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  The Independent

  Hymns no longer most popular funeral song, as people favour of Frank Sinatra and Ed Sheeran

  Traditional hymns are no longer being regularly requested at funerals as new research reveals not a single one made this year’s top 10 most popular list. When it was first compiled in 2016, the list featured hymns such as "The Lord Is My Shepar", "All Things Bright and Beautiful", and "Abide With Me". The top three funeral songs this year have remained in the same spot since 2016, with "My Way" by Frank Sinatra at number one, followed by "Time to Say Goodbye" by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Bright

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  HuffPost UK

  These Are The Top 10 Most Requested Songs At Funerals, From Power Pop To Grime

  For the first time, no traditional hymns make the list.

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  PA Media: UK News

  Ed Sheeran enters chart of most popular songs played at funerals

  But My Way by Frank Sinatra remains top of the chart, says the Co-op.

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  Evening Standard

  Imelda May – Life Love Flesh Blood review: ‘her most personal collection’

  Having spent her apprenticeship as Jeff Beck’s crooner-in-chief, Imelda May has always seemed like a singer first and a solo artist second.

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  Ben Arnold

  How Terry Wogan launched the career of tragic singer Eva Cassidy

  By 1998, and after years in obscurity, the American singer-songwriter Eva Cassidy had become a huge star, with national radio play and an album at the top of the album charts. ‘Songbird’ would go on to sell well over one million copies in the UK alone, achieving platinum status, and many more around the world. It was thanks in no small measure to a pair of cover versions; ‘Over The Rainbow’, first immortalised by Judy Garland in ‘The Wizard of Oz’, and ‘Fields of Gold’, penned by Sting just a f

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