Leonard Cohen on Russian radio

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There is a site which accumulates the stats of broacasts on Moscow (since Aug 2007) and Petersburg (Dec 2007) radio stations.
Here's all-time chart of LC songs.

1. The Future 3,148
2. Dance Me to the End of Love (1984) 2,019
3. I'm Your Man 1,645
4. In My Secret Life 990

5. Dance Me to the End of Love (1994) 577
6. Waiting for the Miracle 574
7. A Thousand Kisses Deep 564
8. Tacoma Trailer 335
9. First We Take Manhattan 239
10. Everybody Knows (1988) 176
11. Tower of Song 164
12. Be for Real 163
13. That Don't Make It Junk 149

14. Everybody Knows (1994) 81
15. Take This Waltz 78
16. Famous Blue Raincoat 78
17. Here It Is 64
18. I'm Your Man (1994) 54
19. Boogie Street 54
20. By the Rivers Dark 51
21. Hallelujah (1984) 47
22. If It Be Your Will (1994) 43
23. The Partisan 41
24. Bird on the Wire 35
25. The Law 33
26. Story of Isaac 30
27. I'm Your Man (London) 24
28. Who by Fire (1994) 23

Songs from 16 albums were performed, including 4 plays of Show Me the Place (premiered on Nov 26).

4226 – The Future (8 songs)
2316 – I'm Your Man (ALL 8 songs)
2101 – Various Positions (5 songs)
1881 – Ten New Songs (8 songs)
780 – Cohen Live (7 songs)

113 – Songs from a Room (7 songs)
81 – Songs of Love and Hate (3 songs)
39 – Live in London (8 songs)
16 – Songs of Leonard Cohen (9 songs)
8 – Death of a Ladies' Man (3 songs)
8 – More Best of Leonard Cohen (both new songs)
6 – Recent Songs (5 songs)
5 – Dear Heather (3 songs)
4 – New Skin for the Old Ceremony (3 songs)
4 – Old Ideas
2 – Songs from the Road (2 songs)

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Last Sunday: "Show Me the Place" in Boris Grebenshchikov's "Aerostat" show (at Radio Russia).
BG (БГ) is perhaps the most celebrated rock musician in Russia.

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Darkness premiered on Jan 16 morning (radio Silver Rain).

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Third and forth songs from Old Ideas ("new work of the great Canadian bard") on Russian radio -
Amen & Different Sides in Andrey Borisov's "Exotica" (Radio Culture, Feb 4), btw, right after Born to Die.

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The 5th song - Lullaby.
Again Radio Culture, Feb 13 (Mikhail Predtechenskij's "Jetot bezumnyj mir", i. e. "It's a Mad World").

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The 6th song - Going Home.
Premiered at Govorit Moskva ("Moscow Is Speaking") radio station, Feb 26.

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The 7th song - Come Healing.
Premiered at Radio Hermitage, July 11.

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The 8th song - Crazy to Love You.
Premiered at Silver Rain on December 22.
Presented by Vladimir Matetsky, a composer, who presumably stole the melody of Dance Me to the End of Love for his 1985 song Lavanda...

Two Old Ideas still left unaired in Russia: Anyhow and Banjo.

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Last Sunday: "Show Me the Place" in Boris Grebenshchikov's "Aerostat" show (at Radio Russia).
BG (БГ) is perhaps the most celebrated rock musician in Russia.

My Oh My - right now in Aerostat, a Winter Solstice show dedicated to the best albums of 2014.

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Popular Problems // Russian radio premiers:

1) Almost Like the Blues - Sep 12, Radio Culture
2) A Street - Sep 24, Radio 7 "on seven hills"
3) My Oh My - Sep 24, Radio 7
4) You Got Me Singing - Sep 24, Radio 7
5) Slow - Oct 24, Radio Culture
6) Samson in New Orleans - Nov 12, Radio Culture
7) Nevermind - Dec 26, Nashe Podmoskovye (Our Moscow Region)

No known broadcast - Did I Ever Love You & Born in Chains.