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VV Brown has criticised Radio 1 for refusing to playlist her music.

The singer, whose recent release 'Shark In The Water' was only given specialist plays, blamed the station for limiting access to new artists.

"Radio 1 are followers and they act like they lead, but they don't," she told KOKO Podcast.

"They didn't play Ladyhawke for ages and she had to re-release all of her stuff again. Florence [And The Machine] had loads of singles out before this one and they didn't even playlist La Roux at first - she got to number four without them and then they playlisted her."

She added: "It's who the radio stations decide to playlist first. Just because they playlisted Lady Gaga before Little Boots, does that mean that she came first? No, it's very political, so I just tend to concentrate on my music and what I'm doing, and hopefully people will connect to the honesty that I bring.

"It's going to take a while for me, I might not be playlisted straight away, but my album was number eleven on the iTunes chart without getting Radio 1 playlisted. It will come in time, but I have to keep going."

VV Brown releases new single 'Game Over' on September 21.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a172007/vv-brown-blasts-radio-1-playlist.html

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It's true, I've noticed it with a few tracks that i've played on my own show, Master Shortie for example, i played at the end of last year, then in the middle of this year it got playlisted and i started playing it again, the same happened with Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, i played it A YEAR before radio 1 played it, the specialist shows need more of an input with the mainstream playlist.

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I agree to an extent with what she says. Radio1 are very good at promoting and spotting "up front" British rock/indie and dance acts and giving them daytime exposure. They do however seem to be very week at promoting and taking a risk with any "pop" music though, maybe this stems from them having no specialist show for pop? Maybe Switch or another weekend slot could be used for that purpose?

A case of a song getting daytime plays waaay too late is Danny Bird's Red Mist, I first heard it on Annie Mac's mash-up a year ago and loved it, but by the time it was picked up by daytime I was bored of it lol. Although I do understand that that has something to do with how D&B records are released.

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Utter bullshit.

A HUGE amount of commercial radio stations rely on Radio 1's playlist each week to decide what they play themselves! Fact.

Has she ever thought that her song wasn't actually that good?

Radio 1, like every single radio station, plays the music it thinks its audience will like. If the audience want to hear Lady Fecking Ga Ga, then it will get played over VV Brown.

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Utter bullshit.

A HUGE amount of commercial radio stations rely on Radio 1's playlist each week to decide what they play themselves! Fact.

Has she ever thought that her song wasn't actually that good?

Radio 1, like every single radio station, plays the music it thinks its audience will like. If the audience want to hear Lady Fecking Ga Ga, then it will get played over VV Brown.

Shakira - Hips don't lie was Number 1 for 2 weeks, on the official uk singles charts, before radio 1 playlisted it.

VV Brown's previous single, Shark in the water, charted at 34, so obviously people liked it.

>> I'm on here every now and again... <<

http://www.offthechartradio.co.uk

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Shakira - Hips don't lie was Number 1 for 2 weeks, on the official uk singles charts, before radio 1 playlisted it.

VV Brown's previous single, Shark in the water, charted at 34, so obviously people liked it.

It may well have got there, but only stayed in the chart for 1 week, therefore the demand for it isn't that good.

You can get to 34 by hardly selling any singles.

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VV Brown's previous single, Shark in the water, charted at 34, so obviously people liked it.

not very many people just to get to number 34.

Radio 1 have hardly played the new Guetta tune, and that's at number 1 in iTunes. It's hardly played anywhere, so if people like it - they'll buy it.

Radio 1 obviously didn't play VV Brown because it's crap. And she's gone the right way to make sure nobody ever plays any of her singles again.

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not very many people just to get to number 34.

Radio 1 have hardly played the new Guetta tune, and that's at number 1 in iTunes. It's hardly played anywhere, so if people like it - they'll buy it.

Radio 1 obviously didn't play VV Brown because it's crap. And she's gone the right way to make sure nobody ever plays any of her singles again.

The new David Guetta song Sexy Bitch (Chick) was Scotts record of the week a wk or so back and is currently on the B list so it gets a decent amount of play but Pete tong has been playing it as well each week

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The new David Guetta song Sexy Bitch (Chick) was Scotts record of the week a wk or so back and is currently on the B list so it gets a decent amount of play but Pete tong has been playing it as well each week

but they haven't been hammering it into people. The fact it's number one suggests that people are downloading it because they like it and not because radio 1 are telling them to by playing it all the time

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no not at all, she hasn't had her music put on the play list so she goes & rants about it :rolleyes: oh what a surprise, there are plenty of other stations that don't play her stuff & yet she doesn't go around moaning about them does she, its just about getting her in the papers etc & promoting herself.

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She has a point though- it's not as if she'd sound out of place on Radio 1, she's just a victim of the 'flip a coin' policy to see if a song goes on the playlist or not. If it had been played it would most probably have been more successful. I'm not a fan of all her songs (and not this particular track), but I kinda respect what she does and agree with her sentiments.

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