He's funny, he's smart, and – as Radio 1's head of music – he's the most powerful man in the music industry. I'm here to find out how and why artists make the cut.Īt the head of the meeting table sits George Ergatoudis. Why did I persist? As a twentysomething new music lover and on-and-off Radio 1 listener since my teens, I fit bang into the station's target demographic, yet I've begun to find its daytime roster of hits increasingly bland and passé. This is the Radio 1 playlist committee, a meeting so covert that it took several hundred emails for me to be allowed to sit in on it. Meanwhile, in a surprisingly ordinary conference room on the eighth floor of Broadcasting House, behind various locked doors and black-suited security guards, 12 people are meeting to decide the future of British music. Office workers hide behind popped collars, smoke that final cigarette of their lunch-break and make idle chit-chat with their colleagues. A strong wind sweeps through Portland Place in central London.
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