Music fans have criticised Radio X for a lack of diversity, after a new poll named Oasis’ ‘Live Forever’ as the greatest British song of all time.
The top 100 list, which was entirely voted for by listeners and didn’t feature a shortlist, saw five Oasis tracks feature in the top 10 – with ‘Live Forever’ accompanied by ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Slide Away’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’.
But the definitive ranking of the tracks has drawn criticism from fans, who called for greater inclusion by female, LGBT and ethnic minority musicians.
“The Radio X Best Of British list is fascinating, never realised there’s actually no such thing as women or black people”, one user wrote on Twitter.
Another said: “Almost goes without saying, but that Radio X ‘Best of British’ list is awful. It’s just the whitest, penisiest collection of music in existence.”
Check out a series of reactions below.
The Radio X Best Of British list is fascinating, never realised there's actually no such thing as women or black people.
— Kieran Devlin (@NoNotThatDevlin) April 3, 2018
Radio X's "Best of British" playlist has no women in the top 100 but features 15 songs by Oasis pic.twitter.com/q537N9T9eH
— Scene & Heard reports / David Ziggy Greene (@SaHreports) April 3, 2018
