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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

Title

Popularity

First heard

Last heard

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

1972-10-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days30.07%

6months160.05%

12months380.06%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

2013-11-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months140.05%

12months260.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Morten Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium

2006-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months130.04%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Habanera

1999-10-19

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months130.04%

12months230.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau

2011-06-28

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months130.04%

12months250.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Maurice Ravel - Alborada del gracioso

1994

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months130.04%

12months240.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Edward Elgar - Salut d'amour

2015-09-18

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months120.04%

12months190.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

James MacMillan - O Radiant Dawn

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months110.04%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months190.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

1959

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months110.04%

12months230.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves

1972-10-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

2017-09-08

Popularity:

7days20.17%

28days30.07%

6months100.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Espana

2021-11-15

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings

2010-01-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months100.03%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow

1993-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months210.04%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

John Tavener - The Lamb

2019-08-09

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months100.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Franz Liszt - La Campanella

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months130.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 16 days ago

Bedrich Smetana - The Bartered Bride (Overture)

2012-09-11

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months100.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Hugo Alfvén - Shepherd Girl's dance (The Mountain king)

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 hours ago

Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow

2020-09-25

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

2022-10-14

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Percy Grainger - Handel in the Strand

2006-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months90.03%

12months200.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 hours ago

Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino (Overture)

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Trad. - I Saw Three Ships

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months90.03%

12months90.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Francisco Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra

2022-10-22

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months200.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

George Frideric Handel - Zadok the priest HWV.258

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 22 days ago

Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium

2006-01-05

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia

2005-08-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Ronald Binge - Sailing By

1994-07-11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Camille Saint‐Saëns - Wedding-cake Op.76

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps (Overture)

1991-05-27

Popularity:

7days20.17%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel

2010-03-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Meredith Monk - Ellis Island

2014-03-21

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

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

2011-04-12

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 3 months ago

Claudio Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna

2009-01-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 25 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia, Op 26

2001-09-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months200.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Wonderful Town (Overture)

2018-02-09

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Gustav Holst - In the bleak midwinter

2021-10-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months80.01%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 months ago

Jean Sibelius - Andante Festivo

2003-09-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Eric Whitacre - Sleep

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Peter Maxwell Davies - Farewell to Stromness

2006-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Claude Debussy - Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

2018-07-27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Antonín Dvořák - Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Percy Grainger - Molly on the shore

2012-03-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 23 days ago

Maurice Ravel - La Valse

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

2011-04-12

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months200.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Ola Gjeilo - Northern Lights

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 2 months ago

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka - Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

1990-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

2004-10-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months70.02%

12months160.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Franz Schubert - Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

Total: 1,000

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