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World Service compiles first ever international top ten of favourite
songs
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World Service has launched a unique quest to find the world's favourite
songs.
It
is celebrating its 70th anniversary this December with a mega global
music poll which will identify the world's favourite talent –
local as well as international.
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World Service is asking its 150 million listeners to vote for their
favourite songs, creating the ultimate World's Top Ten.
The
final chart will run on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service programme, Wright
Round the World, on Saturday 21 December and will also be broadcast
across language sections.
The
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service is asking everyone to vote for the World's Top
Ten, from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe.
To
make sure everybody has a chance, votes are accepted by post and
electronically via a dedicated website - .
The
website will detail the most popular nominations, identify musical
trends and highlight the most exciting choices.
30-second
tasters of the final World's Top Ten will also be available via
the site.
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World Service 70th Project Editor, David Stead, says this is a fun
way to celebrate the anniversary and engage the audience all over
the world.
"This
is hugely exciting. We don't think this has ever been done before.
Music is a universal language and to find out what the world's favourite
songs are will be really fascinating," he says.
Notes
to Editors
Around
150 million
people around the world listen to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service every week.
It
remains the world's best known and most listened to international
radio broadcaster.
The
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service broadcasts in 43 languages including English.
The
other languages are: Albanian, Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Brazilian,
Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Croatian, Czech, French, Greek, Hausa,
Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Kyrgyz,
Macedonian, Mandarin, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish,
Swahili, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese.
The
English Network can be heard on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s digital multiplex in the
UK, or in Europe on the Astra satellite, channel 865.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
World Service Extra - a new radio service broadcasting in the key
languages of Afghanistan and the surrounding region - is available
on digital satellite channel 902.
Outside
the UK, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service is available on short wave; on FM in more
than 129 capital cities; and selected programmes are carried on
almost 2,000 FM and MW radio stations around the world.
High
quality reception of World Service programmes is available via satellite
in Europe and North America.
The
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service website
contains extensive, interactive news services and audiostreaming
available in 43 languages.
It
also contains detailed information about World Service broadcasts,
schedules and frequencies.
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