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Badly Drawn Boy

Badly Drawn Boy is a person from Manchester, active since 1969.

Person Manchester since 1969 indie rock indie folk indie pop
TOTAL PLAYS
1,476
SONGS PLAYED
96
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-17 13:57 · 6 Music — "Born Again"
LAST PLAYED
1 week ago · 6 Music — "All Possibilities"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
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 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,055 71%
Radio 2 387 26%
Radio 1 34 2%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 01:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Once Around the Block 190 2025-11-28
2 All Possibilities 181 2026-05-14
3 Something To Talk About 159 2026-05-10
4 Silent Sigh 103 2025-10-16
5 Disillusion 58 2025-07-20
6 You Were Right 55 2024-10-04
7 Donna and Blitzen 51 2025-12-20
8 Promises 49 2023-02-28
9 A Journey From A To B 46 2015-11-17
10 I Need Someone To Trust 41 2020-06-26
11 Born Again 40 2024-06-18
12 Too Many Miracles 40 2016-12-23
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-14 06:34 All Possibilities 6 Music
2026-05-10 02:05 Something To Talk About 6 Music
2026-05-04 00:13 Welcome To The Overground 6 Music
2026-05-03 23:00 Camping Next to Water 6 Music
2026-05-03 13:18 Welcome To The Overground 6 Music
2026-05-03 12:00 Camping Next to Water 6 Music
2025-12-24 22:36 Something To Talk About Radio 2
2025-12-20 04:52 Donna and Blitzen 6 Music
2025-12-20 02:37 Something To Talk About Radio 2
2025-12-18 12:51 Something To Talk About 6 Music
2025-12-18 05:56 Donna and Blitzen 6 Music
2025-12-17 18:33 Donna and Blitzen 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

96 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
40 Days 40 Fights — 1 ▶
40 Days, 40 Fights — 1 ▶
A Journey From A To B — 46 ▶
A Journey From A To B (Live Track) — 1 ▶
A Journey From A To B (Live) Mercurys — 1 ▶
A Minor Incident — 4 ▶
A minor Incident (About A Boy) — 1 ▶
Above You Below Me — 1 ▶
All Possibilities — 181 ▶
Another Pearl — 9 ▶
Appletree Boulevard (6 Music Session, 29 January 2024) — 1 ▶
Appletree Boulevard (Radio 2 Sofa Session, 5 August 2020) — 1 ▶
Banana Skin Shoes — 9 ▶
Born Again — 40 ▶
Born In The UK — 29 ▶
Camping Next to Water — 5 ▶
Cause a Rockslide — 1 ▶
Copy Of Silent Sigh - Glastonbury 2004 — 1 ▶
Degree Of Seperation - Hub Session 05/10/2006 — 1 ▶
Disillusion — 58 ▶
Donna and Blitzen — 51 ▶
Donna And Blitzen (6 Music Session, 19 Dec 2014) — 1 ▶
Donna Und Blitzen — 14 ▶
Everybody's Stalking — 1 ▶
Feeling Good - Witness Festival 2002 — 2 ▶
Fly On The Wall — 7 ▶
Four Leaf Clover (Glastonbury 2004) — 1 ▶
Four Leaf Clover - Glastonbury 2004 — 17 ▶
Have Yo Fed The Fish Today - Glastonbury 2004 — 6 ▶
Have You Fed The Fish Today - Glastonbury 2004 — 10 ▶
Have You Fed the Fish? — 1 ▶
Have You Fed the Fish? (Glastonbury 2004) — 1 ▶
I Love N.Y.E. — 1 ▶
I Need Someone To Trust — 41 ▶
I Saw You Walk Away — 5 ▶
I'll Keep it With Mine (6 Music Session, 29 January 2024) — 1 ▶
I'm Not Sure What It Is — 2 ▶
Is There Nothing We Could Do? — 25 ▶
Is This A Dream — 18 ▶
Is This a Dream? — 25 ▶
It Came From the Ground — 1 ▶
Journey From A To B — 1 ▶
Journey From A To B (Radio 2 Session, 18 Jun 2007) — 1 ▶
Magic in the Air — 21 ▶
My Friend Cubilas — 1 ▶
Never Change — 2 ▶
Never Change (Radio 2 Sofa Session, 5 August 2020) — 1 ▶
Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind — 1 ▶
Nothings Going To Change Your Mind — 2 ▶
Nothings gonna change your mind — 18 ▶
Once Around the Block — 190 ▶
Once Around the Block (6 Music Session, 29 January 2024) — 1 ▶
Once Around the Block (Glastonbury 2004) — 1 ▶
Once Around The Block - Glastonbury 2004 — 6 ▶
Once Around The Block - Pete Mitchell Session 02/03/2008 — 1 ▶
Once Around the Block <Live Lounge> — 1 ▶
Once Around The Clock - Glastonbury 2004 — 6 ▶
One Last Dance (Radio 2 Session, 18 Jun 2007) — 1 ▶
One Plus One is One (Glastonbury 2004) — 1 ▶
One Plus One Is One - Glastonbury 2004 — 13 ▶
P***ing In The Wind — 3 ▶
Pi**ing In The Wind — 1 ▶
Promises — 49 ▶
Promises (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
Promises (Radio 2 Session, 18 Jun 2007) — 2 ▶
Promisies - Hub Session 05/10/2006 — 1 ▶
River, Sea, Ocean — 1 ▶
Silent Sigh — 103 ▶
Silent Sigh (Glastonbury 2004) — 1 ▶
Silent Sigh (Radio 2 Sofa Session, 5 August 2020) — 1 ▶
Silent Sigh - Glastonbury 2004 — 13 ▶
Something To Talk About — 159 ▶
Spitting in the Wind — 13 ▶
Stone on the Water — 4 ▶
The Degrees Of Seperation (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
The Long Way Round — 1 ▶
The Shining — 36 ▶
The Time Of Times — 40 ▶
TheTime Of Times — 1 ▶
This Electric — 1 ▶
This Electric - 6 Music Session 04/10/2010 — 1 ▶
This is That New Song (6 Music Session, 29 January 2024) — 2 ▶
Time Of Times — 2 ▶
Tony Wilson Said — 7 ▶
Too Many Miracles — 40 ▶
Too Many Miracles - 6 Music Session 04/10/2010 — 1 ▶
Walk You Home — 1 ▶
Walkman Demo — 1 ▶
Welcome To The Overground — 3 ▶
Year of the Rat — 2 ▶
Year Of The Rat — 3 ▶
Year of the Rat (Glastonbury 2004) — 1 ▶
Year Of The Rat - Glastonbury 2004 — 17 ▶
You Were Right — 55 ▶
You Were Right (Glastonbury 2004) — 1 ▶
You Were Right - Glastonbury 2004 — 15 ▶