It’s typical of some Australian radio stations to add songs to their playlists long after they were released.
Classic example - “Shut Up and Dance” by Walk the Moon was released in September 2014, yet didn’t attract the attention of Australian stations until April/May the following year.
Just played again around 2:15pm. Not the typical song you would hear on Nova, but it is a great song and good to hear something different on Nova.
They did play “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven (a Canadian rock band with a harder/stronger sound than Nickelback) at the height of that song’s popularity in 2008.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they played that song again as a throwback.
Awesome voice. The below song always gets me.
Ben, Liam and Belle talked about the new track on late drive last night and “had a look through the Nova system” and found one or two older Shinedown tracks. Interesting.
Also of note:
There is now a 7pm national news bulletin after the traffic, complete with Michelle opening with “good afternoon” on occasion.
Still having issues on weekends and after drive with the sponsor bed from the previous package airing instead of new one. Not client related as I’ve heard ads playout by mistake without a bed in the past, so must be carted separately.
Has there never been a 7.00pm News update prior to this week?
If I’m not mistaken they previously stopped at 6pm, similar to other stations but I could be wrong.
I hope they are. So is everyone at Nova’s show only 2 hours? Of course breakfast is longer but it has a similar schedule to a community radio station ha! Can’t wait to hear the Pubjab Radio show on Nova soon.
Is there a chance that they are just repeating the 6pm bulletin, which may start with good afternoon during the DST period?
Not always, possibly on occasion. I think she just gets messed up with time zones having to record a local bulletin for each state every hour through drive
Oh I didn’t realise she presented separated bulletins for each station. Usually listen to ABC Radio or Easy Hits.
Well it’s not as bad as 2Day FM were at one stage, it was a mess of a drive schedule with Carrie & Tommy from 3-4:30pm and then Hughesy and Ed from 4:30-6pm. A great way to confuse listeners!
I think Jase & Lauren will be continuing next week as they will be in Adelaide on Friday for Gather Round.
Does anyone have list of songs from Easter countdown today?
Very “old” hearing Nova say, “songs from the last 30yrs” as part of this countdown.
Yes, I thought it was a strange decision to do a countdown of all these throwbacks. These countdowns are what you hear on 2WS or Smooth.
After all the good work they’ve done to have more Fresh Music and restarting Nova Nation, this seems like backwards step to being a “Hits and Memories” or “Throwbacks” station.
Has this changed? Michelle’s arvo bulletins use to be national hence why weather was read in traffic on Nova 969 and they had traffic reporters in some other markets. I could be wrong and she’s gone back to local bulletins
Good to see this song get some airplay on Nova.
However, this song was released just over ten weeks ago (January 19), and Ava Max is due to drop a new song on Thursday titled “My Oh My”.
Yet another interpolation.
I’m really not a fan of them reworking a popular song to create an average butchered song.
To be honest, I prefer this version over the Shakira original (which I found quite annoying).
It’s been getting quite a lot of airplay over in the UK and has cracked over 100M Spotify streams.
I’ve also heard snippets of Ava Max’s new song and to my knowledge there are no interpolations.