If you’ve ever listened to The Edge Breakfast show and heard Dan Webby absolutely nail a singalong moment (or, sometimes, absolutely butcher it), chances are you’ve caught their segment 'Hit the Spot', one of the most simple-yet-chaotic bits to ever grace the airwaves.
The idea? A song starts playing. Dan starts singing along. Clint then drops the music out, and Dan has to keep singing in time with the track, relying entirely on his internal metronome and vibes alone. Clint then cranks the music back up at the peak of the song, and we all find out if he hit the beat, or if it’s a complete trainwreck.
When he gets it right? It’s genuinely surreal. The whole team reacts like NASA during a successful space shuttle launch, the mics peak, and the comments blow up with people saying, “This is my favourite segment ever!”.
But when he’s off…unfortunately, it’s pure secondhand embarrassment.
And it turns out we’re not the only ones obsessed.
A Dutch radio station called Qmusic, based in the Netherlands, gave the segment a go after seeing it online. Their breakfast team put one of their own hosts to the test with the same rules: start singing, lose the music, then see if they can land back on beat.
If you don’t speak Dutch, you won’t understand exactly what they’re saying, but you’ll definitely still get the vibe. You can watch their version here and judge for yourself.
Is it the simplest radio game ever? Probably. Do we love it with our whole hearts? Absolutely.
