THIS IS A RECENT EXAMPLE OF THE BBC’S PLAYLIST CONTENT: 

Radio 1

A Playlist

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning.

The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling.

Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor.

Chicane - Poppiholla.

Chipmunk - Diamond Rings.

Florence And The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up).

Frankmusik - Confusion Girl.

Green Day - 21 Guns.

David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland - When Love Take Over.

Keri Hilson featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo - Knock You Down.

The Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky.

JLS - Beat Again.

Kings Of Leon - Notion.

La Roux - Bulletproof.

Lady Gaga - Paparazzi.

Madina Lake - Let’s Get Outta Here.

Mr Hudson featuring Kanye West - Supernova.

Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho).

Tinchy Stryder featuring Amelle - Never Leave You

B Playlist

3Oh!3 - Don’t Trust Me.

Beyonce - Sweet Dreams.Biffy Clyro That Golden Rule.

The Blackout - Save Our Selves.

Bloc Party - One More Chance.

Dizzee Rascal - Holiday.

Eminem - Beautiful.

Fightstar - Never Change.

Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend.

The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale.

Mpho - Box N Locks.

MSTRKRFT featuring John Legend - Heartbreaker.

Pink - Funhouse.

Britney Spears - Radar.

Sub Focus - Rock It.

Vagabond - Don’t Wanna Run No More

C Playlist

Lily Allen - 22.

Danny Byrd - Red Mist

Enter Shikari - No Sleep Tonight

Just Jack - The Day I Died

Kasabian - Where Did All The Love Go?

Sean Kingston - Fire Burning

Little Boots - Remedy

Miike Snow - Animal

Raygun - Just Because

Serani - No Games

Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity Of Huge

Radio 2

A Playlist

a-ha - Foot Of The Mountain

Benny Andersson Band - Story Of A Heart

Elviin - In Colour

Frankmusik - Confusion Girl

James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You

Nell Bryden - What Does It Take?

Polarkreis 18 - Allein Allein

Raphael Saadiq (ft. Stevie Wonder) - Never Give You Up

Regina Spektor - The Calculation

VV Brown - Shark In The Water

B Playlist

Alison Krauss - Simple Love

Ben’s Brother - Questions & Answers

Green Day - 21 Guns

Martina McBride - Ride

Paolo Nutini - Coming Up Easy

Paul Carrack - Just 4 Tonite

Pussycat Dolls - Hush Hush; Hush Hush

Simple Minds - Stars Will Lead The Way

The Low Anthem - To Ohio

The Third Degree - Mercy

Vagabond - Don’t Wanna Run No More

C Playlist

Doves - Winter Hill

Gary Go - Engines

Lightning Seeds - Don’t Walk On By

Madness - Sugar and Spice

Neil Sedaka - Do You Remember?

How is the playlist selected?

The Playlist Committee, made up of producers and chaired by Jeff Smith, Head of Music Radio 2, meet each week to decide which new releases will be added to the station’s playlist.

The playlist contains about 30 tracks which are divided into three levels: A list, which receive the most plays, about 20 each week; B list 10 plays and the C list around 5 plays.

The Radio 2 playlist is one of the most varied of any radio station in the UK and can include albums as well as singles. Before any CD can be considered for inclusion it must be commercially available.