It isn’t, you’ll hear most of those songs played (likely some more than once) on WSFM if you listen at the same times over a couple of days.
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Given the conversations on the “Grant Broadcasters” thread, I thought I would compare how some of the stations sounded on this day 2 years ago, and then compare it to how it sounds now.
Firstly, from Monday 6th May 2019 at 10am-12pm AEST, back when the following stations still had their own Music Directors, and therefore their own logs which wasn’t shared with other stations.
Wave FM 96.5 - Wollongong, NSW
"The Illawarra’s Best Music"
10:00am
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
Ava Max - So Am I
REM The One I Love
Dominic Fike - 3 Nights
Pink - Whatever You Want
Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl
George Ezra - Shotgun
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
The Badloves - Lost
Khalid / Normani - Love Lies
Taylor Swift - Blank Space
Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
11:00am
Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better
The Cars - You Might Think
Rita Ora - Let You Love Me
Birds Of Tokyo - Plans
Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time
The Chainsmokers / 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love
Imagine Dragons - Thunder
Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
Conrad Sewell - Changing
OneRepublic - Counting Stars
Marshmello / Chvrches - Here With Me
Tom Petty - Free Fallin’
Rudimental / Ed Sheeran - Lay It All On Me
River 94.9 - Ipswich, QLD
"The Best Music Mix"
10:00am
INXS - Burn For You
Hoobastank - The Reason
Katy Perry - Roar
The Knack - My Sharona
Busby Marou - Best Part Of Me
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day
Diesel - Man Alive
Magic! - Rude
Faith Hill - This Kiss
Noiseworks - Touch
Amy Shark - Mess Her Up
Big Audio Dynamite - Rush
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)
11:00am
Ronan Keating - Lovin’ Each Day
Paul Simon - Graceland
DNCE - Cake By The Ocean
Guns N’ Roses - Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Cold Chisel - My Baby
Ava Max - So Am I
Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
Paul Kelly / The Messengers - Before Too Long
Justice Crew - Que Sera
Hot 91 - Sunshine Coast, QLD
"Today’s Best Music"
10:00am
Bryan Adams - Can’t Stop This Thing We Started
Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven
George Ezra - Hold My Girl
Coldplay / The Chainsmokers - Something Just Like This
Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
Pink - Walk Me Home
Peking Duk / Sarah Aarons - Fire
Daryl Braithwaite - The Horses
Marshmello / Bastille - Happier
Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Fastball - The Way
The Veronicas - Think Of Me
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
11:00am
Charli XCX / Troye Sivan - 1999
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
Calum Scott / Tiesto - Dancing On My Own (Remix)
Amy Shark - Mess Her Up
The Pussycat Dolls / Busta Rhymes - Don’t Cha
Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes
Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
Ava Max - So Am I
Beyonce - Irreplaceable
Kygo / Miguel - Remind Me To Forget
Jimmy Barnes - I’d Die To Be With You Tonight
Fast forward exactly 2 years later (Thursday 6th May 2021 at 10am-12pm AEST), and those stations now use logs that are heard on multiple stations, some of which may not be sourced locally.
Wave FM 96.5
"The Illawarra’s Best Music"
Log originated from: 7HOFM Hobart
Also heard on: Sea FM Burnie & Devonport
10:00am
Gavin DeGraw - I Don’t Want To Be
Amy Shark / Keith Urban - Love Songs Ain’t For Us
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight
Sam Smith - Diamonds
Maroon 5 - Sugar
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Joel Corry / Raye / David Guetta - Bed
Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
24kGoldn / Iann Dior - Mood
Blind Melon - No Rain
Khalid / Normani - Love Lies
Bernard Fanning - Wish You Well
Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
11:00am
Jawsh 685 / Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) (Remix)
Avicii / Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up
Sam Fischer / Demi Lovato - What Other People Say
Live - All Over You
Mark Ronson / Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
Guy Sebastian - Standing With You
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Birds Of Tokyo - Lanterns
Dua Lipa - We’re Good
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Hailee Steinfeld / Grey / Zedd - Starving
Stereophonics - Dakota
River 94.9 - Ipswich, QLD
"The Best Music Mix"
Log shared with: Bay 93.9 Geelong, 3BA Ballarat, LAFM Launceston, 7SD Scottsdale, 7XS Queenstown & Mix 104.9 Darwin
10:00am
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Tones & I - Fly Away
The Hooters - All You Zombies
Taxiride - Get Set
Milky Chance - Stolen Dance
The Knack - My Sharona
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Jonas Brothers - Sucker
Nine Days - Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)
The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
Maroon 5 / Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
Meat Loaf - I’d Do Anything For Love
Coldplay - Talk
A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
11:00am
John Farnham - Age Of Reason
The Weeknd - Save Your Tears
Bon Jovi - Always
Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
Jerry Harrison - Rev It Up
Fergie - Big Girls Don’t Cry
John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good
George Ezra - Budapest
Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Kygo / OneRepublic - Lose Somebody
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
Hot 91 - Sunshine Coast, QLD
"Today’s Best Music"
Log shared with: Every other Hot AC station except 7HO, Wave FM & Sea FM Burnie/Devonport
10:00am
Katy Perry - Roar
Sam Fischer / Demi Lovato - What Other People Say
Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer
Ava Max - My Head & My Heart
Rudimental / Jess Glynne / Macklemore / Dan Caplen - These Days
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Nick Jonas - This Is Heaven
Pink - Who Knew
Guy Sebastian - Love On Display
Jimmy Barnes - Driving Wheels
Khalid / Normani - Love Lies
Taylor Swift - Mr. Perfectly Fine
Sigala / James Arthur - Lasting Lover
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
11:00am
Illy / Vera Blue - Papercuts
Olivia Rodrigo - Drivers License
Daft Punk / Pharrell Williams / Nile Rodgers - Get Lucky
Smash Mouth - I’m A Believer
Tom Grennan - Little Bit Of Love
Flume / Tove Lo - Say It
Bryan Adams - Run To You
Sam Smith - Diamonds
Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes
Glass Animals - Heat Waves
Ginuwine - Pony
Dua Lipa - Break My Heart
Imagine Dragons - On Top Of The World
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Those are all just awful IMO. There’s nothing original or remotely interesting in any of them. Spotify or my iPod is a better option than these Grant playlists.
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Agreed. None of them hook me in at all.
To me, none have a format. It’s a bunch of songs from all eras on shuffle.
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I’m trying to look for the track listing’s from 1242 4AK Toowoomba from July 2020 Till May 2021 mainly the party mix and trending 20
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no need to create a new thread everytime you want a playlist from a certain station. Put them in this thread, thanks
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It looks like lava.net.au froze around 2pm yesterday. No new songs are showing up.
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How are the Central Coast’s two most popular music stations sounding these days? Very similar.
Neither of the logs are particularly great, with some awkward song transitions (eg. George Michael to Britney Spears, or Bieber to Toto).
Hit101.3 Central Coast
16/06/21, 10-11am
| Date | Time | Artist | Title | Duration | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-16 | 10:06:21 AEST | Swoop | Apple Eyes | 3m 26s | 1995 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:09:41 AEST | Vance Joy | Missing Piece | 3m 37s | 2021 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:13:02 AEST | Jordin Sparks | Tattoo | 3m 53s | 2007 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:16:44 AEST | Justin Bieber | Hold On | 2m 51s | 2021 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:19:44 AEST | Toto | Africa | 4m 56s | 1982 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:24:23 AEST | Topic / A7S | Breaking Me | 2m 47s | 2019 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:27:09 AEST | Craig David | Fill Me In | 4m 17s | 2000 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:31:05 AEST | Taylor Swift | Mr. Perfectly Fine | 4m 38s | 2021 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:35:25 AEST | Naughty By Nature | Hip Hop Hooray | 4m 27s | 1992 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:44:07 AEST | Keith Urban / Pink | One Too Many | 3m 24s | 2020 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:47:28 AEST | Planet Funk | Who Said | 3m 45s | 2002 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:50:28 AEST | Glass Animals | Heat Waves | 3m 59s | 2020 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:53:09 AEST | Rick Springfield | Jessie’s Girl | 3m 15s | 1981 |
Star 104.5
16/06/21, 10-11am
| Date | Time | Artist | Title | Duration | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-16 | 10:06:01 AEST | Deep Blue Something | Breakfast At Tiffany’s | 4m 17s | 1993 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:10:03 AEST | The Weeknd | Save Your Tears | 3m 36s | 2020 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:13:22 AEST | George Michael | Careless Whisper | 6m 32s | 1984 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:17:03 AEST | Britney Spears | Toxic | 3m 19s | 2003 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:20:24 AEST | Taylor Swift | Mr. Perfectly Fine | 4m 38s | 2021 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:24:44 AEST | Cut ‘N’ Move | Give It Up | 4m 25s | 1993 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:28:42 AEST | OneRepublic | Counting Stars | 4m 17s | 2013 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:38:26 AEST | Michael Jackson | Bad | 4m 7s | 1987 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:42:27 AEST | Beyonce | Irreplaceable | 3m 48s | 2006 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:47:08 AEST | Banners | Someone To You | 3m 40s | 2019 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:50:28 AEST | Madonna | Ray Of Light | 5m 21s | 1998 | |
| 2021-06-16 | 10:54:28 AEST | Maroon 5 | Girls Like You | 3m 35s | 2018 |
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You did your sweep on Hit’s Oh Wow Wednesdays. Not their normal playlist.
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What’s wow about Africa or Jesse’s Girl? Other than wow my god, that song for the millionth time.
Annoys me when a hit station does an 80s flashback and it’s such a lame flogged song.
The Star log is much better in my opinion.
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Here’s another snapshot of the Central Coast commercial stations from this morning, which should show a more normal playlist for Hit. I also throw in Triple M there as well.
Hit 101.3
“The Hits You Love From Then To Now”
Thursday 17th June 2021 - 10-11am AEST
“Take You Dancing” Jason Derulo
“To Be With You” Mr Big
“Goosebumps (Remix)” Travis Scott / Hvme
“Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” Kylie Minogue
“Come Turn Me On” Casey Barnes
“I Wanna Be The Only One” Eternal
“We’re Good” Dua Lipa
“Haven’t Met You Yet” Michael Bublé
“Look Into My Eyes” Brando
“Fading Like A Flower (Everytime You Leave)” Roxette
“Cover Me In Sunshine” Pink / Willow Sage Hart
“There’s Nothing Holding Me Back” Shawn Mendes
“Someone To You” Banners
“Missing” Everything But The Girl
Star 104.5
“More Music Variety”
Thursday 17th June 2021 - 10-11am AEST
“She Will Be Loved” Maroon 5
“All Night Long (All Night)” Lionel Richie
“Electric” Katy Perry
“Losing My Religion” R.E.M.
“Diamonds” Rihanna
“I’m Still Standing” Elton John
“You Broke Me First (Remix)” Tate McRae / Luca Schreiner
“Genie In A Bottle” Christina Aguilera
“Electric Blue” Icehouse
“Kiss Me More” Doja Cat / SZA
“Walking On Broken Glass” Annie Lennox
“Something Like This” Coldplay / The Chainsmokers
107.7 Triple M
“Rock’s Greatest Hits”
Thursday 17th June 2021 - 10-11am AEST
“Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)” Green Day
“Basket Case” Green Day
“Flame Trees” Cold Chisel
“The Angel of 8th Ave” Gang Of Youths
“I Won’t Back Down” Tom Petty
“Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?” The Angels
“Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” Stevie Wright
“Let Her Cry” Hootie & The Blowfish
“Need You Tonight” INXS
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And for the sake of accuracy, MMM is in the middle of the tactic “Greatest Decade of all Time.”
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I agree 100% ,who wants to hear one of those songs for the millionth time:-1:
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Out of that I’d listen to Triple M, can’t imagine too many people into Icehouse and Doja Cat
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Wow, that Triple M playlist is sooo… Triple M! The exact same playlist could have been picked out from a random time 10 or 15 years ago - there is a greater variety of rock music around surely?
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As I posted, we are doing the Greatest Decade tactic at present, so we are running high on the most loved 70s, 80s, 90s at present. It’s not a normal playlist for the next couple of weeks. Same with Hit’s OWW. It’s not a normal playlist.
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And today is apparently R&B Fridays. Do they ever have a ‘normal’ playlist? 
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Aren’t Central Coast in ratings period at the moment?
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Given the comments about Star in Mackay (& other Regional QLD markets) being a good local sounding station, as well as the fact that it hit #1 in the Mackay ratings at the expense of Hit (see what I did there? 
), I thought I’d take a look at a typical hour’s playlist for that station.
Star 101.9 - Mackay, QLD
"Today’s Best Music"
Friday 9th July 2021 - 1-2pm AEST
“Never Seen The Rain” Tones & I
“Love Not War (The Tampa Beat)” Jason Derulo / Nuka
“Hey, Soul Sister” Train
“Teenage Dirtbag” Wheatus
“Anyone” Justin Bieber
“Symphony” Clean Bandit / Zara Larsson
“Great Southern Land” Icehouse
“Mood” 24kGoldn / Iann Dior
“Call Me Maybe” Carly Rae Jepsen
“Missing Piece” Vance Joy
“Break My Stride” Unique II
“Stitches” Shawn Mendes
“Breaking Me” Topic / A7S
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I was in westfield Hurstville doing the grocery shop today. Wondering if the lava system covers the music that is played in shopping centres. I’m wanting to know the track that came after these two. These tracks were played around about 1:50 to 2:00 this afternoon.
Songs listed in exact sequence order.
Jason Derulo - Don’t cry for me (featuring Alok and Martin Jense)
Olivia Rodrigo - All I want
??? - I can’t love anymore / I can’t love (not sure, couldn’t hear song title properly.
Seemed to be like a dancey kind of a song with female vocals.
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