The Festive Fifty was originally an annual list of the year's 50 (though the exact figure varied above and below this number) best songs compiled at the...

major national coverage to bands that later achieved fame. The annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year was a notable...

John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1996, and held the same position in 1997. A track would not usually be permitted to qualify for the Festive Fifty more than...

played extensively by John Peel and took the 6th position in the 1998 Festive Fifty. Following this it was released as the band's first single. A six-track...

Riperton's voice, and was ranked at number 10 on John Peel's year-end Festive Fifty for 1990, listed as "Loving You (Session)". American singer-songwriter...

Peel's Festive Fifty for 1993. The re-recorded version of "French Disko" (see below) was voted #5 in the same poll, and #36 in the All-Time Festive Fifty broadcast...

booked them for a session in 1999. They reached number 44 in Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998. The lo-fi music incorporated sometimes humorous — but often...

placed at number 18 in John Peel's all-time Festive Fifty millennium edition. Playing it in 1980's Festive Fifty, he introduced it as an "artful little caprice"...

recorded five Peel Sessions during their career, also making the 1999 Festive Fifty with "Food Music", and one in 2003 for Jeff Cooper's radio2XS. They...

and Superior" was voted #53 best song of the year by the John Peel Festive Fifty radio show audience in 1985, a year that show played the top 70. This...

[citation needed] In 1976, "Paralyzed" ranked 15th in the first ever Festive Fifty, a top 50 list documenting the favourite songs of listeners of John...

BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel went on to include the song at No. 25 in his Festive Fifty list for 1982. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stewart Mason...

Hamster Dance Enhanced". gettingit.com. Retrieved January 31, 2024. BBC: Festive Fifty 1999 "KOCH RECORDS TO RELEASE HAMPTON THE HAMPSTER: THE HAMPSTERDANCE...

Their track "Low & Sweet" was listed in British DJ John Peel's 2001 Festive Fifty. Their song "Vagabond" has been featured in the popular video game Grand...

"Under Canvas, Under Wraps" being voted number three in John Peel's Festive Fifty that year. The band released their second studio album in 1998, Peloton...

flexi release ("Preposterous Tales") reached Number 11 in John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1987. In January 2008, Martin Brett from Voice of the Beehive joined...

on the UK Singles Chart and was ranked number eight in John Peel's Festive Fifty of that year. After experiencing success as part of the Madchester music...

number 74 in Australia, and it was voted number one in John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1989. The song's lyrical theme is "desire", treated as a general...

wider UK attention when it was voted number 44 in John Peel's 1987 Festive Fifty. "The O-Men" is a spoof on the speed metal band Omen, inspired by and...

In 1994, the song was number 3 in British Radio One DJ John Peel's Festive Fifty. In a 2014 retrospective, music magazine Paste listed "Seether" at number...

albums of all time. Tracks from Second Light also dominated Peel's Festive Fifty in 1995, and the band recorded six Peel sessions between 1993 and 2001...

track "Long Distance Love" was placed at number 26 in John Peel's 1976 "Festive Fifty". The album was voted number 555 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's...

"Birthday", which was later voted by his listeners as #1 in the 1987 Festive Fifty, and #23 in the All Time Chart. Their music has been described as avant-pop...

was voted by radio listeners for inclusion in John Peel's end-of-year Festive Fifty. Awarded Single of the Week by the Melody Maker, it was extremely well...

2005. The track "Tale from Black" featured at number 37 in the 2004 Festive Fifty. "Mother's Daughter" – 3:24 "People Folk" – 4:09 "Out the Window with...

Guitar Solos of All-Time. English disc jockey John Peel's 1976 list of Festive Fifty featured the song at no. 25. It was second, third or fourth place for...

eleven sessions for John Peel on BBC Radio 1 and came first in his Festive Fifty in 2001. They won Best Welsh-language Act at the Welsh Music Awards...

and NME in August 1987, and was selected as number one in John Peel's Festive Fifty list, the band attained worldwide recognition and success. In the United...

appeared in John Peel's Festive Fifty in both 1980 and 1981, reaching 21 and 56 respectively and number 34 on All Time Festive Fifty broadcast in 2000. Subsequently...

company.[citation needed] Nonetheless, it placed No. 36 on John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1990. PopMatters described the song as follows: "Set to an upbeat...