We’ve a sometime ritual in the office of listening to Annie Mac’s Friday night show on Radio 1 — usually on a Monday via iPlayer. Despite no doubt noble intentions, Annie’s show is a temple of mainstream banality and repetition, its conservative playlist interleaved with vacuous pop soundbytes, obnoxious shouty vocal stings and (most annoyingly) a bloody airhorn sample.
Concerned at this dubious use of prime airtime, I decided the best way to supplement my wild frustration was to play statistician, and work out just how overused those grating little catchphrases are. So a whacking great graph was in order, and some snarky intro copy. And voila: a Monday evening well spent. Presenting: The Trends of Annie Mac.
Ahem. Well, trends are somewhat absent this week — there being only one data point — but tune in this weekend for the scores from Friday’s show, hot off the presses. And spare a thought for the poor bugger who has to listen to the show — at maximum concentration level, natch — to record these sad figures. Volunteers appreciated, I needn’t add. Ow.
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