Venus (SiriusXM)

Venus is a Sirius XM Radio station playing rhythmic pop from the 2000s through today.

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Sirius XM initially described the channel as follows:

The biggest hits of today, the hottest hits of tomorrow, and the coolest new music.

Venus is a Rhythmic Top 40 station with an emphasis on current-based Rhythmic Pop/Dance hits from the 2000s and today with recurrents from the 2000s, all commercial-free.^[1] The channel replaces Top 20 on 20, which officially signed off on July 16, 2014 at 12:04 AM after 14 years. The first song to be played on Venus was "My Humps" by The Black Eyed Peas.^[2] With the launch of Venus, the move gave Sirius XM two channels with a Rhythmic-focused format, joining The Heat, whose direction favors current-based R&B/Hip-Hop hits.

With the addition of Pitbull's Globalization Radio, which was launched in 2015, Venus shifted to Rhythmic Pop and some Hip Hop from the past two decades, allowing Globalization Radio to take on the current Rhythmic/Dance fare.

In 2019, with the addition of Pandora Now to channel 3, Venus moved to channel 303. The playlist primarily spans of rhythmic leaning pop and hip hop hits from the mid-2000s to presents, a formula similar to its sister station The Pulse on channel 15, as well as Hits 1 on channel 2, which plays top 40 pop and rhythmic hits. Artists commonly heard on Venus include Olivia Rodrigo, Lady Gaga, Post Malone, Dua Lipa, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, and Halsey.

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• Sirius XM/Venus