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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	All Right Now Free	443	5	#6	–	–
18	Creep Radiohead	430	6	#2	–	1993
19	New Rose The Damned	422	6	#8	–	–
20	Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash	412	5	#26	–	1982
21	Babylon David Gray	412	5	#5	–	2001
22	Ghost Town The Specials	408	6	#21	–	1981
23	This Charming Man The Smiths	399	6	#2	–	1983
24	Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones	399	5	#13	–	–
25	Strawberry Fields Forever The Beatles	398	5	#17	–	–
26	Holidays In The Sun The Sex Pistols	398	6	#11	–	1977
27	One U2	397	4	#2	–	1992
28	Atmosphere Joy Division	396	4	#1	2	–
29	Bohemian Rhapsody Queen	396	4	#2	–	–
30	Imagine John Lennon	396	4	#1	2	–
31	No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley	395	5	#17	–	–
32	Alternative Ulster Stiff Little Fingers	394	5	#6	–	–
33	Come On Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners	390	5	#19	–	1982
34	Maggie May Rod Stewart	386	5	#16	–	–
35	Every Breath You Take The Police	386	4	#8	–	1983
36	Losing My Religion R.E.M.	384	4	#13	–	1991
37	Why Does It Always Rain on Me? Travis	384	5	#1	1	2000
38	Let It Be The Beatles	381	4	#3	–	–
39	Hotel California The Eagles	381	4	#9	–	–
40	Beautiful Day U2	380	5	#3	–	2000
41	Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan	380	5	#10	–	–
42	I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones	379	4	#6	–	–
43	Space Oddity David Bowie	377	4	#14	–	–
44	Yesterday The Beatles	374	4	#12	–	–
45	Born to Run Bruce Springsteen	373	5	#23	–	–
46	Sit Down James	371	5	#8	–	1991
47	Yellow Coldplay	370	4	#13	–	2001
48	Sweet Child o' Mine Guns N Roses	370	4	#3	–	1988
49	It Must Be Love Madness	367	4	#9	–	1983
50	Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison	367	4	#12	–	–

Artists from United Kingdom

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

1The CureCrawley, England94 songs
2Depeche ModeBasildon, England71 songs
3The BeatlesLiverpool126 songs
4The ClashLondon, England62 songs
5The Rolling StonesLondon91 songs
6RadioheadAbingdon, England54 songs
7Led ZeppelinLondon69 songs
8The SmithsManchester, England52 songs
9The PoliceLondon, England43 songs
10New OrderManchester, England46 songs
11OasisManchester, England36 songs
12ColdplayLondon, England37 songs
13Peter GabrielCobham32 songs
14Elvis Costello & the AttractionsCalifornia55 songs
15The PretendersHereford, England35 songs
16MuseTeignmouth, England37 songs
17XTCSwindon35 songs
18BushLondon, England17 songs
19Echo and the BunnymenLiverpool, England25 songs
20QueenLondon26 songs
21Tears for FearsBath, England18 songs
22SqueezeLondon27 songs
23The Psychedelic FursLondon24 songs
24Siouxsie and the BansheesLondon, England40 songs
25The WhoLondon38 songs
26Elvis CostelloPaddington34 songs
27MorrisseyManchester, England39 songs
28Duran DuranBirmingham, England34 songs
29The CultLondon25 songs
30Joy DivisionSalford, England19 songs