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The Hall of Fame 2016: the facts and figures behind the world's biggest poll of classical music
Get all the stats and facts from this year's countdown, from the highest climber to the biggest faller…
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1. Hall of Fame 2016 stats gallery
Hall of Fame 2016 stats gallery
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2. The Lord of the Rings is this year's highest film score
Hall of Fame 2016 stats gallery
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3. This year's biggest faller…
Grant Kirkhope's music for Viva Piñata was this year's biggest faller.
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4. The race for No.1 over the years
Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending rose from an initial chart position of 18 in 1996 to take the No.1 spot this year.
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5. The highest placed opera
Mascagni's only regularly performed work is this year's highest placed opera – but it's there, ironically, because of the famous orchestral intermezzo.
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6. How old were the people who voted in this year's chart?
A chart showing the ages of the voters in this year's Hall of Fame
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7. The highest new entry in this year's chart is…
The soundtrack to Shenmue is this year's highest new entry.
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8. Which was this year's highest climber?
Ronald Binge's The Watermill soars up the chart
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9. Final Fantasy is the highest video game entry
Uematsu's soundtrack makes it into the top 20, for the fifth year in a row
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10. The male/female split among Hall of Fame voters
Finding out a bit more about the people who vote in the Hall of Fame
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11. The highest placed ballet
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is the highest placed ballet – as it was in the 2015 Hall of Fame too.
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12. Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto
For the third year in a row Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 lost out on the top spot to Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending.
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13. Brahms' glorious Alto Rhapsody re-enters the chart at No.218
Brahms' glorious Alto Rhapsody re-enters the chart at No.218
