Data!

Why?

Annie Mac's weekly Radio 1 show is a jaw-clenching unintentional homage to Groundhog Day, except instead of Bill Murray experiencing the same repetitious dross seemingly without end, it's the Radio 1 listenership.

Each week we're treated to a slightly different arrangement of the same tired pop catchphrases, jingles and sound effects sprinkled with choking thickness over a diverse and lengthy playlist of at least twelve electro/dubstep tunes, of which at least four will be principally based on a synth loop from the 80s sped up to 160bpm.

It's not the music that's my chief sore however — I'll leave analysis of that as an exercise for the reader — it's the sad fact that for all her prowess as a DJ, Annie Mac's inter-song monologue is dominated by a bingo card of banal teenage maxims on a constant loop, such that she could easily be replaced with an .M3U file.

It got to the point where I couldn't tell one week's show from the next, so I decided to put some data behind this blind rage and establish just how absurdly recycled the Annie Mac show is. Or at least, the part of it that dear Annie represents.

Just £2 a month could buy new catchphrases for a creativity-starved mainstream radio show. Please, think of the radio shows.

Caveats

• Song lyrics don't count.
• Guests' input doesn't count.
• Echo FX don't count as extra occurrences.

Listener Tips

• The second half of the show is usually less bingo-laden than the first.
• Feel free to suggest additional phrases. "Ibiza" and "Ayia Napa" are cropping up frequently at the moment, but I'm not sure they'll last. I hope they won't last. We're not all desperate to jet off to a sweaty Mediterranean pillfest.
• Listening to the show again and concentrating so you can track the occurrences of phrases is very depressing.

Uh, thanks?

You're welcome.

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