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What would you like to be on the playlist, if you were making the decisions? There's a discussion about it on another forum, but I've decided to bring it across here.

Aled has written,

"Playlist is made of 10 staff around the building chosen for their different musical skills. As the most mainstream person you'll ever meet I qualify for an understanding of what a large section of our audience would like.

I'm also the digital representative on playlist spotting trends within social networking websites, blogs and musical sites - perhaps of artists that aren't fully represented by the record industry, and also to add weight to claims made by the record companies about their artists."

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Round at aled.info, there's a lady commenting on French stuff, which I find interesting, but I really can't imagine a lot of that being picked up by R1 somehow. I like French stuff, but it's probably an "acquired taste".

I'd like to have a small "whine" about the lack of Madonna again at the moment. I read somewhere that there's an unwritten rule about not playing "older" artists, but surely she's the exception to this rule somehow. Hopefully, she may be on the lie-in this Sunday.

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Good God. Jpop is monstrous. I had to google it, and JPop turns out to be an abbrevation for Japanese pop. Different, I must say.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-pop

Stuff from the Wonder Years is a great idea. Stuff that Dave Pearce used to do. Could do with some more anthemtic-type tunes whilst out running. At least, there's the new Calvin Harris tune at the moment, which is fantastic.

Also, could R1 please put Friendly Fires' Skeleton Boy back on the playlist. Everyone was saying recently how much they were enjoying it, etc. - now it seems to have been removed. Put. It. Back.

I'm lovin' Kutiman-Thru-You "Mother of All Funk Chords" - check it out on youtube!!

I like Kid British. Thanks for posting about them, Computer. Been watching "Lost In London" on YouTube - loves it!!!

From the guardian.co.uk : "Kid British: more than slightly provocative, in that great tradition of wind-up Manc monikers like Joy Division and ACR - it's certainly much better than their original one, which, until recently, was Kid British and the Action Manky. They're a multiracial outfit designed to reflect a multiracial city, a four-piece, with three extra musicians for gigs, including a multi-instrumentalist, a dude with dreads on guitar, four singers, a rapper and one who calls himself the Kid. They've just signed to Mercury and they're already been hailed as the best new band in Manchester, and even though there hasn't been a truly groundbreaking Manc artist or act for nearly two decades - there have been great ones, don't get us wrong, they just haven't done anything new - that's still reason enough to sit up and listen".

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Album tracks. I knew Edith has a feature, not sure how often she does it, where listeners vote for their favorite track off an album but I'd like to hear them more often as alot of them are equally as good as the singles.

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Frankmusic who is massive on blogs and has even been playlisted on some commercial radio stations, hasn't been playlisted by radio 1! Look into it!

I second that. I like their new track.

From listening to pre-releases/some stations in US these are some tracks i'm digging a little:

Zarif - Let Me Back

The Enemy – No Time For Tears (already playlisted, i think)

The Veronicas – Untouched

Kelly Clarkson - I do not Hook Up (no doubt will get playlisted straight away)

Weirdly I like more light Rock/Punk/Ska music and I dont mind these tracks at all........I like i'm an all round music lover and can pretty much stand anything so i dont care! God that was useful wasn't it...

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I second that. I like their new track.

From listening to pre-releases/some stations in US these are some tracks i'm digging a little:

Zarif - Let Me Back

The Enemy – No Time For Tears (already playlisted, i think)

The Veronicas – Untouched

Kelly Clarkson - I do not Hook Up (no doubt will get playlisted straight away)

Weirdly I like more light Rock/Punk/Ska music and I dont mind these tracks at all........I like i'm an all round music lover and can pretty much stand anything so i dont care! God that was useful wasn't it...

I like Zarif but, she's not very original. Gettting on the radio1 playlist could make or break her.....

The Enemy are on the A list :)

The Veronicas (Born on Christmas day doncha know) are massive in OZ but Im really not too keen, they seem bland to me

Kelly Clarckson's new single will probably get playlisted when her current song falls out of favour.

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Rob - They have placed albums on the C List for the last few years such as Snow Patrol (Eyes Open), Keane (Hopes And Fears, Under The Iron Sea), Coldplay (X & Y, Prospekts March EP), Madonna I think as well. A few examples for u there.

Yeah my change would be to have them on more often :)

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Despite it not happening for the reasons Aled has pointed out to me, I'm naturally biased for rock music and would like at least one song appealing to my rock and roll needs, on a weekly basis. I've seen Slipknot, Metallica and Guns N' Roses on there, but that isn't enough for me. I wouldn't mind but Radio One haven't even gone to the well for alternative rock such as Counting Crows, 3 Doors Down or Shinedown, who are far more appealing to the casual audience than Megadeth and Killswitch Engage.

Alas, I understand why Radio One do it (because British rock fans are alienated by radio and stay isolated to their ipods, which makes radio stations believe that there isn't an audience for rock music) and can always make do with non-stop N-Dubz instead.

 

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Alas, I understand why Radio One do it (because British rock fans are alienated by radio and stay isolated to their ipods, which makes radio stations believe that there isn't an audience for rock music) and can always make do with non-stop N-Dubz instead.

Thank GOD they are alienated. I hate rock, I really do. I know everyone has there own tastes, but SHOUTING from one end of a song to another does not appeal to moi!! Gimme Madonna & Britney any day!! :D

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Rock has many different voice Miss Viv not all shouting down the mic :P

I do love rock and metal though, but have to listen to my ipod for those things. Sucks really, R1 should throw one in every now again. Maybe not Trivium or Slipknot though :giggle:

At least Scott plays Linkin Park :D

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