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A Certain Ratio

A Certain Ratio is a group from the UK, active since 1977.

Group GB since 1977 post-punk new wave funk
TOTAL PLAYS
639
SONGS PLAYED
136
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-03-21 18:57 · 6 Music — "Shack Up"
LAST PLAYED
6 months ago · 6 Music — "All Comes Down To This (6 Music Session, 17 Apr 2024)"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2025
200 150 100 50 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 632 99%
Radio 1 3 0%
Radio 2 2 0%
1Xtra 2 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Shack Up 196 2025-10-20
2 Samo 47 2023-07-07
3 All Comes Down to This 40 2024-07-12
4 Afro Dizzy (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi) 35 2023-07-09
5 All Night Party 19 2022-12-15
6 Flight 17 2023-01-05
7 Afro Dizzy 13 2025-03-23
8 Do the Du 11 2025-03-27
9 Keep It Together 11 2022-01-02
10 Houses In Motion 10 2022-01-24
11 Flight (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 1 Oct 1979) 9 2020-10-22
12 Scipscada - BBC Session 29/06/1981 9 2010-10-12
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-11-07 13:54 All Comes Down To This (6 Music Session, 17 Apr 2024) 6 Music
2025-11-01 15:12 Estate Kings (Number Rework) 6 Music
2025-10-20 09:46 Shack Up 6 Music
2025-09-20 05:59 Shack Up 6 Music
2025-08-19 11:51 Shack Up 6 Music
2025-08-07 21:09 The Choir (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) 6 Music
2025-08-06 21:51 Flight (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) 6 Music
2025-08-05 20:23 Do the Du (Casse) (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) 6 Music
2025-08-04 21:38 All Night Party (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) 6 Music
2025-06-12 04:24 All Comes Down To This (6 Music Session, 17 Apr 2024) 6 Music
2025-05-24 20:06 Shack Up (Electronic Remix) 6 Music
2025-04-24 13:33 Shack Up 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

136 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
1982 — 1 ▶
1982 (6 Music session, 12th April 2023) — 1 ▶
Afro Dizzy — 13 ▶
Afro Dizzy (6 Music session, 12th April 2023) — 1 ▶
Afro Dizzy (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi) — 35 ▶
All Comes Down to This — 40 ▶
All Comes Down To This (6 Music Session, 17 Apr 2024) — 5 ▶
All Comes Down to This (6 Music Session, 17th April, 2024) — 2 ▶
All Night Party — 19 ▶
All Night Party (John Peel Session - 10/01/1979) — 1 ▶
All Night Party (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) — 2 ▶
All We Need — 1 ▶
Always In Love — 4 ▶
Always in Love (Skream Remix) — 1 ▶
And Then Again (6 Music session for Marc Riley 111217) — 2 ▶
And Then Again_Riley Session_111217 — 1 ▶
Atmosphere Sings — 1 ▶
Ballad of ACR — 1 ▶
Be What You Wanna Be — 1 ▶
Below the Canal — 3 ▶
Berlin — 1 ▶
Berlin (Cosmodelica Remix) — 1 ▶
Berlin (feat. Denise Johnson) — 2 ▶
Blown Away — 1 ▶
Bootsy — 1 ▶
Bootsy (Swingfire Mix) — 1 ▶
Bouncy Bouncy — 1 ▶
Bouncy Bouncy (Chop & Drop LoneLady Mix) — 1 ▶
Clockwork Orange — 5 ▶
Constant Curve (6 Music session, 12th April 2023) — 1 ▶
Crystall (6 Music Session, 20th Nov 2018) — 2 ▶
Day One BBC Session 29/06/1981 — 1 ▶
Day One - BBC Session 29/06/1981 — 5 ▶
Dirty Boy — 3 ▶
Dirty Boy (6 Music session 201118 ) — 1 ▶
Dirty Boy (6 Music Session, 20th Nov 2018) — 1 ▶
Dirty Boy (Chris Massey Mix) (feat. Barry Adamson) — 2 ▶
Dirty Boy (Massey Mix) — 1 ▶
Do The Do (With Cass) — 6 ▶
Do The Do (With Cass) (John Peel Session - 10/01/1979) — 1 ▶
Do The Do (With Cass) (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) — 4 ▶
Do The Do (With Cass) - BBC Session 01/10/1979 — 1 ▶
Do the Du — 11 ▶
Do The Du (6 Music session for Marc Riley 111217) — 3 ▶
Do The Du (Casse) — 5 ▶
Do the Du (Casse) (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) — 1 ▶
Dorothy Says — 1 ▶
Dorothy Says (6 Music Session, 17th April, 2024) — 1 ▶
Down & Dirty (Mr Dan Remix) — 3 ▶
Down and Dirty — 1 ▶
Down and Dirty (Mr Dan Remix) — 3 ▶
Downtown Vibes — 1 ▶
Dubwork Orange — 1 ▶
Emperor Machine — 2 ▶
Emperor Machine (ACR vs. The Emperor Machine) — 1 ▶
Emperor Machine (feat. The Emperor Machine) — 1 ▶
Estate Kings (Number Rework) — 1 ▶
Family — 3 ▶
Flight — 17 ▶
Flight (6 Music session 201118 ) — 1 ▶
Flight (6 Music Session, 20th Nov 2018) — 2 ▶
Flight (John Peel Session - 10/01/1979) — 1 ▶
Flight (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 1 Oct 1979) — 9 ▶
Flight (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) — 3 ▶
Flight - BBC Session 01/10/1979 — 2 ▶
God Knows — 1 ▶
Good Together — 2 ▶
Gum — 2 ▶
Guv'nor — 2 ▶
Holy Smoke — 1 ▶
Houses In Motion — 10 ▶
Houses In Motion (Demo Version 1) — 1 ▶
Houses In Motion (Single Version) — 1 ▶
I Need Someone Tonight — 1 ▶
I Need Someone Tonite — 1 ▶
I Won't Stop Loving You (feat. Bernard Sumner) — 1 ▶
It All Comes Down to This — 5 ▶
Keep it Real — 4 ▶
Keep it Real (6 Music Session, 17th April, 2024) — 2 ▶
Keep it Real (Single Version) — 1 ▶
Keep It Together — 11 ▶
Knife Slits Water — 4 ▶
Knife Slits Water BBC Session 29/06/1981 — 1 ▶
Knife Slits Water - 7" Version — 1 ▶
Knife Slits Water - BBC Session 29/06/1981 — 4 ▶
Life's a Scream — 1 ▶
Loss — 1 ▶
Lucinda — 4 ▶
Mickey Way — 3 ▶
Mickey Way (6 Music session 191118 ) — 1 ▶
Mickey Way (6 Music Session, 20th Nov 2018) — 1 ▶
Musik Kontrol — 1 ▶
Now & Laughter — 2 ▶
Now and Laughter — 1 ▶
Piu Lento - BBC Session 20/11/1982 — 1 ▶
Salvador's Fish — 1 ▶
Samba 123 (Fila Brazillia remix) — 1 ▶
Samo — 47 ▶
SAMO (6 Music session, 12th April 2023) — 1 ▶
SAMO (Werkha Remix) — 2 ▶
Scipscada BBC Session 29/06/1981 — 1 ▶
Scipscada - BBC Session 29/06/1981 — 9 ▶
Shack Up — 196 ▶
Shack Up (6 Music session for Marc Riley 111217) — 1 ▶
Shack Up (Electronic Remix) — 1 ▶
Shack Up (radio edit) — 1 ▶
Shack Up - 6Music Hub Session Date — 1 ▶
Shack Up - 6Music Session 11/08/2005 — 1 ▶
Si Firmi o Grido — 1 ▶
Sommadub — 1 ▶
Souls in the City (Part 2) — 1 ▶
Souls In The City Pt.2 — 1 ▶
Sounds Like Something Dirty - Riley Session 201118 — 1 ▶
The Big E — 1 ▶
The Choir — 5 ▶
The Choir (John Peel Session 10/01/1979) — 1 ▶
The Choir (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 1 Oct 1979) — 2 ▶
The Choir (Radio 1 Session, 1 Oct 1979) — 3 ▶
The Choir - BBC Session 01/10/1979 — 1 ▶
The Fox — 4 ▶
The Fox (6 Music session for Marc Riley 111217) — 1 ▶
Tier 3 — 1 ▶
Touch - BBC Session 20/11/1982 — 2 ▶
Tumba Rhumba — 1 ▶
Waiting on a Train (feat. Chunky & Ellen Beth Abdi) — 1 ▶
Waterline — 2 ▶
We All Need (6 Music Session, 17th April, 2024) — 1 ▶
What's Wrong — 1 ▶
Where You Coming From — 1 ▶
Who's To Say - BBC Session 20/11/1982 — 2 ▶
Won't Stop Loving You — 1 ▶
Won't Stop Loving you (Bernard Sumner Remix) — 1 ▶
Wonderland — 2 ▶
Yeah Boy (DJ Die remix) — 1 ▶
Yo Yo Gi — 6 ▶
YOYOGRIP (feat. Jacknife Lee & Maria Uzor) — 6 ▶