I was a bit bored recently so I decided to look on how often "Tattoo" is being played on the radio here in
. I´ve chosen 24 radio channels (9 ARD Pop channels + 15 commercial radio stations) and looked from
July 10th until July 16th in their playlists. I also compared it with Rosa Linns "Snap" to see how popular it still is more than a year after Turin.
Let´s start with the pop channels who were part of the selection process in 2022.
NDR 2 - Tattoo 0x, Snap 13x
WDR 2 - Tattoo 0x, Snap 4x
Bremen Vier - Tattoo 0x, Snap 9x
Antenne Brandenburg - Tattoo 1x Snap 2x
SR1 - Tattoo 14x, Snap 5x
MDR Jump - Tattoo 14x, Snap 13x
hr3 - Tattoo 0x, Snap 12x
SWR 3 - Tattoo 0x, Snap 10x
Bayern 3 - Tattoo 0x, Snap 16x
As you can see most of these channels either don´t or just rarely play "Tattoo", with the exceptions of MDR Jump and SR1. Interestingly NDR 2, the Pop radio of the broadcaster who´s responsbile for the ESC here in
didn´t play the song a single time last week after being very supportive at the beginning whereas MDR Jump who almost completely ignored "Tattoo" at the beginning now almost plays it in hot rotation.
But what about the commercial radios?? Are they more supportive of Loreen?? I´ve chosen the most listened radio stations.
Antenne Bayern (Bavaria) - Tattoo 12x, Snap 11x
Radio Regenbogen (Baden-Württemberg) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 16x
RPR1 (Rhineland-Palatinate) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 5x
Hitradio FFH (Hesse) - Tattoo 1x, Snap 9x
Radio Salü (Saarland) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 40x
Antenne Thüringen (Thuringia) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 14x
Radio PSR (Saxony) - Tattoo 16x, Snap 2x
Radio SAW (Saxony-Anhalt) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 12x
BB Radio (Brandenburg) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 11x
Ostseewelle (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 14x
radio ffn (Lower Saxony) - Tattoo 0x, Snap 35x
Radio Hamburg - Tattoo 0x, Snap 3x
R.SH (Schleswig-Holstein) - Tattoo 3x, Snap 16x
104.6 RTL (Berlin) - Tattoo 30x, Snap 29x
94,3 rs2 (Berlin) - Tattoo 45x, Snap 11x
As you can see with a few exceptions most of the commercial stations tend to ignore "Tattoo" as well, only a few really play it, some of them even very excessivly (Berlin). On the other side "Snap" is still played very often, no matter what kind of channel it is.