Following the Gallagher brothers’ return to the big stage together for the first time since 2009, Don’t Look Back In Anger has been revealed as Oasis’s most played track on UK radio and TV in the 21st century, according to new data from music licensing company PPL.
As the band gears up to play a run of homecoming gigs in Manchester this weekend, PPL has crunched the numbers to reveal the top 10 most played Oasis songs, and to show in detail how their music has soundtracked the UK’s airwaves over the last 25 years.
PPL, which licenses the use of recorded music on radio, TV and in public places, has compiled the chart of Oasis’s most played songs in the 21st century using airplay data from radio and TV stations across the UK, which it collects to pay performers and recording rightsholders for the use of their music.
The data shows that Oasis has racked up over seven years of cumulative airplay on UK radio and TV stations since the turn of the century, with their songs being played, on average, 120 times per day across the country.
Don’t Look Back In Anger takes the title of the band’s most played song, closely followed by Wonderwall in second place. She’s Electric, Roll With It and Little By Little complete the top five.
Live Forever, the third single ever released by the band, is the highest-ranking track from their debut album Definitely Maybe and continues to make a mark on radio and TV more than 30 years after release. (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, the band’s seismic second album, dominates the list, providing six of the top ten tracks.