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ILikeBoats · 16-03-2021 2:08pm

At least a bit of variation today with the noughties playlist

paddylonglegs · 16-03-2021 3:14pm

ILikeBoats wrote: »

At least a bit of variation today with the noughties playlist

They are giving Tiesto’s “The Business” the day off

JoeA3 · 16-03-2021 5:45pm

paddylonglegs wrote: »

They are giving Tiesto’s “The Business” the day off

Indeed! That song seems to have replaced Dermot Kennedy's "Giants" on the repeat loop.

Dannyman76 · 17-03-2021 10:43am

Are you even Irish if you haven't heard a "are you even Irish" bit on the radio before?

KanyeSouthEast · 17-03-2021 10:44am

Dannyman76 wrote: »

Are you even Irish if you haven't heard a "are you even Irish" bit on the radio before?

Cringe. Caught about 10 seconds of it this morning. Pathetic rubbish.

Dannyman76 · 17-03-2021 10:47am

KanyeSouthEast wrote: »

Cringe. Caught about 10 seconds of it this morning. Pathetic rubbish.

Fergal D'Arcy throwing the plan for his show in the bin as we speak!

flazio · 21-03-2021 11:51am

JoeA3 wrote: »

Indeed! That song seems to have replaced Dermot Kennedy's "Giants" on the repeat loop.

Or that song that tries to tell me you can't make a wife out of a garden utensil.

statto25 · 21-03-2021 12:27pm

flazio wrote: »

Or that song that tries to tell me you can't make a wife out of a garden utensil.

The which now!

flazio · 21-03-2021 3:51pm

Had to Google it, "Without You" by The Kid Laroi. Technically the song title is in all caps but flup that.
Today FM was the background station at work between 6.45 and 3pm and every programme on between those hours played that song.

Brock Turnpike · 21-03-2021 11:07pm

flazio wrote: »

Had to Google it, "Without You" by The Kid Laroi. Technically the song title is in all caps but flup that.
Today FM was the background station at work between 6.45 and 3pm and every programme on between those hours played that song.

The worst part is that it is an utterly terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE, song.

JoeA3 · 22-03-2021 9:59am

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

The worst part is that it is an utterly terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE, song.

It’s another one of those whining beardy man-with-a-guitar “tunes” that are so in vogue these days, particularly with Today FM.

ILikeBoats · 22-03-2021 10:22am

Glass Animals are the flavour of the month too. Sick of it already

BPKS · 22-03-2021 4:31pm

Anytime I tune into Today FM they seem to be playing a song by some one who sounds like Adele (might be Adele) about stalking her ex by driving alone past their house or up their street or something.

Just as well it was sung by a man as that wouldn't go down too well in the current environment.

stronglikebull · 22-03-2021 5:11pm

flazio wrote: »

Had to Google it, "Without You" by The Kid Laroi. Technically the song title is in all caps but flup that.
Today FM was the background station at work between 6.45 and 3pm and every programme on between those hours played that song.

Ah yes, the Chemical Wife song :pac: It's on all the time now and is really starting to get on my tits.

BPKS wrote: »

Anytime I tune into Today FM they seem to be playing a song by some one who sounds like Adele (might be Adele) about stalking her ex by driving alone past their house or up their street or something.

Olivia Rodrigo, and it's such an annoying song. It must really grate for the thousands of people who can't get a driving licence here right now.

EverythingGood · 22-03-2021 5:15pm

That fcuking Lets get down to business is on every show, drives me crazy, **** song

robo · 22-03-2021 5:20pm

I have given up on the music on TodayFM - rarely listen now during the day, except for Sunday nights from 7pm with Ed Smith. The station's music choices are woeful

TaurenDruid · 23-03-2021 12:19am

Even Stairway to Heaven or Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt becomes a **** song when it's played literally every single show. I had tickets for Dermot Kennedy in St Anne's but I've heard 'Giants' soooo f'n often over the lockdown I think I'll pass it's rescheduled and spend the ticket money on five gigs in The Academy or Whelan's instead.

ButtersSuki · 23-03-2021 1:27am

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Even Stairway to Heaven or Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt becomes a **** song when it's played literally every single show. I had tickets for Dermot Kennedy in St Anne's but I've heard 'Giants' soooo f'n often over the lockdown I think I'll pass it's rescheduled and spend the ticket money on five gigs in The Academy or Whelan's instead.

Wait until you hear Joe Duffy sing it....yes, that happened.

stronglikebull · 23-03-2021 9:17am

Once again, Omi's Cheerleader was on this morning. Why oh why are they still playing that crap song? I've noticed in the last year that there's a certain set of older songs that get played daily on the station. There's that one, Daft Punk/Pherell - Get Lucky, Example - Kickstart (awful song), that bloody Sweedish House Maffia song (can't remember the name), and a few others that are on inexplicably often. Are these songs cheap or free to play or what? There's no reason to pick the same ones over and over.

BPKS · 23-03-2021 10:27am

stronglikebull wrote: »

Once again, Omi's Cheerleader was on this morning. Why oh why are they still playing that crap song? I've noticed in the last year that there's a certain set of older songs that get played daily on the station. There's that one, Daft Punk/Pherell - Get Lucky, Example - Kickstart (awful song), that bloody Sweedish House Maffia song (can't remember the name), and a few others that are on inexplicably often. Are these songs cheap or free to play or what? There's no reason to pick the same ones over and over.

Probably easier to copy and paste bits of playlist from differents show on the station to create a new music for another show.

That's Step 1 in being a Content Creator.

channelsurfer2 · 23-03-2021 10:34am

Stuck listening to the two "comedians" in an outpatients waiting room for the last 30 mins.the fake laughter and banter is awful..should have brought my earphones and tuned out to rte gold my usual choice.

johnire · 23-03-2021 10:50am

This morning was the first time in a year that I tuned into Today FM. We always had in on in the background at work but since WFH I never bothered with it. I had to drive this morning to an appointment at 9 and the first song I heard on the D and D show was Gavin James - Always! Seriously..... it was like Groundhog Day. Listening to D and D too was pretty uninspiring- still going on with that “ Irish” rubbish.

statto25 · 23-03-2021 10:54am

johnire wrote: »

This morning was the first time in a year that I tuned into Today FM. We always had in on in the background at work but since WFH I never bothered with it. I had to drive this morning to an appointment at 9 and the first song I heard on the D and D show was Gavin James - Always! Seriously..... it was like Groundhog Day. Listening to D and D too was pretty uninspiring- still going on with that “ Irish” rubbish.

Nothing is going to change as the station still has decent figures. The only way is to change dial and save your sanity

Dannyman76 · 23-03-2021 10:55am

BPKS wrote: »

Probably easier to copy and paste bits of playlist from differents show on the station to create a new music for another show.

That's Step 1 in being a Content Creator.

Notice how if one DJ plays a rarely played old song it gets played in every other show after that

ILikeBoats · 23-03-2021 10:55am

stronglikebull wrote: »

Once again, Omi's Cheerleader was on this morning. Why oh why are they still playing that crap song? I've noticed in the last year that there's a certain set of older songs that get played daily on the station. There's that one, Daft Punk/Pherell - Get Lucky, Example - Kickstart (awful song), that bloody Sweedish House Maffia song (can't remember the name), and a few others that are on inexplicably often. Are these songs cheap or free to play or what? There's no reason to pick the same ones over and over.

Katy Perry - Firework and Outkast - Hey Ya will also be played without fail

Comic Book Guy · 23-03-2021 5:11pm

stronglikebull wrote: »

Once again, Omi's Cheerleader was on this morning. Why oh why are they still playing that crap song? I've noticed in the last year that there's a certain set of older songs that get played daily on the station. There's that one, Daft Punk/Pherell - Get Lucky, Example - Kickstart (awful song), that bloody Sweedish House Maffia song (can't remember the name), and a few others that are on inexplicably often. Are these songs cheap or free to play or what? There's no reason to pick the same ones over and over.

I just flicked over to Today fm after Moncrief finished and that Swedish House Mafia song has just finished!!

TaurenDruid · 23-03-2021 6:11pm

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

Stuck listening to the two "comedians" in an outpatients waiting room for the last 30 mins.the fake laughter and banter is awful..should have brought my earphones and tuned out to rte gold my usual choice.

Good to see outpatients is catering for the majority of people's listening tastes, and some light-hearted banter from professional comedians is probably just what you need in such a situation:

"In mid-morning (9am-12pm), Dermot & Dave are celebrating a record audience high of 183,000, (+20,000 BoB) making them the most listened to show in that time slot on commercial radio." ~ from last November's JNLR's.

So they're doing something right?

Chuck Noland · 23-03-2021 8:44pm

BPKS wrote: »

Probably easier to copy and paste bits of playlist from differents show on the station to create a new music for another show.

That's Step 1 in being a Content Creator.

That’s not how it works. Songs are Categorised into folders. The playlist software then chooses songs from each folder randomly and within the restrictions on that folder say For example

High rotation (top 10). songs not to be repeated for 2-3 hours
Medium rotation (recent hits). songs not to be repeated in a day
Irish. Songs not to be repeated in say 6 hours

The playlist is then built in folder format on the advise of well paid external music research company’s normally and an example of this would be

News
High rotation
Add
High rotation
Medium rotation
Add
High rotation
Irish
High rotation
Add
News

This is obviously a very very basic example and things like links, features, competitions all need to be factored in. Add in slots then for music to tie into cheese and crackers and the “text in too choose” features, but I think you get the jist. As new songs hit the charts and “scores well” with music research company’s they get added into the high rotation folder. As songs fall in the charts they move into the medium rotation and so on. Again this is very basic but the majority of music radio from 6am - 6pm is done is this fashion to ensure the stations “sound” is kept to.

Very few Radio Presenters during those hours actually get to choose what they put out on the air but part of the “magic of radio” is leading people to believe they do.

TaurenDruid · 23-03-2021 10:18pm

Chuck Noland wrote: »

That’s not how it works. Songs are Categorised into folders. The playlist software then chooses songs from each folder randomly and within the restrictions on that folder say For example

High rotation (top 10). songs not to be repeated for 2-3 hours
Medium rotation (recent hits). songs not to be repeated in a day
Irish. Songs not to be repeated in say 6 hours

I absolutely get the requirement for a radio station that's trying to appeal to X demographic to have to play a certain proportion of 'hot' songs, a lesser proportion of medium rotation, etc. Despite some views here, that "sh1te" song is really popular for a reason - and therefore has to be played.

It would be nice, though, if they'd adjust the algorithms somewhat. Did people listen to the radio as much, pre-lockdown? I'm gonna guess probably not? WFH, it's not uncommon to hear some of the same songs repeated on every show during the day (examples in the last two pages) - or, at least, it seems that way.

I could stand to hear "Giants" or "The Business" or "Driver's Licence" once a day. Hearing them on D&D then on Mairéad Ronan, then on Fergal d'Arcy too... not so much!

channelsurfer2 · 23-03-2021 10:20pm

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Good to see outpatients is catering for the majority of people's listening tastes, and some light-hearted banter from professional comedians is probably just what you need in such a situation:

"In mid-morning (9am-12pm), Dermot & Dave are celebrating a record audience high of 183,000, (+20,000 BoB) making them the most listened to show in that time slot on commercial radio." ~ from last November's JNLR's.

So they're doing something right?

Each to their own as they say but not for me probably a minority.but if you call that banter I call it mind numbing.. having got used to will and Rick on rte gold I know what I prefer..

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