How many songs for a 4 hour gig?

**Deejaesnafu** · 03-05-2015, 08:40 AM

i usually organize a playlist for the event,out of songs i might play, and just cherry pick from the playlist by reading the crowd. for a 1 hour gig i usually have about a 6-8 hour playlist. new years i played 6 hours and i had a 36+ hour playlist, even though i was told before hand id play for 4 hours, i was able to easily go into a 2 hour overtime with no stress because i knew i could keep playing without having to start frantically looking for tracks every 2 minutes. always over prepare and over back up. this way no matter how long you end up playing, you LOOK as though you could spin forever.

**Chael** · 03-05-2015, 09:29 AM

Looking back over my past mixes i average somewhere between 11 and 14 tracks an hour

**ZxZDeViLZxZ** · 03-05-2015, 10:33 AM

I normally have a playlist of say 200 or so I make playlists for various thing and I kinda know what style of tracks are in each playlists so that helps narrow things down... Again as stated I don't do the add mixing style.... Even when I do mobile Dj gigs I may have a playlist of 500 tracks in running through but normally in 5 hours I may go through 120 tracks that's maybe averaging 3.5minutes a track and that's mostly top40/country

**Kwal** · 03-05-2015, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Jester

A lot more than you actually need is the perfect amount.

This

**Student** · 03-05-2015, 01:21 PM

Well, you could play the entire night with about 100 tracks as 20-25 per hour for a top40 set is normal. The thing however, you should have like 10 times that, to be able to play a wider variety of styles. You don't want to be the guy who only brings dubstep when the crowd wants to hear electro, or d&b, or top40.

**souldancer** · 03-05-2015, 05:47 PM

This

**DJAdeSands** · 03-05-2015, 06:11 PM

60 is going to be approximately what you are going to have played, come the end of the gig. You need to cover all bases, for genre changing if it's not going to plan, requests, and other factors. A few hundred carefully selected should be fine, but one thing a DJ needs to know is their collection, what they have and how to use it.. if you have set planned, not to deviate, hit 100, still gives some scope to change if required..