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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia

2005-08-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months130.04%

12months210.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Francisco Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra

2022-10-22

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months120.04%

12months220.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow

2020-09-25

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months120.04%

12months200.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Alborada del gracioso

1994

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months180.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps

1999-07-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months110.04%

12months200.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau

2011-06-28

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months270.05%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Claude Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

2011-04-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months110.04%

12months210.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

George Walker - Lyric for Strings

2022-10-28

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months180.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel

2010-03-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months110.04%

12months230.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice

1999-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months110.04%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a day ago

Morten Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium

2006-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months110.04%

12months220.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia, Op 26

2001-09-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months100.03%

12months160.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

1972-10-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months100.03%

12months280.05%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

1959

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months100.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Menuet antique

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 10 days ago

John Stanley - Trumpet Voluntary

1983

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months100.03%

12months170.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 9 hours ago

Eric Whitacre - Sleep

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months100.03%

12months180.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow

1993-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months100.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Astor Piazzolla - Libertango

2010-06-02

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Claude Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

2011-04-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

2013-11-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months200.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium

2006-01-05

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months180.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Claude Debussy - Arabesque No.1 in E major

2024-08-07

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Arturo Márquez - Conga del fuego nuevo

2016-02-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Percy Grainger - Molly on the shore

2012-03-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months160.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Gustav Holst - In the bleak midwinter

2021-10-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months90.03%

12months100.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Claude Debussy - En bateau (Petite suite)

2011-05-03

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months140.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Maurice Ravel - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months150.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Erik Satie - Je te veux

2018-04-20

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard a month ago

Hugo Wolf - Italian serenade

1998-10-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months150.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Frederick Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimbas

1998

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months110.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Jasdeep Singh Degun - Abbhā

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months80.01%

First heard a month ago

Last heard a month ago

Lili Boulanger - Nocturne

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Edward Elgar - Salut d'amour

2015-09-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months190.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Peter Maxwell Davies - Farewell to Stromness

2006-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Johannes Brahms - Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem)

2014-04-29

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Gioachino Rossini - The Barber of Seville (Overture)

1961

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Imogen Holst - On Westhall Hill

2024-09-06

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months100.02%

First heard 7 months ago

Last heard a month ago

Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

2017-09-08

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 20 days ago

Maurice Ravel - La Valse

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man

1960

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

1995-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months70.02%

12months160.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

2022-10-14

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months70.02%

12months210.04%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

2007-11-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Scott Joplin - The Entertainer

1999-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months130.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 9 hours ago

John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

2004-10-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months150.03%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Modest Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months90.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Errollyn Wallen - Peace on Earth

2020-10-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months80.01%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Claude Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

1994

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months100.02%

First heard a year ago

Last heard 11 hours ago

Total: 1,000

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