It’s a whole new ballgame with music these days. Music charts are pretty worthless. Music comes and goes so quickly. I did a holiday party last week and let guests request songs before the event. Only a few people did. Long story short, Bad Bunny ruled the night. Thankfully Tidal is built into my Denon Prime console so that kinda saved me. I think I’ll be using it more and more with the unpredictability of popular music.
I specifically find playlists by wedding DJs for the genres/styles I'm looking for. I also ask the other DJs I know with more experience than me for recommendations all the time.
done with gig today and like clockwork you have foresee my current dilemma. downloaded top 60 tiktok songs the night before, most of them are useless and the client keeps bugging me to play latest/current/tiktok songs, they are garbage and not danceable and not to forget they dont sound good if played as a whole track (only good for bite size tiktok videos). playing for gen Z people is hard AF. to my defense that client picked me as a last minute SRS, they didnt even give me a list of songs they want to be played, they just assume i have the whole youtube/tiktok catalog downloaded in my laptop. not even a program list, on the spot they tell me a song and i should play it in 10 seconds or the event fails maygad. my celfon hotspot was my saviour, played most of them quickie request through youtube as searching through my library is slower…
for wedding DJs this may be correct, but for club and bar DJs, i think you are expected to represent whats current, you still have to filter it through your intuition as to what will work on the dancefloor, but the thing is lots of young people go to spotify for their music now because that keeps them up to date with whats trending and if the DJ isnt able to reflect that ,then the DJ is considered by them to be 'out of touch''
I'm not a huge Foo Fighters fan either, but I have played their stuff on a rare occasion, like right after their drummer passed away this year. Funny how public attention/popularity of a song or artist seems to briefly explode for a short time after an artist or band member passes. For example, I just saw this recently at my karaoke shows after Christie McVie of Fleetwood Mac passed away about a week & a half ago. Big spike in women singing those songs the weekend after her passing. This weekend….not as much as last week. It's still there, though….just not as strong as it was immediately following her death. That's the problem these days. Attention spans are a LOT shorter for most people now. Music apps allowing people to literally be their own personal DJ, let alone how the majority of today's music is here today & gone tomorrow, has caused this trend to occur. Everything nowadays is based on & around what's currently trending…..and then it's forgotten about when something else starts trending, which takes the place of whatever was trending yesterday or last week. Therefore, being a DJ in today's world CAN be a bit of a daunting task for this very reason. Like that whole thing from the other day that you posted about with the dance from the Wednesday Netflix thing. Before you know it, people will forget about that when something else comes along to take its' place on the trending list…..and the cycle continues 🥴😵💫
Spotify is often very helpful but of course you also have to use your DJ intuition too. Foo Fighters "Everlong" is 1st on their spotify, Prince "Kiss" is 2nd on his spotify. Taylor Swift's Spotify just got taken over by her new album so that sucks but in about 4 months the top classics will start creeping back up into the top 10 spots again most likely. But If you want to talk about how bad the current Billboard Hot 100 is then i agree! Billboard is worthless now.
I completley agree , I think the billboards are filled with alot of individuals core music more then going out music or something good for groups, things that motivate or ease sad times would be situational to again an individual and I think thats fills the charts most.
Learn to fly and best of you are two very popular foo fighters songs that get sing at karaoke shows. I'm will you on not being in my dance song picks. I did a Christmas this past week for a company I have been doing for 25 years. They rarely dance anymore, but I normally get one or two hours of overtime playing a mix of songs that they want to hear. Times the are a changing.
Save a horse, ride the Dj! Haha
It’s a whole new ballgame with music these days. Music charts are pretty worthless. Music comes and goes so quickly. I did a holiday party last week and let guests request songs before the event. Only a few people did. Long story short, Bad Bunny ruled the night. Thankfully Tidal is built into my Denon Prime console so that kinda saved me. I think I’ll be using it more and more with the unpredictability of popular music.
I specifically find playlists by wedding DJs for the genres/styles I'm looking for. I also ask the other DJs I know with more experience than me for recommendations all the time.
done with gig today and like clockwork you have foresee my current dilemma. downloaded top 60 tiktok songs the night before, most of them are useless and the client keeps bugging me to play latest/current/tiktok songs, they are garbage and not danceable and not to forget they dont sound good if played as a whole track (only good for bite size tiktok videos). playing for gen Z people is hard AF. to my defense that client picked me as a last minute SRS, they didnt even give me a list of songs they want to be played, they just assume i have the whole youtube/tiktok catalog downloaded in my laptop. not even a program list, on the spot they tell me a song and i should play it in 10 seconds or the event fails maygad. my celfon hotspot was my saviour, played most of them quickie request through youtube as searching through my library is slower…
for wedding DJs this may be correct, but for club and bar DJs, i think you are expected to represent whats current, you still have to filter it through your intuition as to what will work on the dancefloor, but the thing is lots of young people go to spotify for their music now because that keeps them up to date with whats trending and if the DJ isnt able to reflect that ,then the DJ is considered by them to be 'out of touch''
The Solution: “Know Thy Audience!” Maybe use some crowd source data like sending out a survey to guests pre gig if possible.
Your right bro!!
In all the years I have DJ'd, I've never had anyone ask for a Foo Fighters song.
They want Everlong
Album version of antihero? No. This is where the homework comes in and finding the right remix.
My main Prince request is P*ssy Control.
I'm not a huge Foo Fighters fan either, but I have played their stuff on a rare occasion, like right after their drummer passed away this year. Funny how public attention/popularity of a song or artist seems to briefly explode for a short time after an artist or band member passes. For example, I just saw this recently at my karaoke shows after Christie McVie of Fleetwood Mac passed away about a week & a half ago. Big spike in women singing those songs the weekend after her passing. This weekend….not as much as last week. It's still there, though….just not as strong as it was immediately following her death. That's the problem these days. Attention spans are a LOT shorter for most people now. Music apps allowing people to literally be their own personal DJ, let alone how the majority of today's music is here today & gone tomorrow, has caused this trend to occur. Everything nowadays is based on & around what's currently trending…..and then it's forgotten about when something else starts trending, which takes the place of whatever was trending yesterday or last week. Therefore, being a DJ in today's world CAN be a bit of a daunting task for this very reason. Like that whole thing from the other day that you posted about with the dance from the Wednesday Netflix thing. Before you know it, people will forget about that when something else comes along to take its' place on the trending list…..and the cycle continues 🥴😵💫
Anti-Hero is an absolute dance floor banger over here. Doesn’t even need a redrum just an intro edit
Spotify is often very helpful but of course you also have to use your DJ intuition too. Foo Fighters "Everlong" is 1st on their spotify, Prince "Kiss" is 2nd on his spotify. Taylor Swift's Spotify just got taken over by her new album so that sucks but in about 4 months the top classics will start creeping back up into the top 10 spots again most likely. But If you want to talk about how bad the current Billboard Hot 100 is then i agree! Billboard is worthless now.
I completley agree , I think the billboards are filled with alot of individuals core music more then going out music or something good for groups, things that motivate or ease sad times would be situational to again an individual and I think thats fills the charts most.
Big Me! Who ain’t a foo fighter fan y’all trippin
The grease mega mix , sorted😉
Learn to fly and best of you are two very popular foo fighters songs that get sing at karaoke shows. I'm will you on not being in my dance song picks. I did a Christmas this past week for a company I have been doing for 25 years. They rarely dance anymore, but I normally get one or two hours of overtime playing a mix of songs that they want to hear. Times the are a changing.
Prince – Erotic City is a banger! 😎 prefer the George Clinton version though. Btw, I appreciate your knowledge and your channel