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 12 Most Played:

1= [29 plays] Junior Walker and The All Stars – Road Runner
1= [29 plays] Shocking Blues – Venus
3= [28 plays] Aretha Franklin – Respect
3= [28 plays] Band The – The Weight
3= [28 plays] Bob and Earl – Harlem Shuffle
3= [28 plays] Buffalo Springfield and Neil Young – For What It’s Worth
3= [28 plays] James Brown – Sex Machine
3= [28 plays] Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky
3= [28 plays] The Doors – Light My Fire
3= [28 plays] The Ronettes – Be My Baby
3= [28 plays] The Troggs – With A Girl Like You
3= [28 plays] The Who – I Can See For Miles

Top 12 Most Played:

1 [25 plays] Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel – Make Me Smile
2= [24 plays] Dave Edmunds – Girls Talk
2= [24 plays] Hot Chocolate – So You Win Again
4= [23 plays] Billy Joel – My Life
4= [23 plays] Free – All Right Now
6= [22 plays] Barry White – Never Never Gonna Give You Up
6= [22 plays] Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle
6= [22 plays] Climax Blues Band – Couldn’t Get It Right
6= [22 plays] Earth Wind and Fire – Fantasy
6= [22 plays] Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell
6= [22 plays] The Clash – London Calling
6= [22 plays] The Knack – My Sharona

Top 11 Most Played:

1= [17 plays] Beastie Boys – You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party
1= [17 plays] Kenny Loggins – Footloose
1= [17 plays] M – Pop Muzik
4 [16 plays] Cher – If I Could Turn Back Time
5= [15 plays] Alice Cooper – Poison
5= [15 plays] Bob Marley and The Wailers – Could You Be Loved
5= [15 plays] Elo – Hold On Tight
5= [15 plays] Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
5= [15 plays] Mental As Anything – Live It Up
5= [15 plays] Pointer Sisters – Jump
5= [15 plays] Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters

Top 18 Most Played:

1= [16 plays each] for:
Embrace – All You Good Good People
Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now
Gun – Word Up
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight Tonight
6= [15 plays each] for:
Counting Crows – Mr Jones, Edwyn Collins – A Girl Like You, Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life, McAlmont and Butler – Yes, Metallica – Enter Sandman, Mock Turtles – Can U Dig It, Olive – You’re Not Alone, Republica – Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cure – Friday I’m In Love, Divine Comedy – Something For The Weekend, Goo Goo Dolls – Iris, New Radicals – You Get What You Give, Urban Cookie Collective – The Key, The Secret

Top 15 Most Played:

1 [26 plays] Primal Scream – Country Girl
2= [25 plays] Ash – Shining Light
2= [25 plays] Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
2= [25 plays] Spiller – Groovejet
2= [25 plays] The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
2= [25 plays] Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
7= [24 plays] Automatic The – Monster
7= [24 plays] Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
7= [24 plays] Daft Punk – One More Time
7= [24 plays] Elbow – One Day Like This
7= [24 plays] Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
7= [24 plays] Ian Brown – F.e.a.r.
7= [24 plays] Stereophonics – Dakota
7= [24 plays] Stereophonics – Maybe Tomorrow
7= [24 plays] The Caesars – Jerk It Out

Top 11 Most Played:

1 [55 plays] Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks
2 [52 plays] Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
3 [49 plays] Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
4 [48 plays] Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
5 [46 plays] One Republic – Counting Stars
6 [44 plays] Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling
7 [43 plays] Fun – We Are Young
8= [41 plays] David Guetta and Sia – Titanium
8= [41 plays] Passenger – Let Her Go
10= [40 plays] Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky
10= [40 plays] Hozier – Take Me To Church

Top 11 Most Played:

1 [44 plays] Bee Gees – Too Much Heaven
2= [34 plays] Chaka Khan – I’m Every Woman
2= [34 plays] Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him
2= [34 plays] Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
5 [33 plays] Genesis – Follow You Follow Me
6= [32 plays] Bellamy Brothers – Let Your Love Flow
6= [32 plays] Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You
8= [31 plays] Billy Joel – My Life
8= [31 plays] Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
8= [31 plays] Labelle – Lady Marmalade
8= [31 plays] Smokey Robinson & Miracles – The Tears Of A Clown

Top 14 Most Played:

1 [37 plays] Temptations – Treat Her Like A Lady
2 [35 plays] Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
3= [34 plays] Jermaine Stewart – We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off
3= [34 plays] Rufus & Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody
5= [33 plays] Bonnie Tyler – Holding Out For A Hero
5= [33 plays] Debarge – Rhythm Of The Night
5= [33 plays] Erasure – Sometimes
5= [33 plays] Kenny Loggins – Footloose
5= [33 plays] Mai Tai – History
5= [33 plays] Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
5= [33 plays] Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You
5= [33 plays] Soft Cell – Tainted Love
5= [33 plays] Taylor Dayne – Tell It To My Heart
5= [33 plays] Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Top 14 Most Played:

1= [34 plays] Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
1= [34 plays] Wilson Phillips – Hold On
3 [33 plays] Rembrandts – I’ll Be There For You
4= [32 plays] Charles & Eddie – Would I Lie To You
4= [32 plays] Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle
4= [32 plays] Crowded House – Weather With You
4= [32 plays] Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
4= [32 plays] Des’Ree – You Gotta Be
4= [32 plays] Hanson – MMMBop
4= [32 plays] Karen Ramirez – Looking For Love
4= [32 plays] Mr. Big – To Be With You
4= [32 plays] Phil Collins – Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
4= [32 plays] Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
4= [32 plays] Toni Braxton – Unbreak My Heart

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