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Rock radio countdowns from the United Kingdom

RockLists has 50 countdowns from 4 stations in the United Kingdom. Combining all of them, the song United Kingdom listeners voted for most is “Teenage Kicks” by The Undertones, which appears on 10 countdowns.

Stations in United Kingdom

Top 50 songs voted by United Kingdom listeners

Combined points across every countdown from the United Kingdom that counts toward the rankings, all formats together.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Year
1	Teenage Kicks The Undertones	833	10	#2	–	–
2	Common People Pulp	619	8	#1	1	1995
3	Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division	618	8	#3	–	2005
4	Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin	614	7	#1	2	–
5	Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols	592	6	#1	4	–
6	Going Underground The Jam	587	8	#13	–	–
7	White Man In Hammersmith Palais The Clash	532	6	#3	–	–
8	Complete Control The Clash	515	7	#2	–	1977
9	Layla Derek and the Dominos	502	6	#2	–	–
10	Blue Monday New Order	490	6	#1	1	1983
11	Wonderwall Oasis	488	5	#1	1	1995
12	Everybody Hurts R.E.M.	480	5	#1	1	1993
13	Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis	476	5	#1	1	1996
14	Hey Jude The Beatles	467	5	#2	–	–
15	Down in the Tube Station at Midnight The Jam	466	8	#4	–	–
16	Trouble Coldplay	454	5	#1	1	2001
17	Town Called Malice The Jam	445	5	#7	–	1982
18	All Right Now Free	443	5	#6	–	–
19	Creep Radiohead	430	6	#2	–	1993
20	New Rose The Damned	422	6	#8	–	–
21	Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash	412	5	#26	–	1982
22	Babylon David Gray	412	5	#5	–	2001
23	Ghost Town The Specials	408	6	#21	–	1981
24	This Charming Man The Smiths	399	6	#2	–	1983
25	Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones	399	5	#13	–	–
26	Strawberry Fields Forever The Beatles	398	5	#17	–	–
27	Holidays In The Sun The Sex Pistols	398	6	#11	–	1977
28	One U2	397	4	#2	–	1992
29	Atmosphere Joy Division	396	4	#1	2	–
30	Bohemian Rhapsody Queen	396	4	#2	–	–
31	Imagine John Lennon	396	4	#1	2	–
32	No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley	395	5	#17	–	–
33	Alternative Ulster Stiff Little Fingers	394	5	#6	–	–
34	Come On Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners	390	5	#19	–	1982
35	Maggie May Rod Stewart	386	5	#16	–	–
36	Every Breath You Take The Police	386	4	#8	–	1983
37	Losing My Religion R.E.M.	384	4	#13	–	1991
38	Why Does It Always Rain on Me? Travis	384	5	#1	1	2000
39	Let It Be The Beatles	381	4	#3	–	–
40	Hotel California The Eagles	381	4	#9	–	–
41	Beautiful Day U2	380	5	#3	–	2000
42	Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan	380	5	#10	–	–
43	I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones	379	4	#6	–	–
44	Pride (In the Name of Love) U2	377	4	#14	–	1984
45	Space Oddity David Bowie	377	4	#14	–	–
46	Yesterday The Beatles	374	4	#12	–	–
47	Born to Run Bruce Springsteen	373	5	#23	–	–
48	Another Brick in the Wall Pink Floyd	371	4	#20	–	1980
49	Sit Down James	371	5	#8	–	1991
50	Yellow Coldplay	370	4	#13	–	2001

Artists from United Kingdom

1,039 charting artists in the archive come from the United Kingdom (per MusicBrainz). The biggest, by countdown results everywhere:

1Led ZeppelinLondon96 songs
2The Rolling StonesLondon131 songs
3The BeatlesLiverpool177 songs
4The CureCrawley, England98 songs
5The WhoLondon61 songs
6The ClashLondon, England66 songs
7Depeche ModeBasildon, England76 songs
8QueenLondon45 songs
9The PoliceLondon, England49 songs
10RadioheadAbingdon, England67 songs
11ColdplayLondon, England56 songs
12Def LeppardSheffield32 songs
13The SmithsManchester, England49 songs
14Fleetwood MacLondon45 songs
15New OrderManchester, England45 songs
16Ozzy OsbourneAston49 songs
17Peter GabrielCobham42 songs
18MuseTeignmouth, England46 songs
19BushLondon, England30 songs
20OasisManchester, England39 songs
21Elton JohnPinner48 songs
22Bad CompanyLondon22 songs
23Black SabbathBirmingham33 songs
24The PretendersHereford, England42 songs
25Elvis Costello & the AttractionsCalifornia45 songs
26Dire StraitsDeptford25 songs
27Billy IdolStanmore28 songs
28Mumford & SonsLondon31 songs
29Eric ClaptonRipley48 songs
30Deep PurpleHertford16 songs