The Global Countdown

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The Global Countdown episodes

July 30 The summer is magic: A collection of sunny songs
Fernando Augusto Pacheco celebrates summer with five songs to add to your beach, lake or poolside playlist this season.
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9 min
July 23 The summery Spanish charts
Fernando Augusto Pacheco heads to Spain to hear the summer’s top songs, including Quevedo’s ode to the island of La Graciosa.
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8 min
July 16 The Global Countdown’s World Cup final: Which country’s music will come out on top?
Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here with the final instalment of our World Cup of music. But between South Korea, Turkey, Côte d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Argentina and Colombia, which nation will strike the right chord?

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12 min
July 09 World Cup special: Groups K and L
Monocle Radio’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here with the sixth instalment of ‘The Global Countdown’ World Cup special. It’s a battle for the number ones of Portugal, DR Congo, Uzbekistan, Colombia, England and Ghana.
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10 min
July 02 World Cup special: Groups I and J
Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here with the fifth instalment of our World Cup special. It’s a battle of the number ones between France, Senegal, Norway and Argentina.
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9 min
June 25 World Cup special: Groups G and H
Monocle Radio's Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here with the fourth instalment of The Global Countdown World Cup special. It's a battle for the number ones of Egypt, Cape Verde, Spain and Uruguay.
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8 min
June 18 World Cup special: Groups E and F
Monocle Radio’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here with the third instalment in our World Cup special. It’s a battle for the number ones of Côte d’Ivoire, the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and Tunisia.
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10 min
June 11 World Cup special: Groups C and D
Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here with whistle in hand to oversee a battle of number ones between Brazil, Morocco, Turkey and the US.
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8 min
June 04 World Cup special: Groups A and B
Fernando Augusto Pacheco is here to kick off our World Cup 2026 special as the number ones from Mexico, South Korea, Czechia, Canada, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, go head to head.
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8 min
May 28 What's on Namibia’s music charts?
Monocle Radio's Fernando Augusto Pacheco looks at what's topping the music charts in Namibia.
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8 min

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