# Radio Station Play lists How many songs?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-station-play-lists-how-many-songs/413937
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-station-play-lists-how-many-songs/413937 "2007-08-01T04:58:45Z")
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### Author: ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-station-play-lists-how-many-songs/413937/1 "2007-08-01T04:58:45Z")

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How many songs do most music radio stations have in rotation?

Top 40 stations probably have fewer than a classic rock station, but do they only have 40 songs in rotation?

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### Author: ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-station-play-lists-how-many-songs/413937/2 "2007-08-01T05:45:45Z")

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Back during the early 90’s, the local classic rock station in my town used to boast it had 1000 songs in its music library and occasionally even set aside a few days to play it’s “Top 1000 of All Time.”

Of course this was a few years before people started storing thousands of songs in their computer hard drives and MP3 players. Saying your music library has 1000 songs now seems rather underwhelming.