Following on from another thread this is an experiment aimed at DJ's who have DJ'ed at private family functions this weekend.

Below is the current UK TOP 20. To see how important a role the Top 20 plays at the average family function in your local area, please list the tracks that you played at one or more functions this weekend. Please do not include Club / Pub Work where New / Chart Music would be the Norm and expected.

1 Girls Aloud - I'll Stand By You


2 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath


3 Lemar - If There's Any Justice


4 Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For


5 McFly - Room on the 3rd Floor


6 Eminem - Just Lose It


7 U2 - Vertigo


8 JoJo featuring Bow Wow - Baby It's You


9 Usher - Confessions Part II/My Boo


10 Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash


11 Embrace - Ashes


12 Blue - Curtain Falls


13 Eric Prydz - Call On Me


14 Jamelia - DJ/Stop (Parlophone)


15 Britney Spears - My Prerogative


16 White Stripes - Jolene


17 Michael Gray - The Weekend


18 Paul Weller - Thinking Of You


19 I Dream featuring Frankie and Calvin - Dreaming


20 Khia - My Neck My Back (Lick It)

I played

Car Wash - Christina & Missy and
My Perogative - Britney

last weekend - but then Britney was for the children and isnt normally a feature of my set.......

Nothing else from the top 20 though... Will keep a track and let you know about this weekend on Monday!

Going on last weekend (30th Birthday):

Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
Eminem - Just Lose It
Usher - My Boo (Slowie at the end)
Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash
Eric Prydz - Call On Me
Michael Gray - The Weekend (I only got away with this due to mixing out of Eric Prydz and them mixing on into a speeded up Room 5 – Make Love)
(Also played Bobby Brown - My Prerogative – does that count?)

At a typical wedding I might have also played Girls aloud, but maybe not Michael Gray.

I would say that at the moment there are probably more songs in the Top 20 that I would play than normal.

Not one.

Weekend just gone (30th birthday party), nilch, nein, nichts, nada NONE.

Weekend before (21st birthday party) only 1. Call on me.

16th Birthday last weekend.

Did not play a single one of them(no-one requested any of them).

They were what they lovingly refered to as Grebo's(not sure of the spelling of that).

But in saying that, they started off a hokey cokey so we played that followed up with Bob the builder etc. Went down a storm!!!

I kid you not

Dunc.

None, the week beore none, the same the week before that, and that, and that................

Last weeked i played (at a youth club) out of the ones in the top 20

2 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

4 Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For

6 Eminem - Just Lose It

10 Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash

13 Eric Prydz - Call On Me

15 Britney Spears - My Prerogative

17 Michael Gray - The Weekend

20 Khia - My Neck My Back (Lick It)

I must admit the Michael Gray tune is v.nice and Eric Prydz (and before any of you say i don't just like it because of the video )

I seem to have found that teenagers are getting back into dance. A few tunes I seem to play a lot are Stonbebridge- Put Em High, Junior Jack- Stupid Disco, Shapeshifters- Lolas theme along with Michael Gray and Eric Prydz

But for a gig with mainly over fourties I doubt I would play many of the above tunes, they would probably be only to please the kids.

Call on me.

Thats it!


christ I feel old!

OK, I did a mixed company dinner dance for about 70 guests last night in a 4* 'otel

Cracking night. Amongst all the cheese, I also played the following from the list:

1 Girls Aloud - I'll Stand By You
2 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
6 Eminem - Just Lose It
10 Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash
13 Eric Prydz - Call On Me
17 Michael Gray - The Weekend


On to a wedding tonight for 150 guests...

Played at a birthday party in a club last night and managed to squeez in Eric Prydz, but not the chart version........

But tonight i will try and put more chart music in and will keep you posted

Last night 2, 12 & 17 only. All requested and they did thin out the dancefloor.

PaulS

Last night I played:
Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash
Khia - My Neck My Back (Lick It)

18th Birthday 16 - 40 year olds

Another 18th tonight in Swindon

i did a theatre great last night and plaed the grand sum of none. i just find the charts so dire, i try to stay away from them, and i was lucky enough last night that the crowd were more mature and wanted some quality stuff. saying that i played everything from glenn miller to cher, so it turned out a cracking night

saturday night i did a 21st birthday, and from the list i played

1, girls aloud
&
17, michael gray

both as background early doors

and during the main set the only 1 i played was

13, eric prydz

Last Night played -

6 Eminem - Just Lose It

10 Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash

13 Eric Prydz - Call On Me

15 Britney Spears - My Prerogative

17 Michael Gray - The Weekend

all very early on, mainly all 60s 70s and 80s and Genesis, Queen and Gary Moore being the artistes of the moment for some reason.

Jim.

OK – Another Lively 18th last night and we used:

Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
Eminem - Just Lose It
Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash
Blue - Curtain Falls
Eric Prydz - Call On Me
Jamelia - DJ/Stop (Parlophone)
Britney Spears - My Prerogative
Michael Gray - The Weekend
Khia - My Neck My Back (Lick It)

Mark

Last night, big posh wedding, only played for 1.5 hrs after the band, only got this one in:

17 Michael Gray - The Weekend

40 th birthday. Did not play any of the items listed ooppppsss

Last night Dave only played two from your list,
10 Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash
13 Eric Prydz - Call On Me

This wkend was with a band so played less top20 stuff than normal...the band played a lot of chart stuff from the last 5 yrs or so, obviously kept away from that with a lot of 60's and 70's....i played the following tracks earlier in the night (ie the start!)


7 U2 - Vertigo
10 Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash


Top 20 didnt play an important part of the music this wkend!

Steve

Hmm,

Friday night, 21st played:

10 Christina Aguilera feat. Missy - Car Wash
13 Eric Prydz - Call On Me
15 Britney Spears - My Prerogative

Saturday Night, 30th: none, just 70's and 80's !

we spend all that money on new releases, only to play 2 or 3 of them !

i think were daft!

On Saturday did a cabaret night with two acts and then me - only played 1 track, which was Blue - Curtain Falls and that was only during the people arriving when it didnt matter.....

Admittedly an 18th so 1. Car wash
2. Call on me
3. Flashdance
4. What you waiting for
5. My perogative

But.... After playing 2000 stuff for an hour or so I was increasingly asked to 'Go back in time'!

The Formations Top of the Stairs, most of the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, any amount of Sat. Night Fever and Abba, you name it, if you Northern Souled or clubbed in the 70's, that was the music the kids wanted. I was flaberghasted!
What an outstanding night when my expectations were entirely different.

Cheers

JohnD