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Word In Your Ear
by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
Today: #3 in Music, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #62 in Music, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #12 in Music, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #8 in Music, Ireland on our combined chart.
Chart positions today · United States
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Ranking history · United States
Latest daily rankings: Oct 27. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Recent history only — this show has no current ranking on the Music chart. These are recorded positions from the last 14 days, not current rankings.
Position on the Music combined chart over the last 14 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
Episode releases
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | — | — |
| Oct 23 | #190 | #166 |
| Oct 21 | #170 | #148 |
| Oct 20 | — | #181 |
| Oct 18 | #176 | #153 |
| Oct 16 | #173 | #151 |
| Oct 15 | #183 | #160 |
| Oct 14 | #190 | #166 |
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About the show
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.
Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience.
Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com.
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