Warming up a top 40 crowd

i hate to say it but any of the new david guetta stuff, its all house based with popular artist like rhianna and such, flo rida works well too…. and depending on what your using (dvs cdjs etc.) loops are your friends… top 40 crowds arent really all that concerned with mixing… they want the tracks they hear on radio… so think builds and echo/flanger transitions.. top 40 crowds also expect to hear you on the mic a bit.. so beef up on that as well… dont be afraid to drop older top 40 tracks as they will still move a crowd…maybe even more so than the newer ones as theyve been around a lil longer and people know all the words and will swing along…. and if all else fails.. black eyed peas will pull people to the dance floor

[FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414]I feel like I found a good solution for a set list of a top 40 crowd, when its not your ideal style, however id love further advice and input about it. My ideal style of music is progressive house but I know thats not what most of the top 40 bar crowd wants. I own pretty much every top 40 radio play track from the last year and keep them in a monthly format in playlists, but I notice thats not enough to fill a whole set. When warming up I usually use about a 80/20 ratio of top 40 classics songs (from Biggie Smalls to Fat Joe)/this years older top 40 (march and back), so I dont waste the good current top 40 songs when the place is full. At the end of the night I like to try to sneak a little bit of prog house music in, so I save top 40 house songs (like anything david guetta puts out…sigh) for the last of my top 40. That way i can make a smooth genre transition into more prog house. (nothing gets the venue going like Avicii-Levels of course). When im making the transition, sometimes I select a track with a long intro instrumental, get on the mic and say something like, “I Hope no one minds, but Im gonna play some F%$#ing house music up in here!!!” …Said confidently, and depending on your crowd, will make them either go crazy on the dance floor or flock away from it. Just use good timing, and perhaps save it for the very end of the night after youve had the floor successfully packed for a while. That way if it fails, the venue cant blame you for not getting people on the dance floor since you already got them there successfully.

Cheers from Boston

-2SHAE!-
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lol so funny. i feel like every DJ made this mashup. check mine out if u got a min…its alright and my serato glitched in the last hook http://www.mixcloud.com/2shae/2shae-believing-in-good-levels/

my first lesson as a dj in a club was as follows find one girl on the dance floor, keep that one chic dancing and youve done your job same applies for top 40 only aim for more than one girl