Television

[ClaireStan]

How do soaps such as Eastenders, Coronation Street etc  play up to date chart songs in the background of scenes when the episodes are filmed quite away in advance?

[IndieSinger]

They're actually not filmed that far in advance. In fact sometimes, some parts of episodes may only have been filmed a couple of days previous.

[sanfran]

Maybe they add the music after they've filmed it, they add sound effects later - so it could be the same with background music + they can use more recent songs.

[Mattk]

or maybe record labels pay to have their tunes featured ?

[robbieh]

sound effects are sometimes added well after filming takes place, as most of the scenes in the soaps are shot about 2+ months previous

[maria1970]

Usually they are recorded 6 weeks in advance and the music is added to it later.

[georgit79]

I'd go with most of the previous answers. Although filming for the soaps takes place about 4-6 weeks in advance, the music gets put in in the editing process