Too Much Queen on Auckland Radio - Projects

I had started to form an opinion that Auckland radio stations play too much Queen, Elton John and Rolling Stones. so set out to prove that thinking with data. I was bloody right.
Data collected since 24th June 2023

1.8%
of all songs played are Queen
Too much Queen

Queen are good, but are they so good they should command 1.8% of all songs played on Boomer/GenX radio (GoldFM, The Sound, Coast FM, Radio Hauraki) in Auckland. The answer it a resounding bloody no.

Artist Playcount
Play Count Track
5,818 Queen
5,613 David Bowie
5,513 Rolling Stones
4,813 U2
4,560 Dire Straits
4,557 Fleetwood Mac
4,358 Pink Floyd
4,216 AC/DC
3,911 Talking Heads
3,828 Elton John
3,686 Led Zeppelin
3,573 INXS
3,502 Eagles
3,150 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
2,948 Guns N' Roses
2,913 Aerosmith
2,886 Bruce Springsteen
2,854 Split Enz
2,774 Billy Joel
2,437 The Beatles

373,315
Total songs played
Total Songs played since 24th June 2023

I coded this on 24th June 2023 with only 2 stations, The Sound and Gold FM and then a month later added Hauraki and Coast FM. Even though Coast FM has a month's less data, they are clearly playing more music.

89,098
Hauraki Total Song Count
85,979
The Sound Total Song Count
97,917
The Coast Total Song Count
100,321
Gold FM Total Song Count
Top 20 Songs Playcount for all radio stations
Play Count Track
734Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics
667Money For Nothing Dire Straits
629Livin' On A Prayer Bon Jovi
629Learning To Fly Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
611Rain Dragon
599Go Your Own Way Fleetwood Mac
587Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
559Owner Of A Lonely Heart Yes
555Pour Some Sugar On Me Def Leppard
550Another One Bites The Dust Queen
545Free Fallin' Tom Petty
536Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd
527Under Pressure Queen & David Bowie
513The Final Countdown Europe
511Start Me Up Rolling Stones
504In The Air Tonight Phil Collins
500You Give Love A Bad Name Bon Jovi
499April Sun in Cuba Dragon
496Who Are You The Who
496Dancing In the Dark Bruce Springsteen

Radio Hauraki Top 20 Songs Playcount
Play Count Track
439Out of the Night Racing
307Pull Me Through Royal Blood
287Emotion Sickness Queens of the Stone Age
283The Narcissist Blur
282The American Dream Is Killing Me Green Day
279ONE MORE TIME blink-182
279Under You Foo Fighters
260Apex Boy & Bear
224Beautiful People (Stay High) The Black Keys
220Say It Ain't So Weezer
219Who Really Gets What They Want MACEY
210Everlong Foo Fighters
201Summer of Luv (feat. Unknown Mortal Orchestra) Portugal. The Man
198Dance Stamina Pluto
189Ground On Down Ben Harper
186Overcome Nothing but Thieves
185Santa Monica Everclear
181Are You Gonna Go My Way Lenny Kravitz
181Long White Cross Pluto
179Thunderstruck AC/DC

The Sound Top 20 Songs Playcount
Play Count Track
221Sharp Dressed Man ZZ Top
217All Along The Watchtower Jimi Hendrix
213Smoke On The Water Deep Purple
210Be Mine Tonight Th' Dudes
207That's All Genesis
206White Room Cream
206In The Air Tonight Phil Collins
206I Got You Split Enz
205Who Are You The Who
203Rebel Yell Billy Idol
202The Chain Fleetwood Mac
198Learning To Fly Pink Floyd
197Runnin' Down A Dream Tom Petty
196Learning To Fly Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
196Life's Been Good Joe Walsh
196Free Fallin' Tom Petty
195Go Your Own Way Fleetwood Mac
193Thunderstruck AC/DC
193Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
193Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
3,815
Total unique Artists played
Distinct Artists

Over the years I have spent way too many hours messing with ID3 tags of my own music collections to get them perfect. They are still not. Radio stations ID3 tags are worse than mine. This is the total artists they have played

And below is distinct artists by radio station. I'm willing to bet that at any one time all of them have advertised they have the most variety in music, clearly not the case

843
Unique artists played by goldfm
1,721
Unique artists played by hauraki
1,611
Unique artists played by thecoast
1,050
Unique artists played by thesound