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“I'd Love To Change The World” by Ten Years After

From the album A Space in Time (1971)

“I'd Love To Change The World” by Ten Years After appears on 35 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1982 and 2026. It was first released in 1971 on the album A Space in Time. Its best result is #120 on the KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,945 indie & aaa song of all time.

35countdowns
12stations
#120best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1982–2026years charted

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Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World (1971 Original Mix) [Official Audio]

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"I'd Love to Change the World" led the singles off A Space in Time in 1971, and it caught Ten Years After, the British blues-rock band, in a quieter, more troubled frame of mind. Alvin Lee wrote it and sang it over a folky acoustic chord pattern, his voice drifting in echo, until his electric guitar slices in with cool, stinging runs. Chris Wright produced.

The song is a list of everything wrong with the world, one grumble about the state of society after another, until it finally arrives at Vietnam. It scraped into the US Top 40 by the skin of its teeth, the only time the band ever got there, went top ten in Canada, and pulled off something rare for its day: it was all over AM and FM radio alike.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Indie & Adult Alternative

Classic Rock

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1982 120 95.5 KLOS KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) 499
1997 395 104.5 KZEP KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) 500
1997 195 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) 499
2002 443 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) 500
2012 455 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2014 530 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 321 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015) 499
2015 619 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2016 568 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2019 738 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2020 580 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2020 845 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2021 490 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2021) 499
2021 506 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2021 256 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2021) 500
2022 472 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2022) 500
2022 469 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) 500
2022 509 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2022 616 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 180 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2023 476 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 354 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2023) 500
2023 473 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 919 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2023 975 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2023 329 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2024 481 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2024) 500
2024 490 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2024) 498
2024 791 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2025 398 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2025) 500
2025 489 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2025) 498
2025 713 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) 1043
2026 195 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2026) 500
2026 320 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2026) 500
2026 1013 WYEP WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time 1180

Also listed as: I'd Love to Change the World; I'd Like to Change the World; I'd Love To change The World.

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