How many times should you play certain tunes at a party?

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December 10, 2012 at 3:22 pm #33355

Hee Won Jung
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IMO you should never play the same song twice in a set…its just cheap…as a DJ you should have enough music with you to fill an entire night without having to repeat a track….hell imo you should never play the same set twice.

December 10, 2012 at 3:25 pm #33357

DJimC
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Normally I’d say that you should never play a certain song more than once during a night. To avoid having to play a popular song for the second or third wave of party-goers, just don’t play it while the club is still filling up. If you have a large enough collection of songs, you should be able to play enough popular songs during the night without repeating yourself.

However, if it’s a top40 club where you need to handle a lot of request, you might deviate a bit and play a certain very popular song 2 times. Still, try to avoid it and play a different popular song from the same artist.

December 10, 2012 at 3:26 pm #33358

Coltrane09
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Hee Won Jung, post: 33511, member: 948 wrote: IMO you should never play the same song twice in a set…its just cheap…as a DJ you should have enough music with you to fill an entire night without having to repeat a track….hell imo you should never play the same set twice.

LOL…Thank goodness. That DJ made me wonder the entire night about his tactics.

December 10, 2012 at 9:23 pm #33389

Anonymous
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That was not professional.

December 10, 2012 at 10:26 pm #33394

NietzSKY
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While I won’t play the same song twice, for certain events (where I use acapella openers) I may mash a little of my first track into the last to create an outro that pays a small bit of homeage to the intro. It’s just something that carried over with me from operatic writing I suppose =P

December 10, 2012 at 10:35 pm #33395

DJ Menno
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I only play the n° 1 top 40 song twice in the same evening if asked for it. More repetition shows a lack of diversity to me, and as you noticed, there’s no building up the atmosphere of the evening.

The radios play those songs 15 times a day and people are used to it… it’s definitely up to the DJ to have more to propose than radios 🙂

December 10, 2012 at 10:53 pm #33397

Anonymous
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NietzSKY, post: 33550, member: 4553 wrote: While I won’t play the same song twice, for certain events (where I use acapella openers) I may mash a little of my first track into the last to create an outro that pays a small bit of homeage to the intro. It’s just something that carried over with me from operatic writing I suppose =P

It would indeed be interesting to incorporate a leifmotif into an evening DJ set!

December 10, 2012 at 11:18 pm #33399

Dirty Hippie
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I agree with what everyone said here. I even hate it when different DJs play the same song at an event. Although they may not have been there the whole night so they can’t always avoid it. Last year I went to a Christmas event in Atlanta and heard 412384704 different versions of “Crush on you” I wanted to puke by like the 3rd time….

… could have been the beer though.

December 11, 2012 at 12:03 am #33405

TheReturn
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I prefer not to do it, but may consider it based on a request and the time of the night.

December 11, 2012 at 7:59 am #33426

Rob Arran
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In a club/bar spinning house….. never.
At a wedding or similar party I would consider playing something twice if it got requested *and* it filled/rocked the dancefloor first time round.

December 11, 2012 at 9:24 am #33432

Terry_42
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I never play it twice unless it is a wedding and the pride or groom ask for it.
Most of the time when I get a request of a song I already played I simply reply: “Well I played that already, but I have song XY from that artist too, is that ok?” In 99.9% of cases you will get a yes and a smile back.

December 11, 2012 at 10:55 am #33444

NewportDJ Drew
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Play the same song twice??? Would be a very rare occurrence in extreme circumstances.

December 12, 2012 at 5:29 pm #33534

Michael Lawrence
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the only time i see it making sense would be if it used in a creative way….like playing the normal version then cutting it and dropping a remix of it in another genre. I would do that back to back but never repeat the same song later on in the night…I think its lazy

December 13, 2012 at 12:04 am #33558

Milos Djordjevic
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One and done is my philosophy

December 14, 2012 at 4:12 pm #33640

Richard Driver
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I might if its a special event, AS LONG AS IT ISNT THE CHA CHA SLIDE, or some other crappy line dance song lol
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