Song · Elbow
“One Day Like This” by Elbow
From the album The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
“One Day Like This” by Elbow appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2008 on the album The Seldom Seen Kid. Its best result is #3 on the BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,677 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Elbow only wrote "One Day Like This" because they were asked to: David Joseph of Universal Music wanted a radio-friendly single for The Seldom Seen Kid, their fourth album, and the band knocked it out in about two weeks. It went out as the record's second single on 2 June 2008, on a CD and a pair of 7-inch records. Guy Garvey had been carrying the chorus line around in his diary for years, and Craig Potter produced and mixed, with Ian Burdge's cello, Prabjote Osahn's violin and Stella Page's viola swelling around him and Angela Thwaite and Louise Turner joining the string players on backing vocals.
It won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 2009, and after it featured in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics it climbed to No. 4 in the UK, the band's highest chart placing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 750 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2013 | 3 | BBC Radio 6 Music | BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years | 100 |
| 2022 | 251 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2022 | 384 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2024 | 457 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 736 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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