Guitar hero Live gets new tracks. Activision detail most played Christmas songs!

Guitar Hero Live has been something of a success and today, not only have Activision and FreeStyleGames announced a few new tracks, but they’ve also dropped details regarding the most played songs from the last few weeks. It makes for some interesting reading.

Arriving this week, GHTV has continued to add in a few new playable songs. Two new Premium Shows are in place to to whet your rock appetite, including Festival Anthems and New Rock Revolution, as well as an extension of The Dead Weather’s three playable songs from their live performance in Nashville. Details as follows:

• Festival Anthems – The Killers – Mr. Brightside; Biffy Clyro – Black Chandelier; Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
• New Rock Revolution – Don Broco – Priorities; Lower Than Atlantis – English Kids in America; Mallory Knox – When Are We Waking Up?

But the really interesting news regards those songs that have been played the most in the UK over the Christmas and New Year period. Have you helped to contribute to the following list?

Guitar Hero Live: Top 20 Songs Played On Demand in the UK over Christmas and New Year

1. Tribute – Tenacious D
2. American Idiot – Green Day
3. Sing – Ed Sheeran
4. The Lazy Song – Bruno Mars
5. All the Small Things – Blink-182
6. I Want to Break Free – Queen
7. Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon
8. B.Y.O.B. – System of a Down
9. Let Her Go – Passenger
10. Nightmare (Live) – Avenged Sevenfold
11. Before I Forget – Slipknot
12. Hold Back the River – James Bay
13. Budapest – George Ezra
14. Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
15. Feel so Close – Calvin Harris
16. Stacy’s Mom – Fountains of Wayne
17. Sugar, We’re Goin Down – Fall Out Boy
18. Chop Suey! – System of a Down
19. Tears Don’t Fall – Bullet For My Valentine
20. Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes

Additionally, the team has announced the top 20 songs that were played most often in GHTV. The below list represents the top 20 songs played globally in GHTV’s channels, On Demand and via Premium Shows, from 24th December through to 3rd January.

1. I Gotsta Get Paid – ZZ Top
2. Best Day of My Life – American Authors
3. Tribute – Tenacious D
4. Epic – Faith No More
5. Rollin’ and Tumblin’ – The Gaslight Anthem
6. Jekyll and Hyde – Five Finger Death Punch
7. Diamond Eyes – Deftones
8. Break the Cycle – Motionless in White
9. Tears Don’t Fall – Bullet For My Valentine
10. Broken Generation – Of Mice & Men
11. More Than A Feeling – Boston
12. Stacy’s Mom – Fountains of Wayne
13. Cult of Personality – Living Colour
14. Eyes of a Stranger – Queensryche
15. Buddy Holly – Weezer
16. Cowboys from Hell – Pantera
17. The Lazy Song – Bruno Mars
18. Down with the Sickness – Disturbed
19. Time To Pretend – MGMT
20. Always with Me, Always with You – Joe Satriani