In 1999 RADIO 2 a Dutch Radio broadcast station started a new initiative, because of the pending Millenium the Dutch via the Internet were invited to vote their all time favorite songs. From the votes a TOP-2000 (how very applicable) List was created and broadcasted from December 26 to December 31.

The initiative became such a success it was repeated the next year, nowadays it is a well established event in Holland. The last year (2006) almost 10 million Dutch enjoyed the List of Lists and more than 12% of the Dutch participated in the voting, over 1.9 million votes! Our beloved neighbours the Belgians copied the initiative, see here, may many countries follow!

This page is a try to setup a Global List weekly updated on every Saturday. You are invited to vote on 10 of your favorite songs from the Song Database, currently containing over 3600 Songs. In case one of your favorite songs is not present just contribute it, in this way the Song Database will grow and grow. You may of course only vote once.

Enough talking for now, move me to the
Voting Page.

The Beta List in all its glory, randomly generated, just to get a glimpse what this is all about.
  The complete list    
Meat Loaf with Paradise by the dashboard light leads the List as best Song All Time.
     All Time Most Popular Artists
Beatles domination with 71 entries. Best song, Hey Jude.
  The Best Years of Pop   
1984 rules with 128 songs. The domination of the 60's, 70's and 80's is remarkable and that is softly speaking.
     Best Decade of Pop
The 70's best period of Pop. It's sad to see the drop during the 90's with only 393 songs and as it is looking now 2000-2009 is heading for an absolute lowpoint. Your job to change all that?
  Artist's Best Songs   
Sorted on most popular Artist.
     Artist's Best Song
Sorted on Alphabet.
  Country Overview   
American & British domination, The Netherlands being a good 3th. No surprise as the origin of the List is a Dutch initiative!
      Country Overview (extended)
Just look at those Brits: 6 songs in the TOP-10 and 10 in the TOP-15. Britannia rules the music waves!
  Duration Overview (1)   
Longest Songs in the List. Total playing time 6 days and 8:54:23. Note the statistic is not accuarte as (too) many songs don't have a duration time yet!
      Duration Overview (2)
3 hours, 11 minutes and 9 seconds Beatles music! We (she) loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah...!
  Duration Overview (3)   
Artists with the longest songs.
  Download TOP5000   
Utilty that creates all kind of statistics from the List and on demand generates HTML. All above listed statistics is generated with this utility.


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