Spotify Wrapped And The Need For Emotion
Spotify Unwrapped may offer a statistical look at your listening, but it can’t measure the emotional impact of music.
Tag: playlist
The Top Forty countdown, with only our favourite songs, moves to Friday
I don’t listen regularly to the Top 40 any more, so its move to Friday afternoon instead of Sunday evening is just another “well, back in my day” to add to my brain, but one thing I loved (and still love) about the Top 40 is that no matter what the song was, it was always played in the countdown. It was one of the few chances to bypass the pluggers and pickers of the national pop music station and get airplay. Be it Status Quo, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, or that year’s winning Eurovision Song Contest, if it made the Top
The irony of Radio 1’s playlist committee
The common refrain is that younger music fans are turning away from Radio 1 and getting their new music from online sources as sa YouTube, Spotify, and Soundcloud. Which is why I raised my eyebrow at this Guardian article where Nadio Khomami sits in with a bunch of managers sitting around a room, pouring over statistics from YouTube, Spotify, Facebook likes, and Twitter shares to power the Radio 1 playlist. Oh the irony.
Why did Radio 1 ignore one of the biggests chart hits of 2012?
Is that the noise of laughter as Radio 1’s Head of music, George Egatoudis, tells Digital Spy Radio 1 has no influence on the charts and always acknowledges the public’s lead? A lot of people believe we have total control over what gets in the charts and what is popular, but this simply isn’t the case. Of course we do have influence, but the public know what they like and if we don’t acknowledge that they’ll soon turn us off and go elsewhere. So Mr Egatoudis, can you think of a song that goes Top Ten in thirty different countries,
Song Pop… Douze Points!
The hideously addictive musical guessing game finally adds a ‘Eurovision’ playlist. Between that and the Belgian Grand Prix  my weekend is sorted.
