BBC 6Music votes Coldplay’s ‘Clocks’ as best song of last decade


coldplayl4ewide1

Chris Martin, Coldplay (Photo: Live4ever Media)




Coldplay‘s 2003 single ‘Clocks‘ has been voted the greatest song of the last decade by listeners of BBC 6Music.

The station launched the poll to mark ten years on the air, with DJs picking a 100-strong shortlist from which listeners were asked to pick their favourite.

Coldplay finished just ahead of the Arctic Monkeys‘ number one single ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor‘, while Elbow‘s perennial festival anthem ‘One Day Like This‘ placed third.

The National‘s ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio‘, which acted as the lead single for the band’s brilliant 2010 album ‘High Violet‘, is fourth, with The Killers‘ ‘Mr Brightside‘ completing the top 5.

Top 40:

1/ Coldplay – ‘Clocks’
2/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’
3/ Elbow – ‘One Day Like This’
4/ The National – ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’
5/ The Killers – ‘Mr Brightside’
6/ The White Stripes – ‘Seven Nation Army’
7/ The Flaming Lips – ‘Do You Realize?’
8/ Johnny Cash – ‘Hurt’
9/ British Sea Power – ‘Remember Me’
10/ Radiohead – ‘There There’
11/ Muse – ‘Supermassive Black Hole’
12 Arcade Fire – ‘Wake Up’
13/ LCD Soundsystem – ‘All My Friends’
14/ M83 – ‘Midnight City’
15/ Midlake – ‘Roscoe’
16/ Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘No One Knows’
17/ Sigur Ros – ‘Hoppipola’
18/ Morrissey – ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’
19/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Maps’
20/ Bon Iver – ‘Skinny Love’
21/ Richard Hawley – ‘Tonight The Streets Are Ours’
22/ The Libertines – ‘Time For Heroes’
23/ The Walkmen – ‘The Rat’
24/ Lana Del Rey – ‘Video Games’
25/ Amy Winehouse – ‘Rehab’
26/ Florence + the Machine – ‘Kiss With A Fist’
27/ Doves – ‘There Goes The Fear’
28/ Adele – ‘Hometown Glory’
29/ Foo Fighters – ‘All My Life’
30/ Blur – ‘Out Of Time’
31/ Bloc Party – ‘Banquet’
32/ The Maccabees – ‘Love You Better’
33/ Franz Ferdinand – ‘Take Me Out’
34/ Outkast – ‘Hey Ya’
35/ La Roux – ‘In For The Kill’
36/ Alabama Shakes – ‘Hold On’
37/ Oasis – ‘The Importance Of Being Idle’
38/ Mumford & Sons – ‘The Cave’
39/ MGMT – ‘Time To Pretend’
40/ Foster The People – ‘Pumped Up Kicks’


Learn More




One Response

  1. Coldpea 2 February, 2013