How many songs for a 4 hour gig?
Ive been wondering how many songs would I need to have in a crate for a 4 hour gig. I cant play every song I have so Id like to quantify it somehow if I can. What do you guys think will 240 songs should do it I figure @ 3 minutes per song 300 songs for overhead.
Umm depending on style of music 60 at most I average 10-14 an hour this depends entirely on genre I’m playing
i average 10 per hour, sometimes more sometimes less…
Wow I was totally wrong on this one lol.
I’m old school… So the a.d.d. Dj thing is not my style. 
I average 70-80 on a 5 hour set. But can do less if I’m playing more soulful house
Note: my number includes having multiple tracks playing at once on ocassion.
I’d suggest the 300 in a playlist to cover tracks people may request…but you probably won’t play anywhere near that many
I average just under 18 songs per hour. That’s mostly Top 40 style songs.
For a “routine” I have about 1/3 more music that I need.
For a “free form” set I prep about 2x more music than I expect to need.
A lot more than you actually need is the perfect amount.
I do a lot of gigs where i play 6-7 hours. from what i’ve learned after checking the traktor history after every gig, i tend to play 150-200 a night. but since i use traktor i don’t really care cause i carry music to play for a few months straight 
Thats a lot of red bulls mate
lol I have no idea…all I know is I have enough tracks to play for a few years, thats all I need to know
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.
Looking back over my past mixes i average somewhere between 11 and 14 tracks an hour
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
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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.
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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..
no alcohol, no energy drinks since last september. water and juice is where it’s at 
That video. What the absolute FvCk
Hahaha that video