Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-

What annoys me is that seemingly 99% of LBP stations these days are all
playing dance music, as are Radio 1 and even the local commercials here
at weekends.

This has always been the way. I remember it from the soul shows on Capital. I've never understood why dance or party music is played on Friday / Saturday nights on the radio. I don't see the correlation with going out – unless maybe people only listen to dancey stuff when they are getting ready to head for a dancey-stuff playing club.

It's as mad as when it's footie season all the kids play footie in the street, yet when it's cricket season they all play cricket.

(See what I did there? I used the word 'footie'. This is part of me becoming more and more Scouse ahead of me replacing Pete Price, see.)

Apart from a few notable exceptions (nods to WNKR and Enigma) it seems
that MAR is the only LBP playing music that isn't already catered for
legally.

The problem really is understanding the vast 'genre' differentials within what outsiders refer to as 'dance' music. Most legal stations on a Friday / Saturday night only pander to the commercial house brigade. That's the music typically played in the various meat markets that the orange coloured tarts go out to at weekends and try to balance on their stilettos to.

(See what I did there? Yep, made it about Liverpool. I'm on a roll with this blending into the scene here. Pete Price's days are so numbered.)

Yet, there's mega following for more specialist dance genres, which is why in London there are Grime stations, RnB stations, Rap stations, Garage stations, bla bla bla, not to mention huge non-meat market venues heaving to the relevant sounds at the weekend. So, people into these genres want their music 24/7 I guess, just as Country anoraks do.
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* Christopher England just said that *