Oasis top list of Best British songs of all time - full 100 ranked

16 Oasis songs made the top 100 list dominated by Mancunian bands. Here's the Radio X Best British Song list in full

Oasis have topped an annual list of the best British songs of all time for the second year running. The Manchester rock legends dominated the top 100 list, as voted by listeners of Radio X.

The full 100 was counted down across the Easter weekend on the radio station. And on Easter Monday, listeners got to hear the top 10, and the song that won the most votes.

And it was Oasis classic Live Forever that claimed the top spot - for a second year running.

With Oasis fever at an all time high ahead of the band's highly-anticipated reunion tour this summer, the votes came flooding in for their iconic anthems.

Live Forever was one of four Oasis tracks making the top 10 - alongside Champagne Supernova, Slide Away and Don't Look Back in Anger.

They were also the most popular band on the list - having a record-breaking 16 songs in the top 100 for the first time this year.

It is the 10th year of the annual Best of British with B&Q poll on Radio X.

Queen’s iconic 1975 anthem Bohemian Rhapsody was named second in the list for a consecutive year, while The Stone Roses’ I Am The Resurrection moves up one place to fifth.

The Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter jumps up two places to sixth, and Geordie hero Sam Fender’s Seventeen Going Under re-enters the top 10, moving up five places into seventh.

Amy Winehouse was the highest placed female artist on a list otherwise dominated by male bands and artists, with her hit Back To Black coming in tenth on the list.

Oasis were the most popular artist with 16 entries – two more than last year – with fan favourites like The Masterplan, Morning Glory and Wonderwall all making it into the top 100.

Behind Oasis were Arctic Monkeys with eight tracks in total, followed closely by The Stone Roses with seven, who also had this year’s highest climber – Fools Gold, jumping up 68 places to 11^th place.

Bands from Greater Manchester dominated the top 100 list - with songs hailing from the region the most represented for a second year running.

There were 37 songs from 11 different Greater Manchester-based artists, including The Smiths, Joy Division, Courteeners and Oasis as well as Wigan's The Lathums, The Verve, Bury's Elbow and Stockport's Blossoms.

Matt Deverson, Managing Editor of Radio X, said: “‘Live Forever’ had to be number one, didn’t it? And with Oasis dominating the 100 with 16 songs in the list, it reflects the growing excitement among Radio X listeners for what will be the biggest music and cultural moment of the year, from the biggest band in the world right now!”

Radio X Best of British 2025 top 100

(Greater Manchester bands in bold)

1. Oasis – ‘Live Forever’
2. Queen – ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
3. Oasis – ‘Slide Away’
4. The Stone Roses – ‘I Am The Resurrection’
5. Oasis – ‘Champagne Supernova’
6. The Rolling Stones – ‘Gimme Shelter’
7. Sam Fender – ‘Seventeen Going Under’
8. Oasis – ‘Don't Look Back In Anger’
9. Arctic Monkeys – ‘505’
10. Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’
11. The Stone Roses – ‘Fool’s Gold’
12. Pink Floyd – ‘Wish You Were Here’
13. Courteeners – ‘Not Nineteen Forever’
14. David Bowie – ‘Heroes’
15. Nothing But Thieves – ‘Overcome’
16. Pulp – ‘Common People’
17. Stereophonics – ‘Dakota’
18. Joy Division – ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’
19. Paolo Nutini – ‘Iron Sky’
20. Shed Seven – ‘Chasing Rainbows’
21. Sam Fender – ‘People Watching’
22. Florence And The Machine – ‘Dog Days Are Over’
23. Snow Patrol – ‘Chasing Cars’
24. Oasis – ‘Acquiesce’
25. The Stone Roses – ‘I Wanna Be Adored’
26. The Verve – ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’
27. The Smiths – ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’
28. Oasis – ‘Wonderwall’
29. Arctic Monkeys – ‘A Certain Romance’
30. New Order – ‘Blue Monday’
31. Oasis – ‘The Masterplan’
32. The Prodigy – Firestarter’
33. David Bowie – ‘Life On Mars?’
34. Radiohead – ‘Creep’
35. The Rolling Stones – ‘Sympathy For The Devil’
36. The Rolling Stones – ‘Paint It, Black’
37. Nothing But Thieves – ‘Welcome To The DCC’
38. The Smiths – ‘How Soon Is Now?’
39. Depeche Mode – ‘Enjoy The Silence’
40. Arctic Monkeys – ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’
41. Oasis – ‘Cigarettes And Alcohol’
42. Stereophonics – ‘A Thousand Trees’
43. The Beatles – ‘Let It Be’
44. Nothing But Thieves – ‘Amsterdam’
45. Oasis – ‘Supersonic’
46. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Mardy Bum’
47. Blur – ‘Parklife’
48. The Lathums – ‘Struggle’
49. David Bowie – ‘Let's Dance’
50. The Clash – ‘London Calling’
51. Muse – ‘Knights Of Cydonia’
52. The Smiths – ‘This Charming Man’
53. Sam Fender – ‘Hypersonic Missiles’
54. The Libertines – ‘Don't Look Back Into The Sun’
55. Nothing But Thieves – ‘Impossible’
56. Stereophonics – ‘Local Boy In The Photograph’
57. Amy Winehouse – ‘Rehab’
58. The Stone Roses – ‘Waterfall’
59. Blossoms – ‘Gary’
60. The Prodigy – ‘Breathe’
61. Oasis – ‘Half The World Away’
62. Oasis – ‘Rock 'N' Roll Star’
63. Skunk Anansie – ‘Weak’
64. Oasis – ‘Whatever’
65. David Bowie – ‘Starman’
66. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’
67. Blur – ‘Song 2’
68. Oasis – ‘Morning Glory’
69. The Stone Roses – ‘Made Of Stone’
70. The Lathums – ‘Say My Name’
71. The Verve – ‘Lucky Man’
72. Stereophonics – ‘The Bartender And The Thief’
73. Kasabian – ‘Club Foot’
74. The Stone Roses – ‘Sally Cinnamon’
75. Stereophonics – ‘C'est La Vie’
76. The Stone Roses – ‘She Bangs The Drums’
77. Radiohead – ‘Fake Plastic Trees’
78. Led Zeppelin – ‘Stairway To Heaven’
79. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Do I Wanna Know?’
80. Snow Patrol – ‘Run’
81. Elbow – ‘One Day Like This’
82. Kasabian – ‘Fire’
83. Oasis – ‘Cast No Shadow’
84. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – ‘If I Had A Gun’
85. The Beatles – ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’
86. The Prodigy – ‘No Good (Start The Dance)’
87. The Beatles – ‘Come Together’
88. Arctic Monkeys – ‘When The Sun Goes Down’
89. Skunk Anansie – ‘Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)’
90. Blossoms – ‘Perfect Me’
91. Paolo Nutini – ‘Last Request’
92. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Cornerstone’
93. Sam Fender – ‘Spit Of You’
94. Blossoms – ‘Your Girlfriend’
95. The Kooks – ‘Naïve’
96. Stereophonics – ‘Maybe Tomorrow’
97. Oasis – ‘All Around The World’
98. Pulp – ‘Disco 2000’
99. Wet Leg – ‘Wet Dream’
100. Oasis – ‘Some Might Say’