Radio Play History

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More than 14,000 logged radio plays, with enough stats, Top Tens and archive rabbit holes to keep you busy for a while.

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14K+logged plays

14,292Radio plays

7,345Different tracks

3,207Artists

10Shows

5Years in the archive

2,278Plays in 2026

4,713Tracks played once

51.4%Unique-track rate

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James Brown

Total plays14

Different songs8

Last played17 May 2026

Most played onSunday Specials

Most played James Brown songs

Living in America3 Papa's Got A Brand New Bag3 Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine2 I Got You (I Feel Good)2 Sex Machine1 It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World1 Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud)1 Living In America - From Rocky IV1

PLAY HISTORY

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14 matches

Date	Artist	Track	Show	Episode
17 May 2026	James Brown	Living in America	Verso's Sunday Roast	Living in America
25 Apr 2026	James Brown	Sex Machine	The Saturday Show	Fleetwood Mac Covers
29 Mar 2026	James Brown	It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World	Verso's Sunday Roast	The Singers - The Songs
11 Jan 2026	James Brown	Living in America	Verso's Sunday Roast	1986
15 Nov 2025	James Brown	Papa's Got A Brand New Bag	The Saturday Show	I'm a Celebrity
13 Apr 2025	James Brown	Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine	Verso's Sunday Roast	Verso's Birthday - 1970
5 Jan 2025	James Brown	Papa's Got A Brand New Bag	Sunday Specials	2025-01-05 New
1 Dec 2024	James Brown	Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud)	Sunday Specials	Rosa Parks
5 May 2024	James Brown	Living In America - From Rocky IV	Other Radio Bits	80s Movies
10 Mar 2024	James Brown	Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine	Sunday Specials	Greatest Songs Writers - Part 3
12 Oct 2023	James Brown	I Got You (I Feel Good)	The Sensational 60s	Show 6 - October 12th 2023
1 Oct 2023	James Brown	Papa's Got A Brand New Bag	Sunday Specials	The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time - Part 1
1 Oct 2023	James Brown	I Got You (I Feel Good)	Sunday Specials	The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time - Part 1
19 Jan 2023	James Brown	Living in America	Verso's Classic Charts	Episode 01 - Jan 19th 1986

ARCHIVE SPAN

27 Jan 2022 to 5 Sep 2026

14,176 plays have an exact broadcast date. A small number of filler specials remain deliberately undated.

BUSIEST YEAR

2024

4,194 logged plays.

BUSIEST SHOW

The Saturday Show

4,783 logged plays.

Most played artistThe Beatles191 plays

Most played trackI Don't Like MondaysThe Boomtown Rats · 23 plays

Repeat plays6,947plays beyond each track's first appearance

Heavy rotation106tracks played 10+ times

Regular artists123artists played 20+ times

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Because four headline numbers were never going to be enough.

Average rotation1.95plays per different track

Catalogue depth2.29different tracks per artist

Widest catalogueThe Beatles76 different songs played

Across the yearsThe Rolling Stonesheard in 5 archive years

Across the showsThe Beatlesplayed on 10 different shows

Most travelled trackGod Only KnowsThe Beach Boys · 7 shows

Busiest calendar monthAugust1,381 dated plays

YEAR BY YEAR

The archive growing up

5 years represented

20262,278 plays

20253,394 plays

20244,194 plays

20233,335 plays

20221,091 plays

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