Broadcast quality
BBC radio's pick of the pops
OK, yeah, sorry, I've been neglecting you. Truth is I've been busy with other things that I'm well behind on normal with my most popular social media/newsletter outlet (find it yourselves), never mind resurrecting this thing for a score or so people, and I've not even had time to listen to anything released so far this year, meaning an ever growing backlog of things that for some part I actively *want* to her. So bear with me.
But in the meantime... some posts I chanced across on a message board revealed that the BBC music stations are still being scrobbled on last.fm, the listening habit conglomerate tool that everyone else abandoned years ago. As such, using some data sifting on there, these were the most played tracks on Auntie's three national pop stations in 2022:
Radio 1
1 LF System - Afraid To Feel
2 Belters Only feat. Jazzy - Make Me Feel Good
3 Diplo feat. Miguel - Don't Forget My Love
4 Florence + the Machine - My Love
5 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)
6 George Ezra - Anyone For You
7 Adele - Oh My God
8 Lizzo - About Damn Time
9 Harry Styles - As It Was
10 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru (Remix)
11 Jax Jones feat. MNEK - Where Did You Go?
12 Chase & Status - Mixed Emotions
13 Beyonce - BREAK MY SOUL
14 Foals - 2am
15 The 1975 - I'm In Love With You
16 Cat Burns - Go
17 GAYLE - abcdefu
18= George Ezra - Green Green Grass
18= Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras - Unholy
20 Dave - Starlight
21 Aitch - Baby
22 Charli XCX feat. Rina Sawayama - Beg For You
23 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me
24 Jack Harlow - First Class
25 Central Cee - Retail Therapy
26= Anne‐Marie & Aitch - Psycho
26= Harry Styles - Late Night Talking
28 Tion Wayne & La Roux - IFTK
29 David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson - Crazy What Love Can Do
30 Wet Leg - Wet Dream
Radio 2
1 Harry Styles - As It Was
2 George Ezra - Anyone For You
3 Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN
4 Lizzo - About Damn Time
5 George Ezra - Green Green Grass
6 Regard and Years & Years - Hallucination
7 Pink - Never Gonna Not Dance Again
8 Tom Grennan - All These Nights
9= Becky Hill & Galantis - Run
9= Lady Blackbird - Feel It Comin'
11 Charli XCX feat. Rina Sawayama - Beg For You
12 The Cast of Encanto - We Don't Talk About Bruno
13 The Weeknd - Sacrifice
14 Harry Styles - Late Night Talking
15 Gayle - abcdefu
16 Camila Cabello feat. Ed Sheeran - Bam Bam
17 Kaiser Chiefs - How 2 Dance
18 Tears For Fears - Break The Man
19 Bruce Spingsteen - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
20 Jax Jones feat. MNEK - Where Did You Go?
21 Harry Styles - Music For A Sushi Restaurant
22 Diana Ross feat. Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine
23 Calvin Harris feat. Dua Lipa & Young Thug - Potion
24 Charlie Puth - Light Switch
25 Dermot Kennedy - Kiss Me
26 Keith Urban - Wild Hearts
27 Beyoncé - BREAK MY SOUL
28 Calvin Harris feat. Justin Timberlake, Halsey & Pharrell - Stay With Me
29 Robbie Williams - Lost
30 The 1975 - I'm In Love With You
Radio 6 Music
1 Kae Tempest feat. Kevin Abstract - More Pressure
2 Warmduscher - Fatso
3 Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down The Line
4 Lucy Dacus - Kissing Lessons
5 Gwenno - An Stevel Nowydh
6 Gabriels - One And Only
7 Khruangbin feat. Leon Bridges - B-Side
8 Ibibio Sound Machine - All That You Want
9= Billy Nomates - Blue Bones
9= The Smile - The Smoke
9= Wet Leg - Angelica
12= alt-J - Hard Drive Gold
12= Kae Tempest feat. Lianne La Havas - No Prizes
12= Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5
15= Ezra Furman - All Of Us Flames
15= Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
17 Arlo Parks - Softly
18 Little Simz - How Did You Get Here
19= Gwenno - N.Y.C.A.W.
19= Melt Yourself Down - Balance
21= Chronixx - Never Give Up
21= Loyle Carner - Hate
23= Ibibio Sound Machine - 17 18 19
23= Robert Glasper feat. Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Kid & Big K.R.I.T. - Black Superhero
25= Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Ceci n'est pas un cliché
25= Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Burning
27= Dijon - Talk Down
27= Dry Cleaning - Don't Press Me
27= Jamie xx - LET'S DO IT AGAIN
27= Wet Leg - Being In Love