It’s only natural that they will 
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Not quite all-Australian though, are they 
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That hasn’t stopped us from claiming Kiwis as our own before. 
Why not ? Crowded House were formed in Melbourne (Two Aussies & One Kiwi) and Neil Finn was a resident of Australia at the time
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So, what happened?
- Johnny O’Keefe - Shout (four other songs by O’Keefe were played)
- Ray Brown & the Whispers - Pride (instead we heard ‘Fool, Fool, Fool’ and ‘Twenty Miles’)
- The Allusions - The Dancer
- Easybeats - I’ll Make You Happy
- Liv Maessen - Knock Knock Who’s There
- Ted Mulry - Julia
- Richard Clapton - Deep Water
- Models - Hold On
- Koo De Tah - Too Young For Promises
- Matt Moffitt - Miss This Tonight
So if you count substitutions (eg. different songs by the same artist), half of my wishlist was covered by 2UE today.
For some reason, they also played a lot of Leo Sayer. I know he’s an Australian citizen and resident now, but he wasn’t when those songs were released…
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So some interesting things I’ve noted out of this Greatest 500 countdown on 4BH
- They’ve had Stevie Jacobs voice tracked past 12pm for this countdown, so that’ll make it sound a little more live throughout the afternoon.
- They aren’t doing hourly news bulletins during this countdown, the last one I heard was 9am. That actually annoys me a bit, these were incredibly reliable, they were always there exactly on the hour and I found that valuable. This makes me think it’s just one big automation thing they’ve pressed play on and just let it roll and that timing the news around it was just too hard.
- They mention that people voted for this. How? I don’t listen heaps during breakfast, but during the afternoons for months they’ve mentioned the countdown is coming but never a way to vote for it and the station doesn’t mention a phone number or email etc. So that’s a little confusing, but yea.
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Its not really a countdown then since we did not have a option to vote. There was nothing about it on their websites on how to vote either
It is very strange. Nine Radio should address this
https://www.magic1278.com.au/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/
The countdown is built with the help of listeners across the country voting for their favourite tracks.
That is totally wrong since there was no way for us to vote
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They did the 5pm news.
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All I can think is maybe they do their own private surveys and that’s where it came from?
Alternatively, it’s based on their core audience … ie those who work at Nine Radio and listen all day?
Or maybe it’s just those who have actually emailed via their contact page and/or actually called 131 283? … I wonder what happens if you dial that number?
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“with the help of listeners”
Doesn’t necessarily mean a poll or survey has been conducted to get a 1000-1. Could be feedback, suggestions, requests, something they dusted off in a filing cabinet…
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Looks like they we’re taking votes, but I can’t imagine many would have messaged through the app. I’d guess Facebook messages and emails may have been counted too.
Interestingly it looks like Magic 1278 is the only station with a functioning Facebook page.
Yea, I think they’d finished the countdown for the day then - they’re doing 100 songs per day. The news only seems to be suspended while the countdown is on.
That Magic 1278 Facebook page is so weird. The fact no other station has one but they do shows it mustn’t be nationally endorsed.
I doubt the whole network is run from the Magic studios anyway.
C’mon people, there was no listener feesback on the countdown and I highly doubt there is on any big countdown like this. It doesn’t really matter I guess as long as the person compiling it has good taste.
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I thought it was just me that thought that big countdowns like this are faked.
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They may include a few suggested songs but with a big countdown like this there’s no way they get enough votes to make up the whole thing. Not that it’s a bad thing as I think I’d rather have the majority of the countdown picked by a good programmer than Mavis from Melton requesting ‘Sweet Caroline’ for the millionth time 
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Steve Jacobs does his shows from 2ue/2gb studios since he is Sydney based
Livinia Nixon does her shows from Magic 1278/3aw studios since she is Melbourne based
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Its not live.
They’ve now published the entire countdown as a list on their website for those interested in the full list: https://www.4bh.com.au/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/
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Some great songs there, and great variety too!
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