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Ben Howard

Ben Howard is a person from the UK, active since 1987.

Person GB since 1987 alternative rock indie folk indie rock
TOTAL PLAYS
2,309
SONGS PLAYED
158
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2011-04-20 19:19 · Radio 2 — "Old Pine"
LAST PLAYED
4 days ago · Radio 1 — "The Wolves"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2011 — 2026
600 450 300 150 0
'11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 1 2,033 88%
Radio 2 175 8%
6 Music 96 4%
1Xtra 5 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 09:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Keep Your Head Up 509 2026-04-28
2 Only Love 356 2026-04-05
3 The Wolves 259 2026-05-17
4 I Forget Where We Were 186 2025-03-25
5 Old Pine 127 2026-01-15
6 The Fear 103 2026-05-01
7 Conrad 89 2018-12-23
8 Oats in the Water 88 2019-11-25
9 What A Day 60 2022-04-06
10 Nica Libres At Dusk 54 2024-06-30
11 Rivers in Your Mouth 45 2015-04-05
12 Small Things 30 2016-05-19
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-17 10:35 The Wolves Radio 1
2026-05-13 11:03 Call Me Maybe (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 8 May 2012) Radio 1
2026-05-01 01:11 The Fear Radio 1
2026-04-28 08:07 Keep Your Head Up Radio 1
2026-04-05 21:45 Only Love Radio 2
2026-03-19 12:01 Call Me Maybe (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 8 May 2012) Radio 1
2026-02-28 05:54 The Fear Radio 1
2026-02-05 12:03 Call Me Maybe (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 8 May 2012) Radio 1
2026-01-27 02:55 The Fear Radio 1
2026-01-15 20:22 Old Pine Radio 2
2026-01-01 23:19 Old Pine Radio 2
2025-12-28 06:04 Only Love Radio 1
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

158 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
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A Boat To An Island On A Wall (Radio 1 Session, 21st May 2018) — 2 ▶
A Boat To an Island On the Wall — 12 ▶
A Boat To An Island On The Wall (Radio 1 Session, 21 May 2018) — 1 ▶
All Is Now Harmed — 2 ▶
All Is Now Harmed (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 2014) — 1 ▶
All Is Now Harmed (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 2 ▶
Am I In Your Light — 1 ▶
Another Friday Night — 6 ▶
Another Friday Night (Live from Introducing Live 2018) — 1 ▶
Ben Howard (Live At Glastonbury 2013) — 1 ▶
Black Flies (Live at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Black Flies (Live From Aberdeen) — 1 ▶
Black Flies (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) — 1 ▶
Burgh Island — 1 ▶
Buzzard — 1 ▶
Call Me Maybe (Live Lounge) — 12 ▶
Call Me Maybe (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 8 May 2012) — 29 ▶
Call Me Maybe (Radio 1 Session, 8th May 2012) — 1 ▶
Call Me Maybe (Radio 1's Live Lounge) — 4 ▶
Conrad — 89 ▶
Conrad (Hybrid Minds Bootleg) — 5 ▶
Conrad (Hybrid Minds Remix) — 4 ▶
Conrad (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 2014) — 1 ▶
Conrad (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 2 ▶
Couldn't Make It Up — 5 ▶
Crowhurst's Meme — 4 ▶
Days of Lantana — 7 ▶
Depth Over Distance — 1 ▶
Diamonds — 3 ▶
End of the Affair — 27 ▶
End Of The Affair (Radio 1 Session 23rd September) — 2 ▶
End of the Affair (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) — 2 ▶
End Of The Affair (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 4 ▶
End Of The Affair - Live On Later (10.10.14) — 1 ▶
Esmerelda — 7 ▶
Evergreen — 1 ▶
Evergreen (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 2014) — 1 ▶
Evergreen (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 1 ▶
Everything — 1 ▶
Far Out — 2 ▶
Figure 8 (Live Lounge Special) — 10 ▶
Figure 8 (Radio 1 Live Lounge Special, 20 Dec 2014) — 1 ▶
Figure 8 (Radio 1 Session) — 1 ▶
Follies Fixture — 4 ▶
Heave Ho — 3 ▶
Hideaway (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 23 Sep 2014) — 11 ▶
Hideaway Radio 1 Session - RX 23/09/2014 — 1 ▶
Highland Drifting — 1 ▶
Hot Heavy Summer — 1 ▶
Hot Heavy Summer (feat. Sylvan Esso) — 9 ▶
I Forget Where We Were — 186 ▶
I Forget Where We Were (Glastonbury 2015) — 1 ▶
I Forget Where We Were (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 21 May 2015) — 1 ▶
I Forget Where We Were (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 23 Sep 2014) — 6 ▶
I Forget Where We Were (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 2014) — 2 ▶
I Forget Where We Were (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) — 3 ▶
I Forget Where We Were (Sofa Session, 05 June 2023) — 2 ▶
I Forget Where We Were Jo Whiley Session 25.09.14 — 1 ▶
I Forgot Where We Were — 1 ▶
I Forgot Where We Were (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 1 ▶
In Dreams — 1 ▶
In Dreams (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 1 ▶
In Dreams (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 2014) — 1 ▶
In Dreams (Radio 2 Live Session) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up — 509 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (BBC Radio 1's Student Tour in Aberdeen) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (BBC Radio 1's Student Tour Live Lounge) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Live @ Glastonbury) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Live At Glastonbury 2013) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Live From Aberdeen) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Live Lounge Special) — 2 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Live Lounge) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Radio 1 Live Lounge Special, 20 Dec 2014) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 12 Dec 2012) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 12th Dec 2012) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up (Radio 1 Session) — 1 ▶
Keep Your Head Up Recorded Live at Greenman Festival 2011 — 1 ▶
Moonraker — 3 ▶
Murmuration (Live From Introducing Live 2018) — 1 ▶
Murmurations — 4 ▶
Nica Libres At Dusk — 54 ▶
Nica Libres At Dusk (Radio 1 Session, 21 May 2018) — 3 ▶
Nica Libres At Dusk (Radio 1 Session, 21st May 2018) — 2 ▶
Oats in the Water — 88 ▶
Oats In The Water (Live Lounge Special) — 2 ▶
Oats In The Water (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) — 3 ▶
Oats In The Water (Zane Lowe Session) — 1 ▶
Old Pine — 127 ▶
Old Pine (Everything Everything Remix) — 3 ▶
Old Pine (Live at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Old Pine (Live At T In The Park 2012) — 1 ▶
Old Pine (Live) — 1 ▶
Old Pine (Peking Duk Remix) — 4 ▶
Old Pine (Saturday Session Archive) — 2 ▶
Old Pine <BBC Session - 01/08/2011> — 2 ▶
Old Pine [Live] — 1 ▶
Only Love — 356 ▶
Only Love (Hackney Branded Track) — 2 ▶
Only Love (Live At Glastonbury 2013) — 2 ▶
Only Love (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 3 ▶
Only Love (Live at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
Only Love (Live At T In The Park 2012) — 1 ▶
Only Love (Live at The Brits 2013) — 2 ▶
Only Love (Live Lounge Special) — 4 ▶
Only Love (Live Lounge) — 3 ▶
Only Love (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 8th July 2012) — 1 ▶
Only Love - Glastonbury - 29/06/2013 — 2 ▶
Only You (Sofa Session, 05 June 2023) — 2 ▶
Out Of The Blue (Radio 1 Live Lounge) — 2 ▶
Promise — 5 ▶
Rivers in Your Mouth — 45 ▶
Rivers In Your Mouth (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) — 4 ▶
Rivers In Your Mouth (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 2 ▶
Rookery — 1 ▶
Rumble Strip — 2 ▶
She Treats Me Well — 1 ▶
She Treats Me Well (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 2014) — 1 ▶
She Treats Me Well (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 2 ▶
Silent Night (Fearne's Christmas Party) — 1 ▶
Silent Night (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 22 Dec 2011) — 4 ▶
Small Things — 30 ▶
Small Things (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 21 May 2015) — 1 ▶
Small Things (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 21st May 2015) — 3 ▶
Small Things (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 23 Sep 2014) — 3 ▶
Small Things (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) — 3 ▶
Small Things (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 2 ▶
Sorry Kid — 10 ▶
The Burren — 1 ▶
The Defeat (Live from Tobacco Dock - BBC Introducing Live 2018) — 1 ▶
The Fear — 103 ▶
The Fear (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
The Fear (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
The Fear (Live at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
The Fear (Live At T In The Park 2012) — 1 ▶
The Killing Of Georgie (Radio 1 Session, 21 May 2018) — 1 ▶
The Wolves — 259 ▶
The Wolves (live at Green Man Festival) — 3 ▶
The Wolves (Live At Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012) — 3 ▶
The Wolves (Live at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012) — 1 ▶
The Wolves (Live At T In The Park 2012) — 1 ▶
The Wolves (Live From Aberdeen) — 1 ▶
The Wolves (Live From The Student Tour) — 2 ▶
The Wolves (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) — 5 ▶
The Wolves (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) — 3 ▶
The Wolves (Zane Lowe Session) — 1 ▶
The Wolves <Little Dragon Remix> — 3 ▶
There's Your Man — 4 ▶
Theres Your Man — 1 ▶
Time Is Dancing (Radio 1 Session, 23 Sep 2014) — 1 ▶
Time Is Dancing (Zane Lowe Session, 23 Sep, 2014) — 2 ▶
Towing the Line — 6 ▶
Walking Backwards — 7 ▶
Walking Backwards (Sofa Session, 05 June 2023) — 1 ▶
What A Day — 60 ▶
Wildest Moments — 1 ▶
Wildest Moments (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 21 May 2015) — 1 ▶
Wildest Moments (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 21st May 2015) — 5 ▶
Wolves — 2 ▶