Overview

• Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman’s Time to Say Goodbye holds the number one spot for a second consecutive chart, followed by Frank Sinatra’s My Way and Eva Cassidy’s Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
• The 2025 top 10 are: 1) Time to Say Goodbye; 2) My Way; 3) Somewhere Over The Rainbow; 4) You’ll Never Walk Alone; 5) The Best; 6) Supermarket Flowers; 7) Wind Beneath My Wings; 8) Abide With Me; 9) We’ll Meet Again; 10) You Raise Me Up.
• Notable shifts since 2023 include Eva Cassidy rising three places to third, while Ed Sheeran’s Supermarket Flowers and Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again drop to sixth and ninth, with Tina Turner and Westlife returning to the list.
• The analysis is compiled every two years from funeral directors’ records covering more than 90,000 Co‑op‑arranged funerals in the past 12 months.
• You’ll Never Walk Alone ranks fourth overall but remains the most selected sports‑themed song, and arrangers report more personalised choices such as Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, Gangnam Style, Dance Monkey, the Jaws theme and We Like To Party.