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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%

28days20.04%

6months150.05%

12months310.05%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 3 days ago

Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow

2020-09-25

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days30.07%

6months130.04%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Alborada del gracioso

1994

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months130.04%

12months240.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

2013-11-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months130.04%

12months280.05%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Habanera

1999-10-19

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months120.04%

12months220.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Francisco Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra

2022-10-22

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days30.07%

6months120.04%

12months210.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Edward Elgar - Salut d'amour

2015-09-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months120.04%

12months210.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

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

2011-04-12

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months180.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Emmanuel Chabrier - Espana

2021-11-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months180.03%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Percy Grainger - Molly on the shore

2012-03-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months110.04%

12months190.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 8 days ago

Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium

2006-01-05

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months110.04%

12months160.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 4 days ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves

1972-10-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months110.04%

12months190.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Frederick Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

2012-03-05

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months110.04%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Wonderful Town (Overture)

2018-02-09

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months100.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 12 days ago

Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

2022-10-14

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months100.03%

12months190.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 21 days ago

Astor Piazzolla - Libertango

2010-06-02

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months100.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 15 days ago

Bedrich Smetana - The Bartered Bride (Overture)

2012-09-11

Popularity:

7days00%

28days30.07%

6months100.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia

2005-08-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months90.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau

2011-06-28

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days40.09%

6months90.03%

12months230.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Morten Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium

2006-01-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months90.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 6 days ago

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

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months90.03%

12months120.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps (Overture)

1991-05-27

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months120.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 10 days ago

Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps

1999-07-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 14 days ago

Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days30.07%

6months90.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Thomas Tallis - If ye love me

1988-09-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow

1993-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months90.03%

12months190.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

1976-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Leonard Bernstein - Candide (Overture)

1960

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months90.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Vittorio Monti - Czardas

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months90.03%

12months120.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

1959

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months230.04%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Peteris Vasks - The Fruit of Silence

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days40.09%

6months80.03%

12months80.01%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 2 days ago

Anon. - Sumer is Icumen in

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months100.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia, Op 26

2001-09-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months190.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Judith Weir - Still, Glowing

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months110.02%

First heard 2 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Claude Debussy - Tarantelle styrienne

2024-07-30

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 11 days ago

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel

2010-03-02

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 7 days ago

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

2025-04-04

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

Jean Sibelius - Andante Festivo

2003-09-01

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months180.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Maurice Ravel - La Valse

2016-01-15

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

2010-04-14

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 13 days ago

Florence Price - Adoration

2023-04-14

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 5 days ago

Franz Liszt - La Campanella

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 24 days ago

Eric Whitacre - Sleep

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months170.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 19 days ago

Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

2024-08-26

Popularity:

7days00%

28days20.04%

6months80.03%

12months130.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 9 days ago

John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

2004-10-17

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months160.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 17 days ago

Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino (Overture)

1997-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days10.02%

6months80.03%

12months140.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 18 days ago

Lili Boulanger - Nocturne

2010-01-01

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months80.03%

12months120.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man

1960

Popularity:

7days10.09%

28days20.04%

6months70.02%

12months120.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard 5 hours ago

Carl Maria von Weber - Invitation to the Dance

1986-01-01

Popularity:

7days20.18%

28days30.07%

6months70.02%

12months150.03%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a day ago

John Tavener - Song for Athene

2019-01-18

Popularity:

7days00%

28days00%

6months70.02%

12months110.02%

First heard 3 years ago

Last heard a month ago

Total: 1,000

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