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“Turn” by Travis
“Turn” by Travis appears on 9 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2001 and 2014. Its best result is #178 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,470 alternative song of all time.
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Fran Healy wrote "Turn" for The Man Who, Travis's second album, and it went out in 1999 as the record's fourth single, right after "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Mike Hedges produced, with the sessions split between the Chateau de la Rouge Motte in Normandy and London's Abbey Road Studios. Like the rest of the album, it swaps the band's earlier sound for something softer and more mellow, and its subject is the stubborn way people keep bouncing back, whatever gets thrown at them.
Critics took it to heart, hailing it as a song to unite a crowd and praising how easily it goes down, and it became the band's biggest single up to then, reaching number eight in the UK and number two in Scotland.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 178 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2004 | 307 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2007 | 1277 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1329 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1348 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1381 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1367 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1365 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1418 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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