Smooth Radio (UK) Top 500 songs list - Voting OPEN!!

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ATTENTION

The Smooth Icons countdown is now on air. It’s at #69 now, so it will hopefully be a while before they get to MJ.

Listen here: https://www.globalplayer.com/live/smooth/uk/

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Michael is Smooth Icon #1.

14. Lionel Richie
13. David Bowie
12. Stevie Wonder
11. Rod Stewart
10. Beatles
09. Prince
08. Elton John
07. Elvis Presley
06. Bee Gees
05. Abba
04. Whitney Houston
03. Queen
02. George Michael
01. Michael Jackson

They’re playing 2 songs each from the top 5.
Michael’s songs are Man in the Mirror and Billie Jean.

Congratulations!

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Which means... you have voted for @MichaelJackson as the number one artist of all time in #SmoothIcons 2020 �� pic.twitter.com/zJpVtvvvo4

— Smooth Radio (@SmoothRadio) August 31, 2020

[JichaelMackson]

Michael is Smooth Icon #1.

14. Lionel Richie
13. David Bowie
12. Stevie Wonder
11. Rod Stewart
10. Beatles
09. Prince
08. Elton John
07. Elvis Presley
06. Bee Gees
05. Abba
04. Whitney Houston
03. Queen
02. George Michael
01. Michael Jackson

They’re playing 2 songs each from the top 5.
Michael’s songs are Man in the Mirror and Billie Jean.

Congratulations!

That looks like a pretty definitive list of pop icons, the only that is missing is Madonna

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That looks like a pretty definitive list of pop icons, the only that is missing is Madonna

Madonna was #18. I just didn’t write it all down. There were 100 artists.

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Smooth Icons 2020: Michael Jackson is voted the number one artist of all time

31 August 2020, 18:53



After thousands of votes, we have crowned the winner of Smooth Icons 2020.

Michael Jackson was voted by Smooth Radio listeners and SmoothRadio.com readers as the best artist of all time in the second Smooth Icons countdown.

Over 43,000 votes were cast in the poll, which saw last year's winner George Michael settle for second place.

The highest group was Queen at three, followed by the highest female solo artist Whitney Houston at four. The top five was rounded out by ABBA.

Smooth Icons aired on Smooth Radio on Monday (August 31), after an online vote asked listeners to vote for their favourite artists of all time.

[…]

The full top 100:

1 Michael Jackson
2 George Michael
3 Queen
4 Whitney Houston
5 ABBA
6 Bee Gees
7 Elvis Presley
8 Elton John
9 Prince
10 The Beatles
11 Rod Stewart
12 Stevie Wonder
13 David Bowie
14 Lionel Richie
15 The Carpenters
16 Diana Ross
17 Phil Collins
18 Madonna
19 Adele
20 Celine Dion
21 Boy George
22 Tina Turner
23 Aretha Franklin
24 Fleetwood Mac
25 Luther Vandross
26 Bob Marley
27 Eagles
28 Ed Sheeran
29 Marvin Gaye
30 Billy Joel
31 Michael Bublé
32 Neil Diamond
33 John Lennon
34 Dolly Parton
35 Take That
36 Barry White
37 Earth, Wind & Fire
38 Bryan Adams
39 Barbra Streisand
40 Simply Red
41 Coldplay
42 Annie Lennox
43 Simon & Garfunkel
44 Robbie Williams
45 Pet Shop Boys
46 The Beach Boys
47 Paul McCartney
48 Blondie
49 Duran Duran
50 UB40
51 Bruce Springsteen
52 George Benson
53 Shania Twain
54 Billy Ocean
55 The Four Seasons
56 Al Green
57 Gladys Knight
58 Wet Wet Wet
59 A-Ha
60 Gloria Estefan
61 Sting
62 Louis Armstrong
63 Aerosmith
64 Alison Moyet
65 The Four Tops
66 Dusty Springfield
67 Hall & Oates
68 Foreigner
69 U2
70 Sam Cooke
71 Madness
72 Otis Redding
73 Dionne Warwick
74 Chicago
75 Smokey Robinson
76 Olivia Newton-John
77 Bryan Ferry
78 Bill Withers
79 Hot Chocolate
80 Eric Clapton
81 Alexander O'Neal
82 Jackie Wilson
83 Paul Young
84 Nile Rodgers
85 REM
86 Michael McDonald
87 Tracy Chapman
88 The Righteous Brothers
89 Seal
90 Van Morrison
91 Tom Jones
92 James Taylor
93 Bon Jovi
94 Kate Bush
95 Lisa Stansfield
96 Mariah Carey
97 Richard Marx
98 Gerry Rafferty
99 Randy Crawford
100 Gloria Gaynor

https://www.smoothradio.com/news/mus...p-100-results/

[Anna]

Sad they had to put that "you have voted for" reminder in there for the inevitable twitter backlash. Oh well. Michael was number 6 last year. The power of love triumphs.

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Sad they had to put that "you have voted for" reminder in there for the inevitable twitter backlash. Oh well. Michael was number 6 last year. The power of love triumphs.

They did post a couple of times on his birthday, though, when they didn’t have to. So we’re getting there, step by step.

And if you go to their website, they have embedded a dancing MJ animated GIF in their article.

[Albion]

This is really positive and great timing Michaels birthday weekend and the anniversary of Bad. Smooth was one of those stations that stopped playing Michaels music for a while but he’s now back on the playlist and a result like this will tell the music programmers that it’s not good business sense to mute Michael. You have to give the listeners what they want. And they want Michael.

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I agree. And I’m convinced that if 2019 hasn’t managed to permanently remove MJ from his throne, nothing ever will. The only way from here is up and up and up.

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More “smooth” tweets.

What a countdown! Bravo, #MichaelJackson and his fans!

Thanks to everyone who voted and listened to #SmoothIcons 2020 - see you next year... �� �� https://t.co/97Vts5bpcJ

— Smooth Radio (@SmoothRadio) August 31, 2020

#SmoothIcons recap 10-1:
10. @thebeatles
9. #Prince
8. @eltonofficial
7. @ElvisPresley
6. @BeeGees
5. @abba
4. #WhitneyHouston
3. @QueenWillRock
2. @GeorgeMichael
1. @michaeljackson pic.twitter.com/WyAEfvx7zh

— Smooth Radio (@SmoothRadio) August 31, 2020

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Congratulations Michael!

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The whole Smooth Icons playlist is now available, if you missed the live stream.

https://www.globalplayer.com/playlists/8bMq/

[83magic]

this makes me so happy I like to think my vote contributed to the result I could stare at that Motown 25 gif forever. it's interesting how 'billie jean' manages to be smooth and danceable at the same time

[NatureCriminal7896]

it's happening again!

One major UK Radio Station is doing one of their yearly polls. Last year, Smooth Radio crowned Michael Jackson as number one in their Smooth Icon Top 100 and Michael’s songs were hugely present in Smooth’s All Time Top 500 songs.

The latest is back for 2021! Last year, 20 Michael Jackson songs appeared in the Top 500 with two songs in the Top 10. Not far from Number one but not yet Number one!

So it is time to vote for this year Smooth’s All Time Top 500!

https://www.smoothradio.com/news/mus...1-vote-listen/

https://top500.smoothradio.com/2021/