Festive Fifty |
1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | ||||||
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
*The penultimate chart hosted by John Peel was also the third chart where all the tracks were played in a single show (the previous occasions were 1993 and 1997).
- Vote rigging plagued this year's Fifty, with the Dawn Parade being particular victims.
- Top scoring artists were Low, with three entries.
Shows[]
- 26 December 2002: #50-#01
The Festive Fifty of 2002[]
John Peel's Festive Fifty - 2002
- Cinerama: "Quick, Before It Melts"
- Miss Black America: "Talk Hard"
- Nina Nastasia: "Ugly Face"
- AntiHero: "Rolling Stones T-Shirt"
- M.A.S.S.: "Hey Gravity"
- Laura Cantrell: "Too Late For Tonight"
- Pinhole: "So Over You"
- Marc Smith Vs Safe n' Sound: "Identify The Beat"
- Ballboy: "All The Records On The Radio Are Sh*te"
- Miss Black America: "Miss Black America"
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Bang"
- Cinerama: "Careless"
- Half Man, Half Biscuit: "The Light At The End Of The Tunnel"
- White Stripes: "Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground"
- Low: "In The Drugs"
- Asa-Chang & Junray: "Hana"
- Low: "Canada"
- Coin Op: "Democracies"
- Belle & Sebastian: "You Send Me (Live At Peel Acres)"
- Datsuns: "In Love"
- The Fall: "Susan vs Youthclub"
- Jeffrey Lewis: "The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song"
- Ballboy: "Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go? (When They Do Not Come To Me)"
- Cornershop: "Staging The Plaguing Of The Raised Platform"
- Saloon: "Have You Seen The Light?"
- White Stripes: "Fell In Love With A Girl"
- Cranebuilders: "You're Song"
- The Delgados: "Mr Blue Sky (Session)"
- Bearsuit: "Drinkink"
- Ladytron: "Seventeen"
- Boom Bip & Doseone: "Mannequin Trapdoor"
- Von Bondies: "It Came From Japan"
- Wire: "99.9 (Session)"
- McLusky: "Alan Is A Cowboy Killer"
- Low: "(That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace"
- AntiHero: "You Got Nothing (Session)"
- Half Man, Half Biscuit: "Breaking News"
- Cinerama: "Cat Girl Tights"
- McLusky: "To Hell With Good Intentions"
- Burning Love Jumpsuit: "Cheerleader"
- Interpol: "Obstacle 1"
- Melys: "So Good"
- The Delgados: "Coming In From The Cold"
- Miss Black America: "Infinite Chinese Box"
- Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: "Celebrate Your Mother"
- D4: "Get Loose"
- Mum: "Green Grass Of Tunnel"
- Aphrodisiacs: "This Is A Campaign"
- Dawn Parade: "The Hole In My Heart"
Availability[]
- The entire rundown (minus the interstitial records), separated into fifty tracks, was originally circulated via John Peel Torrent Compilation 1 of 17 (Festive Fifties 1992-2004 Plus Others).
- The 500 Box version contains the entire show (minus one track at the very start) and some of the following in seven files: see the date page for download links.
- This prompted user bty997881 to offer the whole show, recorded on DAT: please contact the Peel Mailing List with regard to obtaining this version.