Triple J Just Dropped A Bunch Of Juicy Stats About Requestival Week

Requestival, the week in which triple j programming was handed over to the fans, was an unbelievable success.

Of course, that’s partially because it came at precisely the right time. It’s been a hard, hard year, and having the joy of random songs being played on the national youth broadcaster was a welcome change of pace.

Real emphasis on the word ‘random’ there too. The breadth of the songs played was truly stunning, with everything from John Williams’ Star Wars banger ‘Duel of the Fates’ to the Crazy Frog theme hitting the airwaves. Some of that was excellent trolling. But some of it reflected the real way that listening tastes have changed over the last few years. Pop is broader and stranger than ever before, and Requestival was proof of that.

The week-long celebration came to an end last Sunday. But now, in the aftermath of the chaos, triple j have released some stats about the event. And boy howdy, they’re about as wild as the week-long celebration itself.

For a start, the station received a staggering 105,430 requests. The total number of texts that the stations received hit the 38,000 mark, double what they’d usually get.

The station also pushed the emoji reaction available on their app, and took note of the songs that got very positive and very negative reactions. Perhaps unsurprising, the most divisive tune played all week was ‘Shake it Off’. There’s long been a campaign to get the Taylor Swift banger played on the national broadcaster, and when it was, the audience was split down the middle — 43 percent of listeners hit the heart react, 52.6 percent hit the vomit.

In terms of the most beloved song, that was probably ‘Duel of the Fates’. Eighty five percent of the reactions that came in for that ditty were positive, in comparison to the 52 percent of vomit reactions that flooded in when the station played S Club 7.

Basically, the whole thing was pure chaos. And that’s why we loved it. Read the full breakdown of stats here.