Average number of songs per episode: 3. Most of the music featured is light, popular fare, in line with the overall light tone of the episodes, and there is an emphasis on tracks that were hit singles. 222 Top 40 stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Least songs used in an episode: 1 - " Golden Triangle (Part I)".
Most songs used in an episode (one-hour): 6 - " Rites of Passage".
Most songs used in an episode (two-hour): 9 - " Brother's Keeper".
Several songs are performed 'live' by a house band covering another musician's work season 1 would be the only season where this occurs, as later it became common practice for the original artist to make a guest live appearance.
Brian Ray's " Today's a Beginning" was written exclusively for season 1 of the show.
The season also features a large number of Latin salsa, mambo and merengue tracks, highlighting the diverse cultural makeup of Miami. Most of the music featured is light, popular fare, in line with the overall light tone of the episodes, and there is an emphasis on tracks that were hit singles at the time - in contrast to later seasons, where much of the music featured would be more obscure. Season 1 of Miami Vice introduced the show's trademark style of highlighting important scenes with music, and featured 75 songs during the course of its 22 episodes. At the zany, coffee-fueled Secret Shopper meeting that opens Special Sauce, Annie screams at their shoppers about making sure to keep their receipts it ends with everyone chanting RECEIPTS.