Originally Posted by
Gavin_D:
“http://www.heart.co.uk/on-air/heart-...s-90s-00s-now/
Voting closes Wednesday 17 December”
"There's been some great music over the last 25 years,with the likes of Take That,TLC and the Spice Girls all making hits that hold a firm place in our hearts.",says the website.
Firm place in our hearts maybe,but at least in the case of the Spice Girls,not on the Heart playlist. They usually get only a handful of plays a month,maybe five or six.
Over the whole radio industry,the Spice Girls were played only 204 times,with only Heat radio playing them with any frequency.
Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith were both played nearly twelve thousand times each.
Having said that,that number may be artificially high,because Compare My Radio counts all the various Hearts and Capitals as different stations,whereas we know that apart from the weekday breakfast and drivetime shows,they're basically all the same station playing the same songs at the same time.
However you count them up,it is hard to get away from Sheeran and Smith. They seem to be massively popular. Which remains a mystery to me. Ed Sheeran is playing three nights at Wembley stadium,how his gentle easy listening guitar strumming is going to work in a massive stadium is beyond me. To me,stadium gigs need spectacle if they're to work at all. I've seen Madonna and Michael Jackson at Wembley.
Ed Sheeran? No thanks.
I seem to have drifted rather off topic.