Those are the iconic pips, not a countdown. You can trace those all the way back through to 1924 on BBC Radio. 6 pips that signal the hour. I listened to an interview with the composer of the current BBC News theme, and his breakdown of his creation was really interesting.
It truly is exhilarating. So much so, I've sometimes found myself getting emotional about all the achievements of the BBC when it's aired, especially when they play the sequence where they show journalists in war zones.
Iconic. Still so fresh after all the years. When is was travelling around the world for work, this gave me goosebumps thinking about my family back home. Paramount pictures’ intro also makes me feel the same.
The best of British brilliance. I had sense a special warm inner feeling when ever I'd herd this intro theme whilst traveling in numerous countries in the 1990's and beyond.
Fascinating to see the musicians behind this theme tune. I didn't realise how many orchestral instruments were used; I assumed it was mainly synthesized. It's evolved over 22 years and potentially could be around for a long time still, now it is so well recognised as the sound of BBC News. I cannot help thinking it would be suitable to introduce a declaration of martial law!
I don’t miss this each day. Immediately it’s 60-90secs to a bbc news, I’d reach for the tv just to listen to this countdown. Now I have the whole 60sec download to my phone for my listening pleasure. With love from Nigeria.
I've always really liked the introduction music to the BBC News, so decided to find out how it was produced. I was totally taken aback by the beautiful orchestra they all were amazing each and every one of them not to mention the composer. I really hope this introduction will carry on for many years. Sometimes you just take things for granted don't you!!
What a magnificent composition! Grew up watching BBC news daily, dad told me it was the best way to learn English, as he did the same. And he was correct.
As a Canadian who checked his watch to the Greenwich Mean Time broadcast on CBC (from the BBC) i am astonished at what the composer has achieved. It is brilliant in every way possible to imagine.
The BBC News Intro Music is Really catchy & Iconic My Dad turns on the TV specifically at that time of the Day where they play the Music. Its truly joyful and Poppy. Whoever thought of that, those Artists are amazing & genius. _Love from India 🙌 Love England_ _Love our World 🙌_
So I listened to this over and over until I got a sequence from it. 1. This sound track is exactly 60 seconds long 2. The beeping sounds that starts is actually counting seconds 3. The tone of the beep intensifies in the last 10 seconds to signify near end or like a bomb counter that's about to end. Very brilliant guys... Very brilliant.
The beeps go back to shortwave radio, which was used each second until the top of the hour. Some shortwave signals are merely time counters, and it always changes the beep to a higher pitch in the last 5-10 seconds before the hour. The BBC took a classic signal and made it a master piece here. Although I never knew an actual orchestra ever attempted this, it was originally a purely electronic/trance oriented theme back in the day. Of course even here the beeps and some of the instrumentals were still electro, but its a good remake for sure.
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The composer deserves a Grammy. It’s so exhilarating. The countdown beeps give a sense of urgency.
Those are the iconic pips, not a countdown. You can trace those all the way back through to 1924 on BBC Radio. 6 pips that signal the hour.
I listened to an interview with the composer of the current BBC News theme, and his breakdown of his creation was really interesting.
@@spanglelime David Lowe
David Lowe interview: ruclips.net/video/JCAnM6yIqJk/видео.html
@@spanglelime They may be called pips, but it's still a countdown
It truly is exhilarating. So much so, I've sometimes found myself getting emotional about all the achievements of the BBC when it's aired, especially when they play the sequence where they show journalists in war zones.
The one who wrote this theme is genius.
idk just checked all music that is original and the creator will be in the description
its david lowe
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yeah
it's david lowe
Whoever wrote this is a master of music and has such great taste
He has master the art of presenting headlines tune
David Lowe is his name,right.dont know if I spell his last name right
After a year, I still absolutely love this masterpiece!
@@connorcornwall1404yes you did right, it “is” in fact “David Lowe”
Hans Zimmer been real quiet since this dropped
hahaha
These guys need to hold a concert somewhere, this is shear brilliance
ThanQ for showing the people behind this beautiful piece. I'd attend if they had a concert.
I would too!
With 1 song, only. But yeah, i’d sit there and watch them perform it
@@meol0390 Laugh out very loud. I'm sure their repertoire is vast though.
@@JohnSmith2906 Thanks man.
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My late husband . Worked in the electronic media too. Loved this music. Brings memories of my Desmond.
I hope you are doing fine.
Aggressive and sensational BBC news theme , inviting everyone's attention towards news. Hats off to the composer.
I will never listen to this piece of music the same way again!!
Iconic. Still so fresh after all the years. When is was travelling around the world for work, this gave me goosebumps thinking about my family back home. Paramount pictures’ intro also makes me feel the same.
the drummer is mesmerizing.....is why I keep watching this short film.....over and over
احب هذه الموسيقة انها اسطورية وغامضة وتشعرك بالعالم وكوارثه انها حقا افضل موسيقى اخبارية تحية ل bbc من السعودية🇸🇦
I listen to this when fatigued and get energized!
The one news intro that effectively cancels out every other news intros......
The best of British brilliance. I had sense a special warm inner feeling when ever I'd herd this intro theme whilst traveling in numerous countries in the 1990's and beyond.
Why ur pfp is paddy
Such a masterpiece of strings and beats, same as the legendary British Broadcasting Company. Thanks for sharing BBC!
BBC is that best☺️
It's the British Broadcasting Corporation. Not company.
@@lsudx479 it used to be Company before 1922, interestingly
@@MarkPentler Ah! I did not know that. I wonder why they changed it.
@@lsudx479 The company was liquidated and became the corporation.
Such a huge fan of this theme. I think the obsession I have for this theme is borderline unhealthy…
Much love from India
So true. But you gotta admit Aaj Tak has the most Indian theme ever made
@@dinkarfowkar999DD!
You should also look up this tune they made for the BBC called Perfect Day. Makes me cry every time.
Me, too❤!!!!
Fascinating to see the musicians behind this theme tune. I didn't realise how many orchestral instruments were used; I assumed it was mainly synthesized. It's evolved over 22 years and potentially could be around for a long time still, now it is so well recognised as the sound of BBC News. I cannot help thinking it would be suitable to introduce a declaration of martial law!
i think it was synthesized but this is a true orchestral
ugh my comment got yeeted but i think it was synthesized but this is an actual orchestral version of the theme
Stayed up late one night and heard this piece of music. Absolute genius, excellent composition. Love it
This is the best theme ever. I used to watch BBC as a kid and feel it is at least 100 times better than our Indian news channels.
The music is so detailed & deep than the news itself 😂😂😂
It is just the best news theme ever produced. Authoritive and dramatic.♥️
I don’t miss this each day. Immediately it’s 60-90secs to a bbc news, I’d reach for the tv just to listen to this countdown.
Now I have the whole 60sec download to my phone for my listening pleasure.
With love from Nigeria.
BBC’s countdown music will never get old 🎉
This theme is my 2021 ringtone 😍😍 Nowadays I don't receive calls instantly as I have to dance to the tune for a while 🥰🥰
How did you get it as ringtone please? I need same. Any link?
Absolutely brilliant music I'd love to hear it live. Thank you.
This is the classiest thing you will ever hear! Hats off to you guys for pulling this off
Such brilliance. A masterpiece of a news theme countdown 👏👏👏
Extremely delighted theme, the orchestra team excellent, who had composed this, he must be orchestra genius, salute to him.
Love the theme--the best of all news programme themes!
I love this news theme.Very beautifully composed. KUDOS to the composers and performers ☆
Everyone is so focussed in making the greatest tune of our generation.
Addicted.......❤️
This gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it. This is genius,
The composer of the century this rythm is just entrinsic for such good years even the beats are amazing such professionals
I've always really liked the introduction music to the BBC News, so decided to find out how it was produced. I was totally taken aback by the beautiful orchestra they all were amazing each and every one of them not to mention the composer. I really hope this introduction will carry on for many years. Sometimes you just take things for granted don't you!!
Masterpiece of beats by David lowe, A genius composition ❤
i watch the news and i did not relies how much effort it takes to make the music amazing
Its giving me the goosebumps and I love it. This guy deserves everything the world has to offer. That was a master peace 😎
chatGPT would never write a piece like this
Of course it can't because it's text based AI.
Listening to this almost always uplifts my mood, I start tapping my feet with a smile on my face!
2023 here, and Still amazed by this master piece
I just used to watch the BBC news every one hour for this countdown music
The best music I’ve heard ever 😍🥰
This theme tells me something important is happening but also various things are occuring at the same time.
كم جميل الاستماع إلى هاته الموسيقى....كلما اعيدها اجد فيها تجدد
Wonderful music.. refreshing and soothing..
This was the only news that I actually watched when I was 14 all because of the countdown soundtrack 😊
I could listen to this over and over ...makes me proud to be British
Amazing theme, can’t stop listening to it. Pure genius.
Say whatever you want about the mainstream media these days, but this opening theme is literally the best of any news organization on earth.
0:28
BBC- How many times do you want to listen to this???
Me - yes
This theme music could not be any more satisfying! And it's a perfect 60 beeps per minute :)
This emotional transitional taste of BBC. Phenomenal rhythm, magnificent British exell.
I love the theme music to the BBC News and the arrangements...
Came here after that insta video, banger 😄
Sadly its the only thing left worth actually listening to from the BBC.
What a magnificent composition! Grew up watching BBC news daily, dad told me it was the best way to learn English, as he did the same. And he was correct.
Gives me goose bumps every time, it's a work of genius.❤️
This composition captures the Heartbeat of the Universe. Regards from Fiji. 2022
Genuinely though was done with a synth! To see it being done with an orchestra is awesome!
BBC dropping them beats before announcing 7 children dying in a car accident
The Best
I'm Japanese.
This sound is so cool, it conveys so much urgency!
I want to make it my cell phone ringtone!☺️
No really urgency, but it like a ekg of life or a counting of time pasting...
@@mcsuccess08
Japan is a country with a lot of earthquakes, so this is a wonderful sound that makes you feel the weight of life.
Honestly? This is an absolute banger
Brings back my childhood in Nigeria many years ago
Just flawless
Every morning I listen this to gt my day started
0:23 does he got paid just for this asmuch as them, he must be the luckiest one
I am daily hear this news countdown music many times,but today only understand how these musicians behind the screen to scored masterly.thank you BBC.
As a Canadian who checked his watch to the Greenwich Mean Time broadcast on CBC (from the BBC) i am astonished at what the composer has achieved. It is brilliant in every way possible to imagine.
This gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it.
My childhood sent me here
I don’t know why everytime I listen to this it gives me goosebumps such cool track
This music keeps our mind and heart more interesting to hear BBC news, Praise the Lord
Magnificient melodious news theme..Very Impressive.
Mesmeric!!!
Definitely a masterpiece
Love this theme...❤️
Brilliant composition n heart racing music , cheers from a huge fan from INDIA 🌹❤️
Masterpiece
amazing !
Absolutely brilliant, extra ordinary work, 👏👌😀👍, hats off the mastreo who created this gem, PERFECTLY MATCHING TO OUR WORLD SITUATION
I feel the goosebumps....
Amazing
It's giving me the goosebumps...what a master piece 🍻
SO COOL!! Best TV news theme ever.
Unmatched, speechless...
Adding up to blood circulation
Reminds me of the beautiful days in Isle of mann many years before...wish I could go again to visit that cute island!!
Love this
I love the BBC song listen to it every day very classy very British
The BBC News Intro Music is Really catchy & Iconic
My Dad turns on the TV specifically at that time of the Day where they play the Music.
Its truly joyful and Poppy.
Whoever thought of that, those Artists are amazing & genius.
_Love from India 🙌 Love England_
_Love our World 🙌_
Fantastic
Dropping them sick beats before reporting a kindergarten schoolbus with no survivors.
Wow! Had stopped seeing much of bbc since the ott came along. Missed this music.
Hauntingly beautiful and captivating🔥💥💯
Absolutely brilliant 💯👌🏾
this composition is amazing
It has motion, it has tension, it soars as it builds. And the composition is exquisite
And it has a release at the end! :))))))))))
Like a huge ORGASM, right???
Lies again? Sistic Official Soundtrack
So I listened to this over and over until I got a sequence from it.
1. This sound track is exactly 60 seconds long
2. The beeping sounds that starts is actually counting seconds
3. The tone of the beep intensifies in the last 10 seconds to signify near end or like a bomb counter that's about to end.
Very brilliant guys... Very brilliant.
It's the Greenwich beeps, a tradition going back to 1920s British radio.
Would there have been that Promo without those beeps...?.
The beeps go back to shortwave radio, which was used each second until the top of the hour. Some shortwave signals are merely time counters, and it always changes the beep to a higher pitch in the last 5-10 seconds before the hour. The BBC took a classic signal and made it a master piece here. Although I never knew an actual orchestra ever attempted this, it was originally a purely electronic/trance oriented theme back in the day. Of course even here the beeps and some of the instrumentals were still electro, but its a good remake for sure.
This is because that this is a news countdown song.
Big brain notices a musical piece used for a news countdown does things used in a news countdown.
I watch BBC news because of this.
Same
Sameeeeeeee
Same here, and after the countdown its headlines also.
SAME
❤❤