In both the BBC radio 1 breakfast show playlist and the general playlist for the week, the company uses the same technique of having an A, B, C list along with a new music section as well for the tracks they are going to use for that week. Every Tuesday at 7pm producers from radio 1 sit down, discuss and listen to the music they want to rotate on during the week (A-list records get 25 plays a week, B-list 15, and C-list eight to 10). The breakfast show for example, won't have as much time to play all the planned listed songs for the station in that specific period of time therefore, its imperative that the breakfast show are providing the music the listeners want to hear in the morning as this is the most popular time to listen to the radio. Compared to the weekly playlist, this has longer amounts of time so they can involve all listed tracks throughout this time.
Both playlists are still trying to attract the same under 30 demographics so its important that the songs are chosen to engage and entertain the 'head down' audience. BBC radio 1 do this in multiple ways. One is by once deciding what tracks they are going to keep on from the previous week they look towards new tracks and look at the artist's YouTube views, Soundcloud hits, Shazam ratings, Twitter followers and Facebook likes to help decide which songs will be best to use. they also have a panel of thousands of young people from the age of 12 to 29 in their overall research group, where they pay a research company to test 400 of them every week. they play them the hooks of 25 current songs, most of which they've played over 100 times, and they tell them which they relate to. Along with this if the artist has a gig upcoming its good for researchers to attend to see the type of demographic they are attracting. This way it helps the network attract the demographics targeted at.
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