Zep Hed Posted Saturday at 11:03 AM Share Posted Saturday at 11:03 AM Radio 2 listeners have chosen their best of the best British world-beating groups. The Beatles are today revealed as Radio 2 listeners’ Ultimate British Group Radio 2 listeners have crowned The Beatles their favourite British band taking the No.1 spot in Your Ultimate British Group, with hundreds of thousands of votes cast by music fans. The vote gave listeners the opportunity to pick their five favourite groups to mark the annual all-day musical celebration of National Album Day on Saturday 19 October. In the No.2 spot is Queen, No. 3 is The Rolling Stones, No.4 is Pink Floyd and No.5 is Fleetwood Mac. The full Top 30 chart is below and available exclusively to hear now on BBC Sounds, presented by Mark Goodier, as part of a National Album Day Collection. It will be broadcast on Radio 2 from 1-3pm on Saturday 19 October when all the music played on Radio 2 will be from Great British groups - from Sounds of the 60s with Tony Blackburn (6am-8am) through to Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton (10pm-midnight). An additional show, Your Ultimate British Group: The Extras, is now available in the BBC Sounds collection, which will feature (in no particular order) the bands voted in chart position numbers 30-54. Both shows are BBC Audio productions. A star-studded panel, including Radio 2 presenters, Jo Whiley, Sara Cox, OJ Borg, Vernon Kay, Scott Mills, Trevor Nelson, DJ Spoony, and Owain Wyn Evans voted from a long list of nearly 100 bands to produce a final list of 54, which spans the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s. The list was compiled from the timeless melodic music that is played on Radio 2 and the Most Successful British Groups on the Official Albums Chart. A British group is any band of 2+ members that is made-up wholly or the majority are people who were born, live or hold British citizenship. The chairman of the selection panel is Radio 2 and 6 Music’s Head of Music, Jeff Smith, who is also the chairman of the Mercury Prize judging panel. Jeff Smith, Head of Music for Radio 2 says: “We have absolutely loved seeing the Radio 2 listeners cast hundreds of thousands of votes for their Ultimate British Group, and this Top 30 chart reflects some of music’s biggest selling, most loved and established British artists who have achieved incredible success globally across the decades.” Mark Goodier says: “Radio 2 listeners have chosen their best of the best British world-beating groups. I can’t wait to count down this chart. It promises to be quite a listen!” The chart is: 1. The Beatles 2. Queen 3. The Rolling Stones 4. Pink Floyd 5. Fleetwood Mac 6. Led Zeppelin 7. Take That 8. Coldplay 9. Oasis 10. Electric Light Orchestra 11. The Who 12. Depeche Mode 13. The Jam 14. Radiohead 15. The Smiths 16. Genesis 17. Pet Shop Boys 18. The Cure 19. Duran Duran 20. Madness 21. Girls Aloud 22. The Beautiful South 23. The Kinks 24. Bee Gees 25. Wham! 26. The Clash 27. Blur 28. Spice Girls 29. The Police 30. Manic Street Preachers https://www.nationalalbumday.co.uk/news/the-beatles-revealed-as-bbc-radio-2-listeners-ultimate-british-group/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted Saturday at 04:45 PM Share Posted Saturday at 04:45 PM Imagine the Bonham rage if they had finished lower than Take That or Coldplay. I am surprised The Who did not rank higher and the fact that Coldplay was higher than Radiohead suggests this was voted on by mostly soccer-moms and suburban dorks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zep Hed Posted Saturday at 04:50 PM Author Share Posted Saturday at 04:50 PM The Kinks so low. Outrageous. And The Police. It's apples, oranges and whatever else throwing 50 years of music into the same pot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightsofNi Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM who the hell is Take that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reids Posted Sunday at 08:47 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:47 PM 8 minutes ago, KnightsofNi said: who the hell is Take that? Probably a pop boy band like one direction R😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDave Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago On 10/20/2024 at 4:47 PM, reids said: Probably a pop boy band like one direction R😎 Yes they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago On 10/20/2024 at 1:37 PM, KnightsofNi said: who the hell is Take that? Used in all those treacly Richard Curtis Brit-com movies. That is where Jimmy Page's bête noire, Robbie Williams, comes from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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