head
* The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

[mykka]

Do you guys want me to continue doing this? I wanna know if there is some sort of demand discussing the playlist over here?

[Thriller]

Alphabeat - Boyfriend (from A-list)
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (from A-list)
Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me (from A-list)
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved (from A-list)
Bryn Christopher - Smilin' (from B-list)
Duffy - Stepping Stone (from B-list)

How weird that they've dropped some of the biggest hits around right now and some that have only just entered the chart, and straight from the A-List too - I'd expect them to be relegated before being dropped completely :-?

[MadeOfBricks]

The other playlist from 5 years ago is so much better, there's loads of songs on it!

[mykka]

The other playlist from 5 years ago is so much better, there's loads of songs on it!

Radio 1 play a lot less music nowadays than 5 years ago. The difference is even more clear if you compared playlists from 10 years ago.

[mykka]

10/09/08

A-List

The Automatic - Steve McQueen
Sam Beeton - What You Look For
Biffy Clyro - Mountains
Chris Brown featuring Nelly - Kiss Kiss
Flobots - Handlebars
Gym Class Heroes feat The Dream - Cookie Jar
Iglu & Hartly - In This City
Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
Steve Mac - Paddy's Revenge
James Morrison - You Make It Real
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning
Pendulum - Granite
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
Pink - So What
Eric Prydz – Pjanoo
Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
Rihanna - Disturbia
The Verve - Love Is Noise


B-List

Axwell & Bob Sinclar featuring Ron Carroll – What A Wonderful World
Basshunter - Angel In The Night
James Doman - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
The Feeling – Join With Us
Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat
McFly – Lies
* MGMT - Kids
* M.I.A - Paper Planes
Nickelback - Far Away
Snow Patrol - Take Back The City
The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
Sugababes - Girls
Tilly And The Wall - Beat Control
* The Ting Tings - Be The One

C-List

* Cage The Elephant - In One Ear
* Elbow - The Bones Of You
Estelle featuring Cee-Lo – Pretty Please (Love Me)
Fallout Boy - I Don't Care
Ironik – I Wanna Be Your Man
* The Kooks - Sway
Ladyhawke – Dust Till Dawn
N-Dubz - Ouch
* Platnum - Love Shy
Shwayze - Buzzin'


1-Upfront List

Chase & Status - Pieces
Common featuring Pharrell Williams – Universal Mind Control
* The King Blues - My Boulder
Sway featuring Lemar – Saturday Night Hustle
White Lies – Death


Out:

Miley Cyrus - See You Again (from A-list)
Keane - Spiralling (from A-list)
Madcon - Beggin' (from A-list)
Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving (from A-list)
Black Kids - Look At Me (from B-list)
Flo Rida - In The Ayer (from B-list)
Sigur Ros - Inní Mer Syngur Vitleysingur (from B-list)
The Zutons - What's Your Problem (from C-list)

[Thriller]

Woo for MIA.

Shocked they've ditched Madcon, Miley Cyrus and Keane!

[MadeOfBricks]

I hate the way they drop songs so suddenly!

So glad for Paper Planes finally being playlisted, and MGMT.

[StevieFM]

How weird that they've dropped some of the biggest hits around right now and some that have only just entered the chart, and straight from the A-List too - I'd expect them to be relegated before being dropped completely

The whole point of Radio 1's music policy is pushing & promoting new music. ie. Once a song enters the charts and starts getting played on commercial radio, there's no need for Radio 1 to promote it any more. Their work is done, effectively. That's why songs get dropped.

So take, for example, Little Jackie's song. R1 have been playing that for well over a month, maybe two. The fact that commercial radio are a bit more behind the times doesn't really make a difference. The song becomes a bit stale once you've been playing it for so long. By the time it gets released, people can buy it for themselves if they want to keep listening to it, but R1's commitment to playing it ends there so that people don't get sick of it. There's always going to be newer, fresher music to play!

[urgay]

No Michelle Williams Again But A Chris Brown Re-Release Which Is Doing Nothing On Downloads Is A-List Because His Last 2 Were Hits

[Plym]

Why are they ignoring Will Young?

[mykka]

Steve, I think the radio 1 playlist is a bit snobbish. There are great songs that never get playlist even though they could be huge hits. Its quite biased towards guitar music too, a little more balance would be great - the fact that their recurrents are almost all indie-rock proves my point.
And Radio 1 are only fast to drop songs quickly after being released in certain occasions. I've seen flops by Pigeon Detectives, Kaiser Chiefs, Fratellis etc remain on the A-list for weeks after being released, even though none of them became hits.

[UKMusicLova]

The completely ignore songs like I Decided (Even though the DJ's say they love song song! And there track record with previous Freemasons productions)
They're also ignoring We Break The Dawn! Also Feedback and Outta My Head were completely ignored too!

[mykka]

Retro - 7 Years ago:

A-List

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Basement Jaxx - Jus 1 Kiss
Mary J Blige - Family Affair
City High - What Would You Do
Dido - Hunter
Eve featurinh Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light
Macy Gray featuring Erykah Badu - Sweet Baby
Jamiroquai - Little L
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Redman featuring Adam F - Smash Sumthin
Shaggy featuring Samantha Cole - Luv Me, Luv Me
Silicone Soul - Right On
Jean Jacques Smoothie - 2 People
Staind - It's Been Awhile
Starsailor - Alcoholic
Stereophonics - Step On My Old Size Nines
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Supermen Lovers featuring Mani Hoffman - Starlight
Travis - Side

B-List

India Arie - Brown Skin (BedroomRockers Radio Mix)
Artful Dodger featuring Melanie Blatt - Twentyfourseven
Ash - Candy
Victoria Beckham - Not Such An Innocent Girl
Blink 182 - First Date
Blue - Too Close
The Chemical Brothers - It Began In Afrika
DJ Tiësto - Urban Train
P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family - Bad Boy For Life
Faithless - Muhammad Ali
Garbage - Androgyny
Michael Jackson - You Rock My World
Kings Of Tomorrow - Finally
Liberty - Thinking It Over
Ludacris featuring Nate Dogg - Area Codes
Samantha Mumba - Baby Come On Over
The Ones - Flawless
So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds
The Streets - Has It Come To This
Super Furry Animals - (Drawing) Rings Around The World
Usher - You Got It Bad (Soulpower Remix)

C-List

Afroman - Because I Got High
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R
The Cooper Temple Clause - Let's Kill Music
Elbow - Newborn
Brian Harvey & The Refugee Crew - 'Loving You (Ole, Ole, Ole)
* PJ Harvey - This Is Love
* IIO - Rapture
* K2 Family - Bouncing Flow
Linkin Park - In The End
Manic Street Preachers - Let Robeson Sing
Mercury Rev - Nite and Fog
* Mis-Teeq - One Night Stand
* Pulp - Sunrise
* Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days
Britney Spears - I'm A Slave For You
Talisman P P. Meets Barrington Levy - Here I Come (Sing DJ)

[mykka]

Steve, since you work at Radio 1, can you please try and get some old playlists from the 90s and 2000? If you find them, please send me them as I kinda have my own archive, but I dont have many from 2001 and before that.

[matthew_dixon]

I hate the way they drop songs so suddenly!

Wow - yes, they dropped Sonny J, Flo Rida and the Zutons on the week of release, and Black Kids have been dropped PRE-release, no?

[crazycool]

Thanks for the retro playlists! Wouldn't have thought Macy Gray would have been A-Listed!

[bergkamp2004]

i think there's Kings of Leon overkill on radio 1
I'm sick of that song now

Dont even like it anymore its on so much!

[SeeForever]

And Radio 1 are only fast to drop songs quickly after being released in certain occasions. I've seen flops by Pigeon Detectives, Kaiser Chiefs, Fratellis etc remain on the A-list for weeks after being released, even though none of them became hits.

That is what irritates me most about Radio 1, of late they playlisted for weeks that Kooks song which only made the top 30

[mykka]

Thanks for the retro playlists! Wouldn't have thought Macy Gray would have been A-Listed!

She was also A-listed with I Try and Still.