Decade Stations

It’s all about 10 years worth of songs… to be honest there’s not much to see here from the bar chart and graphs point of view, it’s just Global v Bauer with not many songs on Heart’s mostly automated and/or voice tracked selection against Bauer’s larger collection of decades, and larger record collection too (!!), but it’s always interesting to see what everyone else considers to be THE songs of a decade, because every music buff has their own ideas! 

…Of course one can speculate as to whether the songs selected were chosen by someone who’s musical memories were formed with love in the decade concerned, or whether someone “looking in from outside” was given the task – the results can be quite different… An obvious illustration of this being Bryan Adams – Summer of 69 – a total non event when recklessly released in the 80’s, it didn’t even make the top 40 at the time, but in later times has become considered to be one of the biggest and best songs of the 80’s, clearly by people who weren’t there at the time!!

The Absolute family of decade stations used to play a lot more credible and “edgy” selection of tracks, but since they have become part of the Bauer family, the mix of tracks in the 60’s to 90’s section has been ‘dumbed down’ and features a lot more of a “range” of music genres – there’s certainly more pop dance and slightly cheesey offerings than would have been considered acceptable before. The 00’s and 10’s stations have not had much of that happen to them though, but to be honest, with less than 500 songs each on these later additions, it seems that not much time has been spent digging up many nuggets from those decades either – clearly the 80’s and 90’s are the ones that the effort has been put into as far as the music variety is concerned!

Top 10 Most played:
1 [109 plays] Bee Gees – Too Much Heaven
2 [94 plays]  Labelle – Lady Marmalade
3 [91 plays]  Chaka Khan – I’m Every Woman
4 [84 plays]  Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
5 [84 plays]  Johnny Mathis – I’m Stone In Love With You
6 [83 plays]  Toto – Hold The Line
7 [83 plays]  Billy Joel – My Life
8 [83 plays]  Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
9 [82 plays]  Styx – Babe
10 [82 plays]  Diana Ross – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Top 10 Most Played:
1 [80 plays]  Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
2 [80 plays]  The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
3 [79 plays]  A-ha – Take On Me
4 [79 plays]  John Parr – St Elmo’s Fire
5 [78 plays]  Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
6 [78 plays]  Temptations – Treat Her Like A Lady
7 [78 plays]  Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
8 [78 plays]  Curiosity Killed The Cat – Misfit
9 [77 plays]  Erasure – Sometimes
10 [77 plays]  Odyssey – Going Back To My Roots

Most Played Top 10:
1 [96 plays]  Hanson – MMMBop
2 [91 plays]  Chesney Hawkes – One & Only
3 [91 plays]  Karen Ramirez – Looking For Love
4 [87 plays]  Wilson Phillips – Hold On
5 [85 plays]  Robert Palmer – Mercy Mercy Me
6 [85 plays]  Dina Carroll – Ain’t No Man
7 [85 plays]  Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle
8 [85 plays]  Amy Grant – Baby Baby
9 [84 plays]  Rembrandts – I’ll Be There For You
10 [84 plays]  Charles & Eddie – Would I Lie To You

Most Played Top 14:
1= [39 plays] Bob and Earl – Harlem Shuffle
1= [39 plays] Scott McKenzie – San Francisco
1= [39 plays] The Doors – Light My Fire *
1= [39 plays] The Young Rascals – Groovin’
1= [39 plays] Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air
6= [38 plays] Band The – The Weight
6= [38 plays] James Brown – Sex Machine
6= [38 plays] The Everly Brothers – Cathy’s Clown
9= [37 plays] Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer, Junior Walker – Road Runner, Doors – People Are Strange, Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother, Kingsmen – Louie Louie and Van Morrison – Gloria

Most Played Top 12:
1 [44 plays] Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel – Make Me Smile
2 [41 plays] The Clash – London Calling
3= [40 plays] Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You
3= [40 plays] The Cars – Just What I Needed
3= [40 plays] The Chi-Lites – Have You Seen Her
6= [39 plays] A Taste Of Honey – Boogie Oogie Oogie
6= [39 plays] Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street
6= [39 plays] Mcfadden and Whitehead – Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
6= [39 plays] Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
10= [38 plays] Earth Wind and Fire – September
10= [38 plays] Harold Melvin and Blue Notes – The Love I Lost

Most Played Top 10:

1= [25 plays] Guns N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
1= [25 plays] Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart
3= [24 plays] Beastie Boys – You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party
3= [24 plays] Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
5= [23 plays] Adam and The Ants – Antmusic
5= [23 plays] Deacon Blue – Dignity
5= [23 plays] Heaven 17 – Temptation
5= [23 plays] Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
5= [23 plays] Kirsty MacColl – A New England
5= [23 plays] Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters

 Most Played Top 12:
1= [25 plays] Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl & New Radicals – You Get What You Give
3= [24 plays] Nirvana – Lithium
3= [24 plays] Soupdragons – I’m Free
3= [24 plays] The Boo Radleys – Wake Up Boo!
3= [24 plays] Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
7= [23 plays] A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
7= [23 plays] Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
7= [23 plays] Beck – Loser
7= [23 plays] Dee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
7= [23 plays] Faithless – Insomnia
7= [23 plays] Iggy Pop – Lust For Life

Most Played Top 15 Songs:

1= [42 plays] Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl & Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
3 [40 plays] Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
4= [39 plays] Automatic The – Monster
4= [39 plays] Elbow – One Day Like This *
4= [39 plays] Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
4= [39 plays] The View – Same Jeans
8= [38 plays for each of…] Ash – Shining Light, Blink 182 – I Miss You, Elbow – Grounds For Divorce, Evanescence – Bring Me To Life, Kooks – Naive, White Stripes – Seven Nation Army, Train – Drops Of Jupiter & Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag

Most Played Top 10:
1 [70 plays] Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
2= [66 plays] Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
2= [66 plays] Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks
4 [62 plays] Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
5 [59 plays] Passenger – Let Her Go
6 [58 plays] Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling
7 [57 plays] Fun – We Are Young
8 [55 plays] David Guetta and Sia – Titanium
9 [54 plays] Rudimental and John Newman – Feel The Love
10 [53 plays] One Republic – Counting Stars

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