The news of David Bowie’s death in Manhattan broke out on news media at around 2:20am EST on early morning of Monday 1/11. For the record, according to published playlists, here’s the list of complete Bowie songs played on UK’s National classic rock/pop station Radio 2 within the first 24 hours after (not snippets; album,single&live versions not distinguished, except “Helden” which is the German version of “Heroes”):
Title (frequency)
Space Oddity (Twice)
Starman
“Heroes” (Three Times)
Let’s Dance (Twice)
Fashion
Rebel Rebel (Three Times)
Sound And Vision (Twice)
Absolute Beginners (Twice)
Changes (Twice)
Ziggy Stardust
Life On Mars?
Golden Years
Five Years (from ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars’)
Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
Drive-In Saturday (Twice)
Always Crashing in the Same Car
The Man Who Sold The World
Young Americans
Lady Grinning Soul
Kooks (Twice)
Aladdin Sane
Blue Jean
John, I’m Only Dancing
I Can’t Give Everything Away
All the Young Dudes (David Bowie’s version)
Modern Love
Oh! You Pretty Things
Wild in the Wind
Boys Keep Swinging
The Laughing Gnome
China Girl (Twice)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (Twice)
The Jean Genie
Moonage Daydream
Sunday
Look Back in Anger
Cactus
Survive
5:15 The Angels Have Gone
Alabama Song
Everyone Says Hi
Bewley Brothers (Twice)
Heathen (The Rays)
Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys remix)
Diamonds Dogs
Helden
The Prettiest Star
Where Are We Now? (Twice)
Lazarus
More mini-list: Top 8 Bowie Impact on Global Charts – a rough guide (by top ranks in most number of territories) as of 1/11/2016 (that is his latest is excluded)
1.Let’s Dance
2.Under Pressure (with Queen)
3.Absolute Beginners
4.This Is Not America (with Pat Metheny Group)
5.Space Oddity
6.China Girl
7.Blue Jean
8.Where Are We Now?
And according to Billboard a ranking of his 20 most popular songs on Hot 100 as of 1/11/2016; compiled by Keith Caufield (Billboard chart co-director at large):
1, “Let’s Dance,” No. 1, May 21, 1983
2, “Fame,” No. 1, Sept. 20, 1975
3, “Golden Years,” No. 10, April 3, 1976
4, “Dancing in the Street” (Mick Jagger & David Bowie), No. 7, Oct. 12, 1985
5, “Blue Jean,” No. 8, Nov. 3, 1984
6, “China Girl,” No. 10, Aug. 27, 1983
7, “Space Oddity,” No. 15, April 7, 1973
8, “Modern Love,” No. 14, Nov. 12, 1983
9, “Day-In Day-Out,” No. 21, May 23, 1987
10, “Under Pressure” (Queen & David Bowie), No. 29, Jan. 9, 1982
11, “Never Let Me Down,” No. 27, Sept. 26, 1987
12, “This Is Not America” (David Bowie/Pat Metheny), No. 32, March 23, 1985
13, “Young Americans,” No. 28, May 10, 1975
14, “Changes,” No. 41, Feb. 1, 1975
15, “Absolute Beginners,” No. 53, May 3, 1986
16, “Tonight,” No. 53, Dec. 22, 1984
17, “Rebel Rebel,” No. 64, June 22, 1974
18, “I’m Afraid of Americans,” No. 70, Dec. 27, 1997
19, “Fashion,” No. 70, Jan. 10, 1981
20, “Starman,” No. 65, Aug. 19, 1972
Official Radio 2 two-hour archive docu. available on demand for the next 19 days only thru BBCiPlayer (starts 3 minutes after the news):
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z19rx