What is the most played song in the last 10 years?

As reported on the BBC, Pharrell Williams' 'Happy' topped the list, followed by Adele's 'Rolling In The Deep' and 'Moves Like Jagger' from Maroon 5 and Christiana Aguilera.

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A new poll has revealed which were the most listened to songs in the UK during the last decade. The poll, compiled by PPL and BBC Radio 2, revealed the top 40 most played songs across radio and television in the UK throughout the 2010s. Other entries in the top ten include Daft Punk and Pharell’s ‘Get Lucky’, Justin Timberlake’s ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling!’ and ‘Uptown Funk’ from Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. Kings of Leon’s ‘Sex On Fire’ completed the top 10 — you can see the list below. The remaining songs on the Top 40 will be revealed by DJ Scott Mills on Radio 2 later today. Peter Leathem, boss of the music licensing company which compiled the chart, said: “The top 40 most-played songs are the sounds that radio producers and broadcasters have consistently played throughout the last decade and will evoke many memories for all of us.” Head of Music at Radio 2, Jeff Smith added the list was “packed with universally loved, sing-along pop hits that really do stand the test of time”.

Most Listened Songs of the 2010s – Top Ten

1. Pharrell Williams, ‘Happy’

3. Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera, ‘Moves Like Jagger’

4. Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rogers, ‘Get Lucky’

5. Justin Timberlake, ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling!’

6. Black Eyed Peas, ‘I Got A Feeling’

7. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars, ‘Uptown Funk’

8. OneRepublic, ‘Counting Stars’

9. CeeLo Green, ‘Forget You’

10. Kings of Leon, ‘Sex On Fire’

Another list, compiled by the Official Charts Company last November, revealed what the best selling songs of the decade were. The number one spot on that list was taken by Ed Sheeran with his song ‘Shape of You’, which spent 14 weeks at the summit in 2017. He took up another three songs in the top ten. Following Sheeran was Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars again with ‘Uptown Funk’, which spent seven weeks at number one following its release in 2014. Other artists in the top ten include Drake, Justin Bieber and Pharrell Williams.

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What is the oldest song known to man?

The Hurrian Hymn was discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed with Cuneiform text. It's the oldest surviving melody and is over 3,400 years old.

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Listen to the enchanting sound of the world’s oldest song, the Hurrian Hymn

By Lizzie Davis

The Hurrian Hymn was discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed with Cuneiform text. It’s the oldest surviving melody and is over 3,400 years old. The hymn was discovered on a clay tablet in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated the Hurrians’ goddess of the orchards Nikkal. The clay tablet text, which was discovered alongside around 30 other tablet fragments, specifies 9 lyre strings and the intervals between those strings – kind of like an ancient guitar tab. But this is the only hymn that could be reconstructed – although the name of the composer is now lost.

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Doesn’t look much like music, does it…?

The system of music notation we use now wasn’t invented until 1000 AD. This is something altogether different. The notation here is essentially a set of instructions for intervals and tuning based around a heptatonic diatonic scale. There’s much more detail about the precise language and instructions here. The lyrics are very difficult to translate, but one academic has come up with this rendering of them: ‘Once I have endeared the deity, she will love me in her heart,