BBC Radio 4 - 'Best of Today'
British iTunes Chart Performance

"Best of Today": Chart Statistics

  • Release date: 13 Jan 2012
  • Chart debut: #90 (25 Sep 2013)
  • Highest Position: #1 (11 Jun 2016)
  • Most recent chart position: #63 (05 Nov 2018)
  • Days on UK Podcasts Chart: 350

'Best of Today' has charted in the following countries:
United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Spain and Australia.

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Summary: Insight, analysis and expert debate as key policy makers are challenged on the latest news stories.

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Detailed Chart Progress for "Best of Today" (BBC Radio 4)

UK Podcasts chart performance history for Best of Today

Year Month Day Position Movement Number 1
2013 Sep 25 Wed 90 re-entry Comedy.co.uk
Richard Herring - We're All Going To Die!
26 Thu 78 up Commonplace Books
Welcome to Night Vale
30 Mon 88 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2013 Oct 2 Wed 51 re-entry theguardian.com
Football Weekly
9 Wed 78 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
10 Thu 81 down
11 Fri 94 down
17 Thu 51 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Reith Lectures
18 Fri 85 down
2013 Nov 13 Wed 72 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
20 Wed 93 re-entry
23 Sat 95 re-entry
26 Tue 99 re-entry
27 Wed 72 up
2013 Dec 15 Sun 78 re-entry
17 Tue 96 re-entry
18 Wed 99 down
21 Sat 91 re-entry
23 Mon 77 re-entry
29 Sun 83 re-entry
31 Tue 61 re-entry
2014 Jan 1 Wed 69 down
2 Thu 81 down
3 Fri 80 up
5 Sun 81 re-entry
6 Mon 64 up
7 Tue 78 down
10 Fri 44 re-entry
11 Sat 56 down
13 Mon 99 re-entry
15 Wed 92 re-entry
16 Thu 74 up
17 Fri 43 up
18 Sat 51 down
19 Sun 77 down Commonplace Books
Welcome to Night Vale
2014 Feb 11 Tue 96 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
12 Wed 54 up CGP Grey & Brady Haran
Hello Internet
13 Thu 56 down
14 Fri 57 down
15 Sat 78 down BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
16 Sun 91 down
17 Mon 73 up
20 Thu 81 re-entry PodcastOne
The Ross Report
21 Fri 66 up BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
22 Sat 39 up
23 Sun 31 up
24 Mon 54 down
25 Tue 94 down
28 Fri 78 re-entry Comedy.co.uk
Richard Herring's Meaning Of Life
2014 Mar 1 Sat 53 up BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2 Sun 61 down
3 Mon 43 up
4 Tue 31 up
5 Wed 57 down
6 Thu 71 down Official Cream
Cream Radio
7 Fri 78 down BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
14 Fri 53 re-entry
16 Sun 62 re-entry
20 Thu 81 re-entry No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
23 Sun 83 re-entry
24 Mon 69 up
25 Tue 81 down
26 Wed 92 down
29 Sat 61 re-entry
30 Sun 89 down
2014 Apr 5 Sat 55 re-entry
6 Sun 91 down BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
7 Mon 79 up
22 Tue 76 re-entry
23 Wed 72 up Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
The Tim Ferriss Show
30 Wed 100 re-entry Unknown
2014 May 13 Tue 97 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
14 Wed 76 up
16 Fri 63 re-entry
27 Tue 82 re-entry No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
28 Wed 93 down Stephen J. Dubner and WNYC
Freakonomics Radio
30 Fri 57 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2014 Jun 1 Sun 80 re-entry
2 Mon 62 up
4 Wed 96 re-entry Apple Inc.
Apple Keynotes
10 Tue 65 re-entry ITV Sport
Alan Davies' Brazilian Banter
12 Thu 92 re-entry
13 Fri 79 up theguardian.com
World Cup Football Daily
16 Mon 79 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
17 Tue 71 up
18 Wed 49 up Dave
Alan Davies As Yet Untitled
2014 Jul 1 Tue 74 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
6 Sun 95 re-entry ITV Sport
ITV Tour de France Podcast
10 Thu 90 re-entry
18 Fri 88 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
21 Mon 93 re-entry
22 Tue 84 up BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage
23 Wed 85 down
25 Fri 95 re-entry
27 Sun 81 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2014 Aug 11 Mon 74 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Comedy of the Week
12 Tue 54 up
13 Wed 98 down theguardian.com
Football Weekly
22 Fri 100 re-entry
24 Sun 90 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Comedy of the Week
25 Mon 78 up
26 Tue 51 up
27 Wed 83 down
29 Fri 50 re-entry theguardian.com
Football Weekly
30 Sat 94 down BBC Radio 4
Comedy of the Week
31 Sun 85 up
2014 Sep 3 Wed 80 re-entry Grace Helbig and Jack Ferry
Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig
4 Thu 48 up Tyler Oakley
Psychobabble with Tyler Oakley
5 Fri 49 down
6 Sat 55 down
9 Tue 85 re-entry
10 Wed 80 up Apple Inc.
Apple Keynotes
11 Thu 74 up
20 Sat 68 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
21 Sun 53 up
23 Tue 44 up
25 Thu 33 up Dave
Crackanory
26 Fri 23 up BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
27 Sat 72 down
30 Tue 92 re-entry
2014 Oct 3 Fri 66 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Germany: Memories of a Nation
5 Sun 90 re-entry BBC Radio 4
The Archers Omnibus
7 Tue 82 re-entry Unknown
16 Thu 69 re-entry
17 Fri 43 up
18 Sat 52 down BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
19 Sun 73 down
25 Sat 74 re-entry
26 Sun 65 up
27 Mon 94 down
28 Tue 81 up
30 Thu 84 re-entry
2014 Nov 2 Sun 86 re-entry
4 Tue 63 re-entry Unknown
5 Wed 61 up
6 Thu 93 down
9 Sun 90 re-entry
11 Tue 85 re-entry
20 Thu 53 re-entry
21 Fri 93 down
22 Sat 42 up
25 Tue 62 re-entry
2014 Dec 2 Tue 99 re-entry
4 Thu 85 re-entry
29 Mon 90 re-entry
31 Wed 83 re-entry
2015 Jan 2 Fri 78 re-entry BBC Radio 4
War and Peace
3 Sat 88 down Unknown
4 Sun 65 up
5 Mon 91 down
6 Tue 88 up
9 Fri 97 re-entry
10 Sat 71 up
24 Sat 72 re-entry
26 Mon 78 re-entry
28 Wed 97 re-entry
2015 Feb 2 Mon 61 re-entry
3 Tue 94 down
8 Sun 99 re-entry
10 Tue 53 re-entry
16 Mon 69 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
17 Tue 87 down Unknown
18 Wed 91 down
24 Tue 91 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2015 Mar 1 Sun 96 re-entry
9 Mon 79 re-entry BBC Radio 4
The Business of Film with Mark Kermode
10 Tue 72 up
26 Thu 73 re-entry Private Eye
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
2015 Apr 8 Wed 79 re-entry
17 Fri 55 re-entry
18 Sat 79 down
19 Sun 46 up BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
20 Mon 56 down Private Eye
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
21 Tue 77 down
27 Mon 90 re-entry BBC Radio 4
The Vote Now Show
2015 May 6 Wed 100 re-entry Private Eye
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
11 Mon 84 re-entry
15 Fri 54 re-entry BBC Radio 2
Mark Kermode: The Soundtrack of My Life
16 Sat 68 down BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
31 Sun 82 re-entry
2015 Jun 1 Mon 95 down
2 Tue 69 up
12 Fri 27 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 Podcast
13 Sat 35 down BBC Radio 5 live
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
14 Sun 85 down
15 Mon 77 up
16 Tue 95 down
17 Wed 65 up BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
19 Fri 49 re-entry
20 Sat 66 down
20 Sat 66 no-move
22 Mon 63 re-entry
23 Tue 69 down
24 Wed 78 down
26 Fri 96 re-entry
28 Sun 83 re-entry
2015 Jul 1 Wed 44 re-entry
4 Sat 61 re-entry
5 Sun 88 down
6 Mon 55 up ITV Sport
ITV Tour de France Podcast
7 Tue 100 down BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
9 Thu 41 re-entry
10 Fri 77 down
11 Sat 88 down
12 Sun 90 down
13 Mon 65 up
14 Tue 63 up
15 Wed 59 up
16 Thu 70 down BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage
17 Fri 60 up BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
18 Sat 87 down
19 Sun 66 up
20 Mon 82 down
21 Tue 99 down BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage
22 Wed 89 up
26 Sun 85 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
28 Tue 71 re-entry BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage
31 Fri 58 re-entry
2015 Aug 4 Tue 94 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
8 Sat 71 re-entry
9 Sun 66 up
12 Wed 84 re-entry
13 Thu 65 up
14 Fri 56 up
15 Sat 77 down
21 Fri 86 re-entry
31 Mon 78 re-entry
2015 Sep 2 Wed 69 re-entry
3 Thu 57 up
4 Fri 42 up
6 Sun 92 re-entry
8 Tue 69 re-entry
9 Wed 54 up
10 Thu 82 down
13 Sun 74 re-entry
14 Mon 46 up
15 Tue 49 down
16 Wed 50 down
17 Thu 66 down ADAM BUXTON
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
18 Fri 51 up
19 Sat 69 down
21 Mon 78 re-entry
22 Tue 63 up
24 Thu 64 re-entry
25 Fri 76 down
29 Tue 96 re-entry Radio X
The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X Podcast
30 Wed 59 up
2015 Oct 1 Thu 73 down
2 Fri 98 down
3 Sat 93 up
4 Sun 100 down
5 Mon 97 up
6 Tue 79 up
7 Wed 86 down
8 Thu 65 up
9 Fri 67 down
10 Sat 78 down
20 Tue 100 re-entry
27 Tue 90 re-entry
28 Wed 98 down
30 Fri 92 re-entry
2015 Nov 2 Mon 80 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
3 Tue 92 down
14 Sat 85 re-entry
16 Mon 88 re-entry
17 Tue 93 down
19 Thu 94 re-entry Radio X
The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X Podcast
2015 Dec 3 Thu 79 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
4 Fri 79 no-move theguardian.com
Football Weekly
6 Sun 96 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
29 Tue 78 re-entry Unknown
31 Thu 79 re-entry
2016 Jan 2 Sat 90 re-entry
2016 Mar 16 Wed 3 re-entry BBC Radio 4
From Our Own Correspondent Podcast
17 Thu 53 down BBC World Service
The Documentary
18 Fri 99 down HowStuffWorks.com
BrainStuff
2016 May 27 Fri 6 re-entry Unknown
28 Sat 15 down
29 Sun 40 down BBC Radio 4
Desert Island Discs
30 Mon 84 down
2016 Jun 8 Wed 85 re-entry Duende Productions and Flameflower Studios
Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder
9 Thu 96 down
11 Sat 1 re-entry BBC Radio 4
Best of Today
12 Sun 6 down theguardian.com
Euro 2016 Football Daily
13 Mon 20 down
14 Tue 41 down
15 Wed 69 down Duende Productions and Flameflower Studios
Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder
24 Fri 68 re-entry
25 Sat 53 up
26 Sun 66 down
27 Mon 62 up
28 Tue 47 up
29 Wed 43 up
30 Thu 60 down
2016 Jul 1 Fri 62 down Unknown
2 Sat 77 down
7 Thu 63 re-entry My Dad Wrote A Porno
My Dad Wrote A Porno
8 Fri 68 down
9 Sat 92 down
10 Sun 95 down ITV Sport
ITV Sport
12 Tue 97 re-entry My Dad Wrote A Porno
My Dad Wrote A Porno
13 Wed 62 up
14 Thu 86 down
2017 Dec 18 Mon 62 re-entry
23 Sat 19 re-entry Duolingo
Duolingo Spanish Podcast
24 Sun 17 up
25 Mon 24 down BBC Radio 4
Desert Island Discs
26 Tue 25 down
27 Wed 1 up BBC Radio 4
Best of Today
28 Thu 1 no-move
29 Fri 1 no-move
30 Sat 5 down TED
TED Talks Daily
31 Sun 10 down Unknown
2018 Jan 1 Mon 11 down
2 Tue 7 up
3 Wed 16 down
4 Thu 13 up TED
TED Talks Daily
5 Fri 15 down An improvised comedy about executing an execution.
Capital
6 Sat 11 up
7 Sun 10 up
8 Mon 7 up
9 Tue 10 down TED
TED Talks Daily
10 Wed 15 down BBC World Service
The Assassination
11 Thu 19 down
12 Fri 31 down
13 Sat 32 down Sky Sports
Transfer Talk
14 Sun 39 down BBC Radio 4
Desert Island Discs
15 Mon 42 down BBC Radio 5 live
Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy
16 Tue 47 down
17 Wed 60 down Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show
Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show
18 Thu 63 down
19 Fri 70 down
20 Sat 81 down BBC Radio 4
Rich Hall's Breakdown
21 Sun 96 down
22 Mon 88 up
23 Tue 87 up Dr Chatterjee
Feel Better, Live More
24 Wed 76 up
25 Thu 77 down
26 Fri 83 down
27 Sat 80 up
2018 Feb 2 Fri 64 re-entry Parcast Network
Conspiracy Theories
2018 Apr 11 Wed 84 re-entry SamFry Ltd
Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years
12 Thu 94 down Stephen Fry | SamFry Ltd
Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years
13 Fri 91 re-entry
14 Sat 99 down
2018 Jul 11 Wed 75 re-entry ITV
Love Island: The Morning After
2018 Oct 28 Sun 99 re-entry Football Daily
Sunday Vibes: Extra Time
30 Tue 80 re-entry Joe Rogan
The Joe Rogan Experience
2018 Nov 4 Sun 75 re-entry BBC World Service
Witness
5 Mon 63 up Richard Nicholls
The Richard Nicholls Podcast - Motivate Yourself

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