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Def Leppard Featured On BBC Radio 2's 100 Best Selling Artists

Friday, 30th December 2016





Animal 1987.

Def Leppard had two songs featured on a BBC Radio 2 countdown show on 28th December.

The World's Best Selling Artists show is currently running on BBC Radio 2 each morning from 9:30am to midday.

The band had both 'Animal' and 'When Love And Hate Collide', their two biggest UK hits, included on Wednesday's show.

Counting down from Number 60 (Cher) to Number 42 (Britney Spears).

Def Leppard were listed as #59 on the list followed by two songs from Bryan Adams.

The show also included two songs by Guns N' Roses, Prince and Paul McCartney's band Wings.

The DJ Paddy O'Connell manages to start 'WLAHC' during the fade out section of 'Animal' and then has fade out the restart of the song as 'WLAHC' kicks in. Which (if you read 'Animal Instinct') was the original intention of having the gap at the end of the song, to mess with DJs.

You can listen to the show for another 27 days (UK only).

BBC Radio 2 - Show Quotes

"Well, we're moving on. They outsold Cher we reckon, and they certainly had bigger hair. They are the boys from Def Leppard.."

The World's 100 Best Selling Artists (#60 to #41) 28th December 2016 - Tracklisting

  • #60 - Cher - Believe/Walking in Memphis
  • #59 - Def Leppard - Animal/When Love & Hate Collide
  • #58 - Bryan Adams - Run To You/(Everything I Do) I Do It For You
  • #57 - Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet/Money For Nothing
  • #56 - Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone/Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
  • #55 - The Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You/Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
  • #54 - Chicago - If You Leave Me Now/Hard Habit To Break
  • #53 - Julio Iglesias - Volver A Empezar (Begin The Beguine)
  • #52 - Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately/All For You
  • #51 - Kenny Rodgers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town/Islands In The Stream
  • #50 - Paul McCartney/Wings - Jet/Listen To What The Man Said
  • #49 - Prince - Little Red Corvette/The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
  • #48 - Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rose/Love On The Rocks
  • #47 - Backstreet Boys - Shape Of My Heart
  • #46 - Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine/Live And Let Die
  • #45 - George Strait - Write This Down
  • #44 - Tom Jones - I'll never Fall In Love Again
  • #43 - Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way/Everywhere
  • #42 - Britney Spears - Baby One More Time

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