{"id":11188,"date":"2025-08-20T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/11188\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:48:08","slug":"list-of-funeral-favourite-songs-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/11188\/","title":{"rendered":"List of funeral favourite songs released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The most popular songs played at funerals have been revealed, with Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman\u2019s Time To Say Goodbye top of the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Co-op Funeralcare said its study of songs over the past year at funerals it arranged showed the second most popular was Frank Sinatra\u2019s My Way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tina Turner\u2019s The Best and Westlife\u2019s You Raise Me Up were also in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Co-op said the top 10 were:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1. Time to Say Goodbye \u2013 Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman<br \/>2. My Way \u2013 Frank Sinatra<br \/>3. Somewhere Over The Rainbow \u2013 Eva Cassidy<br \/>4. You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone \u2013 Liverpool FC<br \/>5. The Best \u2013 Tina Turner<br \/>6. Supermarket Flowers \u2013 Ed Sheeran<br \/>7. Wind Beneath My Wings \u2013 Bette Midler<br \/>8. Abide With Me (hymn)<br \/>9. We\u2019ll Meet Again \u2013 Vera Lynn<br \/>10. You Raise Me Up \u2013 Westlife<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Liverpool FC\u2019s You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone by Gerry and the Pacemakers topped a list of sports-themed songs played at funerals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among the quirky songs played at funerals over the last year, included Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead from The Wizard of Oz, Dance Monkey by Tones &amp; I, the Jaws movie soundtrack, and We Like To Party by Vengaboys.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0aee3942e3e93ef4de8b74ba9e8b3f39.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli performing (Yui Mok\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gill Stewart, managing director at Co-op Funeralcare said: \u201cMusic has a powerful way of bringing back memories, reflecting our personalities, and connecting us to loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cChoosing a song that is meaningful to you can be an important part of saying goodbye, whether it\u2019s a traditional hymn or something light-hearted and quirky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhile every funeral is unique and deeply personal, our annual music chart highlights the tracks that continue to resonate across the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis year, we\u2019re continuing to encourage open conversations around end-of-life planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTalking about the music you\u2019d like at your funeral is a simple yet meaningful step and can offer real comfort to those left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The research was conducted among Co-op\u2019s funeral directors and arrangers during May and June 2025 based on more than 90,000 funerals conducted in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most popular songs played at funerals have been revealed, with Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman\u2019s Time To&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[10829,10830,18,117,10836,19,17,10835,337,10831,10833,10832,10834],"class_list":{"0":"post-11188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-andrea-bocelli","9":"tag-co-op-funeralcare","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-frank-sinatra","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-most-popular-songs","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-sarah-brightman","18":"tag-somewhere-over-the-rainbow","19":"tag-songs-played-at-funerals","20":"tag-time-to-say-goodbye"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}