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“When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's” by The Police
“When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's” by The Police appears on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2007 and 2014. Its best result is #1688 on the CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,371 alternative song of all time.
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Sting wrote "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around", and the Police put it on Zenyatta Mondatta in 1980 with Nigel Gray producing. The title does most of the talking, a shrug of a slogan for the end times, and the groove found an unlikely home on the dance floor: paired with "Voices Inside My Head", it climbed to No. 3 on Billboard's disco chart in early 1981.
Radio treats it as the second half of a set, often spinning it straight after "Driven to Tears". The clubs came calling again in 2000, when a remix billed as Different Gear versus the Police went to No. 28 in the UK and No. 7 on Billboard's dance club chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1716 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1688 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1701 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1739 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1813 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1844 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1854 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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