Which bar is that? I’m not one for top40, but I might drop by if I’m in the area 
Also I guess scouting the location and asking the current Guy for some tips may not be an option (if they even have one at the moment).
Whatever remixing your doing,
I’d have a dirty version of the the originals on hand. I don’t live in Paris, but when people wanna here songs around here it better be the god damn original, i’m telling you. haha.
10 to 5 is a while.
Id have a set early in the night that would have most of the songs straight up and when everyone gets good and going throw of the remixs.
I think its cool to replay top 40’s every 3 hours if thats what they ask for.
It’s called “Le Dock” and is near Opéra.
They have a few DJs, don’t know how many. Like I said, I’m not usually up for DJing that kind of night, but am feeling like a change and it seems quite funny there.
Have to force myself into cheesy top 40 mode though, it’s hard hard hard. I can do it, I can do it.
I usually alternate between more electro based poppy stuff and some electro stuff that I like but is similar in style to some of the poppy stuff. For example, Blowin Up - Gigi Barocco, or the Bodybangers 2k remix of What is Love, stuff like that. I usually have about a 70-30 balance of pop to electro at the start (more pop while the night is young and people haven’t warmed up yet) and then go about 40-60 towards the end.
And by “pop” I mainly mean the 4 on the floor pop stuff coming out these days (ie david guetta, benny benassi, even afrojack has some pop stuff) or electro remixes of them.
Good luck!
Do you belong to a record/mp3 pool?
Secret to top 40’s DJing: find remixes to the songs, apply Fatman Scoop liberally, drop everything on the one, make sure to do tons of shoutouts to hype the crowd up 
Seriously though if it’s just a job to you and not something where you are looking to get overly artistic and creative just go over to crooklyn clan and check out some of the remixes, transitions, intros, etc… they got over there. I mean, you’ll sound like every other top40’s DJ…but every top40’s DJ sounds the same to everyone on the floor dancing anyway. They just want to hear the same shit they’ve been hearing on the radio, which i’m not hating on at all, just something to remember. Actually dutch house remixes of songs seem to be really popular right now.They’re really high energy and has a good swing so it gets people dancing.
Ive djed at many 18ths for my friends, and so they want just the club bangers and top 40, but heres the stuff that gets them all going..
Barbara streisland
LMFAO - party rock anthem
mann - buzzin
commander - kelly rowland + guetta
get shaky - ian cary project
gold digger - kanye west
put your hands up for detroit
beautiful people - chris brown
yeah 3x - chris brown
on the floor - jennifer lopez
take over control - afrojack
save the world - SHM
one - SHM
kickstarts - example
wont go quietly - example
forget you - cee lo green
we speak no americano
let the bass kick in miami - lmfao
like a g6
miami 2 ibiza - SHM
pon de floor - major lazer
flo rida - get low
alors en danse - stromae
day n nite - kid cudi (crookers)
yeah yeah - bodyrox
riverside - sidney samson
ghosts n stuff - rob swire
bonkers
zombie nation
in da club - 50 cent
show me love
be faithful
jump around
im not alone - calvin harris
dirty talk - wynter gordon
bounce - calvin harris
satisfaction
one more time
louder - dj fresh
gold dust - dj fresh
i bet that you look good on the dancefloor - arctic monkeys
mr brightside - killers
niave - kooks
shut up and drive - rhianna
dancing in the mooonlight - toploader
heaven is a halfpipe - OPM
yeah - usher
all the small things - blink182
teenage dirt bag - wheatus
good times - roll deep
in too deep - sum 41
sandstorm
only girl in the world - rhianna
let the sun shine - labrinth
kids - mgmt
s&m - rhianna
dynamite - taio cruz
i need air - magnetic man
katy on a mission - katy b
stereo love - edward maya
frisky - tinie tempa
written in the stars - tinie tempa
hot - inna
memories - guetta
slam - pendulum
flashback - calvin harris
sex on fire - kings of leon
infinity 2008 - guru josh
insomnia
i gotta feeling - black eyed peas
Ok thats almost most of my ‘18th/top 40’ playlist so enjoy 
EDIT: and if your ‘only’ doing 4 hours.. that should be enough!
+1
When faced with requests for “Top 40” that last longer than an hour (or so)…I look to the Billboard Top 100 list…and a couple other lists they keep.
There are a lot of ways to find more than 40 “Top 40” style songs. Look at the Top 100 list, and find songs that are climbing fast, but not yet in the Top 40. Look at the Top 40 charts for the last year (or so) and find good songs that were on the list, but have fallen off. Look for the “next” single from artists that are on the current Top 40.
What I would specifically avoid are remixes and mashups of Top 40 songs. That is NOT what the crowd at a “Top 40” club wants to hear.
I DJ in a top 40 bar every week, heres some tips that work for me and the crowd:
- Get extended club mixes, essentially the radio edit with an intro and outro so you can mix easier.
- Try to play 3-5 songs of a genre and rotate through, eg, hip hop, pop, dance, rock and repeat (depending on the crowd there is lots of room to manover, this just gives you a guide)
- Check out the top 40 chart of the country you are playing in, as well as the American and BBC 1 radio playlists
- If possible some charts let you look at what was in the top 40 in weeks prior sometimes up to years, sometimes I will just pick a year, say 2007, and play a whole lot of songs that were popular then. People most likely would not have heard them in a while and will enjoy hearing them again.
- Get ready for requests, you will get them a lot in a top 40 bar
There are some tips, hope they help and you rock the place
You are the man!
Thanks to everyone for your help, it’s been a while since I’ve top 40ed it.
PS. No I don’t belong to a record pool.
Yeah i agree totally.
But this one seems to work really well… im fact they go nuts for this shit.
Eh I mean it depends on the type of remix and where you are playing. I’ve never DJed at but I’ve been to Top-40’s clubs and while they don’t play a lot of remixes they will play club-remixes to songs (typically full lyrics intact, britney spears till the world end comes to mind) but they’ll also play some interesting mixes that are higher energy than the original song. Crooklyn Clan is a club staple and they have tons of remixes, mashes, and partybreaks which people love. I’m just really confused by this statement.
had me headbanging and I hate big headed rihanna
Fair enough.
The “radio edit” of songs seems to be generally accepted in my area. The “EDM” remixes are not generally accepted in my area.
I will create my own edits of songs to extend intros or make outros to enable better mixing…but slams are the Top 40 DJs BFF for mixing between songs.
There are occasional “cute” mashups that catch on and become popular…but they tend to have the shelf life of a banana. It would be really hard to go back 2 or 3 years and dust off one of these cute remixes and play it.
Also look up anything from
DJs from mars
DJ Earworm
Liam Keegan
erm, theres more but thats off the top of my head
Where i got around 80% of my top40 tracks
I do see your point.
Question:
I am preparing for a friends party. Need to play some party hip-hop but none of the new hip-hop coming out seems dance friendly. I never play hip-hop really but I like some older stuff. I was thinking of going back to some “classics” like Juicy and Party Up. Juicy is probably old enough to go well and Party Up is from 1999 which is still (relatively) old in comparison. I don’t know if I really want to play stuff from '08-'09 and early 2010 (Songs like “all I do is win”, “make it rain” etc…) because I think it’s recent enough that people will think you have simply failed to update your playlist. Most of my top-40’s stuff is of the dancy electronic variety and the rest is (at least for the party playlist) is more poppy type EDM.
Anyway, can you recommend some newer hip-hop that has the energy of a song like DMX’s “party up” that sounds sufficiently different from current dance/electronic music? Or could I get away playing the old bangers from a few years ago? I have a lot of the chris brown stuff. I hate lil’ Wayne and Drake but I’ll probably end up playing that stuff.
i dislike top40 at times because it gets so damn repetitive. but it can be fun sometimes with the right crowd. on another note, some of the club bangers these days are from drake, lil wayne, chris brown, busta rhymes, twista, trey songz, usher, travis porter, waka flocka flame, wiz khalifa, big sean, 50 cent, fabolous, pitbull, jamie foxx, rick ross, nicki minage, eminem, black eyed peas, far east movement, flo rida, kanye west and others that aren’t popping into my head. you should find a lot of songs from them and you can just play the classic club bangers in between them like ying yang twins, lil jon, juvenile, ludacris, snoop dogg, etc.
if you know a way i can copy the tracklist in my itunes then i would send it to you. i got quite a bit of top 40.
Go to iTunes. Look at the list of top singles right now. ??? Profit.
Np (:
I’ve got more if you do need them just pm me
Great additions here. Mucho apreciado.
You can select all in your itunes playlist, copy, then paste somewhere else, zip the file then upload to sendspace.com
But otherwise, if this seems like a lot, don’t worry I can get all these tunes myself…thanks a load