Radio DJs still hits with listeners

Even with the wisdom of crowds on tap in streaming apps, radio DJs are still finding us our new favourite songs

Teenage Kicks by the Undertones. So good the late BBC DJ John Peel famously played it twice in a row offering his audience the simple explanation that “it doesn’t get much better than this”.

Not long after Peel’s repeat play of Teenage Kicks in 1978, Irish radio listeners were treated to three new songs from a young Dublin band and invited to vote on which of them should be the A-side on its ...