{"id":30479,"date":"2024-09-30T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queen-is-no-longer-the-most-played-british-group-of-the-21st-century\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:02:27","slug":"queen-is-no-longer-the-most-played-british-group-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queen-is-no-longer-the-most-played-british-group-of-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen is no longer the most played British group of the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-27\/Getty_Queen_092724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Omar Vega\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Queen<\/strong> is no longer the most played British group of the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famers previously held the crown, but according to new data released by music licensors <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppluk.com\/coldplay-crowned-most-played-british-group-of-the-21st-century\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>PPL<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famers\u00a0have now fallen to second place behind <strong>Coldplay<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The data from\u00a0PPL, which licenses the use of recorded music\u00a0to radio and TV and in public places,\u00a0notes\u00a0that tunes by Coldplay have been played on U.K. radio and TV 40,000 more times than those of Queen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Artists like\u00a0<strong>The Beatles<\/strong>, <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> and <strong>The Police<\/strong>\u00a0also made it\u00a0on PPL&#8217;s list of the top 20 most played British artists of the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Beatles land at five this\u00a0year behind pop groups <strong>Take That<\/strong> and <strong>Little Mix<\/strong>, with The Stones at 10, The Police at 14 and <strong>ELO<\/strong> at 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other artists landing in the top 20 include <strong>Bee Gees<\/strong>, <strong>Eurhythmics<\/strong>, <strong>Duran Duran<\/strong>, <strong>Oasis<\/strong>, <strong>Snow Patrol<\/strong> and <strong>Wham!<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar Vega\/Getty Images Queen is no longer the most played British group of the 21st century. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famers previously held the crown, but according to new data released by music licensors PPL, the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famers\u00a0have now fallen to second place behind<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queen-is-no-longer-the-most-played-british-group-of-the-21st-century\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}