These are your favourite songs…
Following on from the UNCUT readers’ poll that we posted earlier in the month, (07.02.08 NEWS: UNCUT READERS CHOOSE THEIR OWN BOWIE TOP TEN) we thought it would be interesting to contrast their choices against those of the mass market
Here’s how they stand right now…
Current US iTunes Top 20 Bowie
01 Under Pressure 3:57 – David Bowie & Queen – Best of Bowie
02 Let’s Dance 4:10 – Best of Bowie
03 Space Oddity 5:15 – Best of Bowie
04 Changes 3:35 – Best of Bowie
05 Modern Love 4:47 – Best of Bowie
06 Fame 4:17 – Best of Bowie
07 Rebel Rebel 4:31 – Best of Bowie
08 Suffragette City 3:27 – Best of Bowie
09 Ziggy Stardust 3:15 – Best of Bowie
10 Young Americans 3:15 – Best of Bowie
11 Golden Years 3:29 – Best of Bowie
12 China Girl 4:18 – Best of Bowie
13 “Heroes” 6:10 – “Heroes”
14 China Girl 5:32 – Let’s Dance
15 Space Oddity 5:16 – Space Oddity
16 “Heroes” 3:37 – Best of Bowie
17 Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy 4:24 – Bing Crosby & David Bowie – Bing Crosby: Christmas Classics
18 Changes 3:23 – Butterfly Boucher & David Bowie – Shrek 2 Soundtrack
19 Dancing In The Street 3:22 – David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Best of Bowie
20 Changes 3:34 – Hunky Dory
Current UK iTunes Top 20 Bowie
01 Life On Mars? 3:50 – Best of Bowie
02 Starman 4:13 – Best of Bowie
03 Space Oddity 5:14 – Best of Bowie
04 Ashes to Ashes 4:24 – Scary Monsters
05 Under Pressure 3:57 – Best of Bowie
06 Let’s Dance (Single Version) 4:09 – Best of Bowie
07 “Heroes” 6:08 – “Heroes”
08 Changes 3:34 – Best of Bowie
09 Under Pressure 3:56 – Queen & David Bowie – Queen’s Greatest Hits II
10 “Heroes” (Single Version) 3:37 – Best of Bowie
11 Let’s Dance 4:10 – The Singles Collection
12 Rebel Rebel 4:29 – Best of Bowie
13 The Jean Genie 4:06 – Best of Bowie
14 Medley: Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy 4:24 – Bing Crosby & David Bowie – Bing Crosby: Christmas Classics
15 Life On Mars? 3:49 – Hunky Dory
16 Life On Mars? (Live at Fashion Rocks) 4:54 – Arcade Fire & David Bowie – Live EP (Live at Fashion Rocks)
17 China Girl (Single Version) 4:17 – Best of Bowie
18 Ziggy Stardust 3:13 – Best of Bowie
19 The Man Who Sold the World 3:59 – Best of Bowie
20 Queen Bitch 3:13 – Hunky Dory
And for comparison, here’s that UNCUT readers’ poll again…
01 Life On Mars?
02 Five Years
03 Moonage Daydream
04 Station To Station
05 Quicksand
06 Rock ?N? Roll Suicide
07 “Heroes”
08 Lady Grinning Soul
09 Cygnet Committee
10 Queen Bitch
As you can see, Life On Mars? tops both the UNCUT and UK iTunes Top 20, but doesn’t appear in the USA iTunes Top 20 at all. It actually appears three times in the UK top 20!
The only other songs that appear in both the UNCUT and UK iTunes Top 20 are “Heroes” and Queen Bitch with the former being the only song to appear in both the UNCUT and US iTunes Top 20.
These ten songs are common to both the US and the UK iTunes Top 20s in alphabetical order…
01 Changes
02 China Girl
03 “Heroes” (Album Version)
04 “Heroes” (Single Version)
05 Let’s Dance
06 Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
07 Rebel Rebel
08 Space Oddity
09 Under Pressure
10 Ziggy Stardust
It’s easy to understand why both length versions of “Heroes” might be so popular, but I have to admit that seeing Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy in there was a bit of a shock, even if it did reach #3 in the UK.
Also, it seems that people consider Under Pressure to be more a Bowie song than a Queen song, as it has sold many more as a download from Best Of Bowie than it has from Queen’s Greatest Hits II.
We’ll probably take another look in six months or so, these charts are very slow moving with only small adjustments from week to week.