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Big Thief

Big Thief is a group from the US, active since 2015.

Group US since 2015 indie rock alternative rock folk rock
TOTAL PLAYS
945
SONGS PLAYED
74
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2016-03-23 23:32 · Radio 1 — "Real Love"
LAST PLAYED
13 hours ago · Radio 2 — "Shoulders (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026)"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2016 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 831 88%
Radio 1 97 10%
Radio 2 17 2%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 14:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Shark Smile 172 2026-05-08
2 Not 96 2025-12-23
3 Words 88 2026-04-29
4 Vampire Empire 79 2026-05-19
5 Los Angeles 70 2025-11-16
6 UFOF 62 2025-08-03
7 Incomprehensible 61 2026-04-13
8 Haley 47 2022-02-27
9 Masterpiece 27 2026-05-13
10 Paul 23 2022-08-07
11 Simulation Swarm 21 2025-08-17
12 All Night All Day 16 2026-05-09
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-20 19:33 Shoulders (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026) Radio 2
2026-05-20 19:21 Incomprehensible (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026) Radio 2
2026-05-19 18:50 Vampire Empire Radio 2
2026-05-15 04:53 Incomprehensible (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026) 6 Music
2026-05-13 17:34 Masterpiece 6 Music
2026-05-10 09:24 Certainty 6 Music
2026-05-09 05:37 All Night All Day 6 Music
2026-05-08 21:41 Vampire Empire 6 Music
2026-05-08 13:33 Shark Smile 6 Music
2026-05-05 16:40 Shoulders (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026) 6 Music
2026-04-30 19:56 Vampire Empire Radio 2
2026-04-29 16:13 Words Radio 1
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

74 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
12,000 Lines — 1 ▶
All Night All Day — 16 ▶
Black Diamonds — 2 ▶
Blue Lightning — 2 ▶
Blurred View — 1 ▶
Born For Loving You — 7 ▶
Breathe In My Lungs — 4 ▶
Capacity — 1 ▶
Cattails — 4 ▶
Cattails (6 Music Session, 23 May 2019) — 2 ▶
Cattails (Glastonbury 2022) — 2 ▶
Century (6 Music Session, 23 May 2019) — 2 ▶
Certainty — 3 ▶
Certainty (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Change — 15 ▶
Change (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Contact — 2 ▶
Cut My Hair — 2 ▶
Double Infinity — 1 ▶
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You — 1 ▶
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Flower of Blood (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Forgotten Eyes — 3 ▶
From — 5 ▶
Great White Shark — 3 ▶
Haley — 47 ▶
Happy With You — 1 ▶
Hayley — 1 ▶
Incomprehensible — 61 ▶
Incomprehensible (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026) — 2 ▶
Interstate — 1 ▶
Jenni — 1 ▶
Little Things — 10 ▶
Los Angeles — 70 ▶
Love in Mine — 2 ▶
Love Love Love — 2 ▶
Mary — 14 ▶
Mary (6 Music Session, 23 Aug 2017) — 2 ▶
Masterpiece — 27 ▶
Mythological Beast — 1 ▶
Mythological Beauty — 13 ▶
Mythological Beauty (radio edit) — 3 ▶
No Fear — 1 ▶
No Reason — 3 ▶
Not — 96 ▶
Not (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Objects — 3 ▶
Off You — 3 ▶
Open Desert — 3 ▶
Orange — 2 ▶
Parallels — 1 ▶
Paul — 23 ▶
Pretty Things — 1 ▶
Promise Is a Pendulum — 3 ▶
Real Love — 6 ▶
Red Moon — 1 ▶
Shark Smile — 172 ▶
Shark Smile (6 Music Session, 23 Aug 2017) — 4 ▶
Shoulders — 5 ▶
Shoulders (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2026) — 2 ▶
Shoulders (6 Music Session, 23 Aug 2017) — 1 ▶
Simulation Swarm — 21 ▶
Sparrow — 4 ▶
Spud Infinity — 2 ▶
Terminal Paradise — 1 ▶
The Only Place — 4 ▶
Time Escaping — 4 ▶
Two Hands — 2 ▶
UFOF — 62 ▶
Vampire Empire — 79 ▶
Vegas — 3 ▶
Watering — 1 ▶
Wolf — 2 ▶
Words — 88 ▶