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Special countdown · Absolute Radio · August 22, 2025

Absolute Radio 100 Ultimate Britpop Anthems

The countdown (August 22, 2025) from Absolute Radio in United Kingdom (national) ranks 100 songs, with “Common People” by Pulp at number one. The list features 37 different artists; Oasis has the most entries with 18 songs.

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Voted for by Absolute Radio listeners over the course of the station's 2025 Britpop Summer season; Pulp's "Common People" was voted the greatest Britpop song of all time ahead of The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony".

# Song ListsBest
1 Common People Pulp 26 #1
2 Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve 71 #1
3 Parklife Blur 11 #1
4 Live Forever Oasis 43 #4
5 Disco 2000 Pulp 6 #5
6 Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis 56 #1
7 The Day We Caught the Train Ocean Colour Scene 4 #3
8 A Design for Life Manic Street Preachers 9 #2
9 Wonderwall Oasis 104 #1
10 Animal Nitrate Suede 6 #10
11 Song 2 Blur 82 #2
12 Champagne Supernova Oasis 65 #11
13 Alright Supergrass 10 #6
14 Laid James 59 #1
15 The Riverboat Song Ocean Colour Scene 1 #15
16 Girls And Boys Blur 35 #16
17 Chasing Rainbows Shed Seven 1 #17
18 Connection Elastica 43 #4
19 One to Another The Charlatans 3 #19
20 Slide Away Oasis 1 #20
21 Sit Down James 28 #8
22 Sorted For E's and Wizz Pulp 2 #2
23 Born Slippy Underworld 34 #5
24 Slight Return The Bluetones 2 #21
25 Cigarettes and Alcohol Oasis 10 #25
26 Trash Suede 1 #26
27 Country House Blur 8 #7
28 Girl From Mars Ash 3 #4
29 The Bartender and the Thief Stereophonics 3 #1
30 Supersonic Oasis 40 #30
31 Lucky Man The Verve 23 #31
32 Babies Pulp 2 #23
33 The Masterplan Oasis 2 #33
34 Yes Mcalmont and Butler 3 #8
35 Do You Remember The First Time Pulp 3 #13
36 Disco Down Shed Seven 1 #36
37 Road Rage Catatonia 8 #5
38 Beautiful Ones Suede 1 #38
39 Acquiesce Oasis 3 #39
40 Local Boy in The Photograph Stereophonics 1 #40
41 Walkaway Cast 2 #41
42 The Drugs Don't Work The Verve 13 #22
43 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Manic Street Preachers 14 #3
44 Some Might Say Oasis 4 #44
45 A Thousand Trees Stereophonics 1 #45
46 The Universal Blur 2 #46
47 Half the World Away Oasis 7 #7
48 Wide Open Space Mansun 3 #48
49 She Said Longpigs 1 #49
50 Whatever Oasis 8 #2
51 Praise You Fatboy Slim 53 #1
52 Love Spreads The Stone Roses 26 #28
53 Wake Up Boo! The Boo Radleys 1 #53
54 Sandstorm Cast 1 #54
55 Beetlebum Blur 10 #55
56 (What's the Story) Morning Glory Oasis 3 #55
57 Place Your Hands Reef 2 #57
58 Finetime Cast 1 #58
59 Charmless Man Blur 7 #10
60 Goldfinger Ash 4 #60
61 Mis-Shapes Pulp 3 #12
62 She's a Star James 1 #62
63 Columbia Oasis 1 #63
64 Street Spirit (Fade Out) Radiohead 27 #15
65 Nancy Boy Placebo 1 #65
66 Blinded By The Sun Seahorses 1 #66
67 Inbetweener Sleeper 1 #67
68 Sometimes (Lestor Piggott) James 15 #68
69 Sonnet The Verve 20 #8
70 Tomorrow James 1 #70
71 Alright Cast 4 #10
72 A Girl Like You Edwyn Collins 36 #26
73 Say Something James 22 #61
74 Roll With It Oasis 5 #5
75 Hundred Mile High City Ocean Colour Scene 1 #75
76 Pure Morning Placebo 32 #41
77 Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead 63 #28
78 Love Is The Law Seahorses 1 #78
79 Going For Gold Shed Seven 1 #79
80 Sale of The Century Sleeper 1 #80
81 The Changing Man Paul Weller 3 #4
82 Tender Blur 17 #40
83 North Country Boy The Charlatans 1 #83
84 Rock-N-Roll Star Oasis 17 #84
85 You're Gorgeous Babybird 6 #8
86 Stupid Girl Garbage 42 #4
87 Female of the Species Space 17 #33
88 Coffee & TV Blur 10 #8
89 Something For The Weekend Divine Comedy 1 #89
90 Hush Kula Shaker 3 #9
91 Oh Yeah Ash 3 #22
92 Cast No Shadow Oasis 1 #92
93 Bluetonic The Bluetones 2 #15
94 End of a Century Blur 1 #94
95 Just When You're Thinking Things Over The Charlatans 1 #95
96 Ten Storey Love Song The Stone Roses 1 #96
97 Mulder and Scully Catatonia 2 #97
98 Just Radiohead 21 #49
99 What Do You Want From Me? Monaco 8 #42
100 She's Electric Oasis 5 #100

About this countdown

Absolute Radio 100 Ultimate Britpop Anthems was voted by Absolute Radio’s listeners (United Kingdom (national)) in August 22, 2025. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. Because it is a themed or special countdown, it is archived here but not counted in the combined rankings.

Source: Absolute Radio (Hello Rayo), "The 100 Ultimate Britpop Anthems revealed".

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