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=== Requestival === {{See also|Super Request}} Broadcast annually from 2020 until 2022, Triple J held Requestival, where they only played listeners' song requests for five days straight.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jenke|first=Tyler|date=19 May 2020|title=Triple J are Opening the Request Line for Their First Ever 'Requestival'|url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/triple-j-requestival-11272/|access-date=10 November 2024|website=Rolling Stone Australia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Giuffre |first=Liz |date=2021-02-01 |title=Bluey, Requestival, Play School and ME@Home: the ABC (Kids) of communication cultures during lockdown |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1329878X20952520 |journal=Media International Australia |language=en |volume=178 |issue=1 |pages=63β76 |doi=10.1177/1329878X20952520 |issn=1329-878X |pmc=8280551}}</ref> Significant airtime was given to songs and artists that would never usually be played on the station, including "[[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 5]]" by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], "[[Shake It Off]]" by [[Taylor Swift]] (which was notably banned from the [[Triple J Hottest 100#2015: #Tay4Hottest100|2014 Hottest 100]]), "[[Rasputin (song)|Rasputin]]" by [[Boney M.]], the theme songs to TV programs ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]'' and ''[[The Saddle Club|Saddle Club]],'' the entirety of [[Julia Gillard's misogyny speech]], and the [[Geelong Football Club|Geelong Cats]] club song, "We Are Geelong".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Langford|first=Jackson|date=3 June 2020|title=The Most Batshit Songs Played During Triple J's 'Requestival'|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/the-most-batshit-songs-played-during-triple-js-requestival/|access-date=10 November 2024|website=Music Feeds}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Langford|first=Jackson|date=11 May 2021|title=Hereβs How Triple J Kicked Off Requestival 2021|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/heres-how-triple-j-kicked-off-requestival-2021/|access-date=10 November 2024|website=Music Feeds}}</ref> In 2021, more than 80,000 song requests were submitted by listeners.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Boland|first=Bray|date=19 September 2022|title=Triple J's Requestival returns|url=https://radiotoday.com.au/triple-js-requestival-returns/|access-date=10 November 2024|website=Radio Today}}</ref> The event was similar in concept to ''[[Super Request]],'' a nightly music request show that aired from 1998 to 2001.
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