100 Great Scottish Songs: Scotland's Best Loved Songs

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The Edinburgh-based MC, who hit top five of this list two years ago, teams up with UK hip-hop producer Forest DLG on this politically charged wordplay underscored with a a neat drum and bass and Asian flavour Summer” reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart, solidifying its success in the charts. The song’s infectious beats and energetic vibe make it a favorite among electronic and dance music fans. Meaning “beyond the clouds”, this is a precious avant garde folk Edinburgh-based Romanian singer-songwriter's immigrant journey, having moved to Scotland at age 18 to study. It is simply heavenly cut from her enigmatic fifth album While I Sit And Watch This Tree Volume 2.

With over 562 million streams, it holds the title of the most-streamed song in the UK. It also topped the UK Singles Chart for seven consecutive weeks and was the best-selling single of 2019 in the country. saw a re-emergence of live music and festivals as Scotland looked to put the Covid pandemic way behind. The Glasgow singer-songwriter exposes tangible vulnerability and pain on this sensitive, emotional jewel from her EP Mooching. Irresistible cut from the killer Surface Pressure from Steg G, aka Steven Gilfoyle, who was the winner of the 2019 Scottish Alternative Music Award for Best Hip Hop featuring a penetrating mix of piano hooks, woodwind twists, whispers of reggae, reliable rasps of Conscious Route and a coherent social message. The complete list of Official UK Number 1 singles by Scottish acts with credited appearances only (bolded acts in collaborations are the Scottish musicians): YEAR

Mercury Prize nominee and SAY Award winner with his album Forest Floor which topped the UK’s Official Top 40 Jazz Charts features this majestic, haunting standout jazz-folk piano instrumental that hits home with a straightforward harmonic hook and a pastoral melancholy Scottish music is not all pipes and drums! Here’s 75 of the most influential songs to have come out of Scotland in the last 50 years. Some you’ll know off by heart, and more than a few might be new to you, but all have helped shape modern music into what it is today. Scots DJs Hannah Laing and Stephen Kirkwood collaborate on this sparkling banger that mixes house, hi-nrg disco and a haunting soul sample. An enchantingly spacey leftfield electro-glitch pop gem from the Edinburgh duo Fern Morris and Brian Pokora's debut album Closer For Comforting. "The Soft typifies our sound quite a bit, though it’s the more poppy end," said Morris. This captivating Scottish song carries a deep cultural significance. It has become one of the unofficial national anthems of Scotland and is often performed at special events and sporting occasions.

The mysterious Glasgow producer has made the top 30 of this list in 2020 and this 2022 release is a soaring euphoric slice of chill-house which builds round a simple keyboard hook, a spoken French count, while spiralling into a whirlpool of digita vs piano madness. If the winter of 1985 heralded a musical epiphany of sorts - ground zero even - then the seeds were sown twelve months earlier. Almost to the day in fact. As debut singles go, nothing could have prepared the synthetic pop landscape of the 1980s for the three minutes of visceral noise that was 'Upside Down'. Borne out of frustration from living in a deadend smalltown (East Kilbride), records like this only come around once in a blue moon. Guitar music would never be the same again.Arguably the most easily recognizable Scottish song is “Auld Lang Syne.” The song was written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 and has become synonymous with Scottish culture and heritage. It is taken from her glorious third EP Take Care Of Yourself which she describes as a "meditation on self-care, a rap to emotional openness, an ode to feeling okay (maybe even great) about you, yourself, and everything."