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Elbow

Elbow is a group from the UK, active since 1990.

Group GB since 1990 indie rock alternative rock british
TOTAL PLAYS
5,644
SONGS PLAYED
296
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-14 16:45 · 6 Music — "any day now"
LAST PLAYED
2 months ago · 6 Music — "Grounds for Divorce"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
700 525 350 175 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 3,362 60%
Radio 2 1,934 34%
Radio 1 347 6%
1Xtra 1 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 08:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 One Day Like This 1,322 2026-05-22
2 Magnificent (She Says) 253 2026-03-21
3 Open Arms 216 2024-01-31
4 Grounds For Divorce 181 2012-05-31
5 The Bones Of You 173 2011-10-19
6 Neat Little Rows 172 2020-08-18
7 Grounds for Divorce 144 2026-05-24
8 New York Morning 136 2020-10-07
9 What Time Do You Call This? 133 2025-02-09
10 Forget Myself 127 2025-10-31
11 Fugitive Motel 123 2025-10-21
12 My Sad Captains 121 2025-02-16
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-24 06:25 Grounds for Divorce 6 Music
2026-05-22 09:17 One Day Like This Radio 1
2026-05-21 16:34 Grounds for Divorce 6 Music
2026-05-17 02:46 Knife Fight 6 Music
2026-05-10 21:03 One Day Like This Radio 2
2026-05-08 04:52 Grounds for Divorce 6 Music
2026-05-05 02:03 One Day Like This Radio 1
2026-05-04 13:57 Independent Women, Part 1 6 Music
2026-05-02 07:55 One Day Like This Radio 2
2026-04-23 01:34 One Day Like This Radio 2
2026-04-19 22:33 Weather to Fly Radio 2
2026-04-10 14:12 One Day Like This Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

296 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
1 Thing — 1 ▶
1 Thing (Live From BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, 2005) — 1 ▶
1 Thing (Live Lounge) — 1 ▶
1 Thing <Live Lounge> — 1 ▶
1 Thing <live luonge> — 1 ▶
1 Thing from the Live lounge — 1 ▶
: Live From Blueprint Studios — 1 ▶
Adriana Again — 55 ▶
After the Eclipse — 1 ▶
All Disco — 64 ▶
All Disco (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) — 1 ▶
All Disco - 6 Music Live Session — 1 ▶
An Audience with the Pope — 2 ▶
An Audience With The Pope — 1 ▶
An Imagined Affair — 1 ▶
Any Day Now — 16 ▶
any day now — 9 ▶
Asleep in the Back — 3 ▶
asleep in the back — 2 ▶
Back To Black (Live Lounge) — 2 ▶
Back To Black (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 5th June 2008) — 1 ▶
Balu — 54 ▶
Balu (6 Music Session, 27 Mar 2024) — 4 ▶
Bitten By The Tailfire - Reading Festival 2001 — 4 ▶
Bitten By The Tailfire - Reading Festival 2001 — 3 ▶
Bitten By The Tailfly (Reading Festival 2001) — 3 ▶
Bitten By The Tailfly - Glastonbury 2004 — 1 ▶
Bitten By The Tailfly - Glastonbury 2005 — 2 ▶
Blank of Night — 1 ▶
Blanket of Night — 2 ▶
Buffalo Ghosts — 2 ▶
Buttons and Zips — 1 ▶
Charge — 76 ▶
Charge (live In Concert for Radio 2 from Maida Vale March 2014) — 1 ▶
Charge (Live) — 1 ▶
Charge / Lippy kids (6 Music festival 280214) — 1 ▶
Colour Fields — 6 ▶
Coming Second (live at the Astoria) — 1 ▶
Coming Second (Reading Festival 2001) — 3 ▶
Coming Second - Glastonbury 2004 — 1 ▶
Coming Second - Reading Festival 2001 — 4 ▶
Coming Second - Reading Festival 2001 — 3 ▶
Dear Friends — 41 ▶
Dexter & Sinister — 42 ▶
Dexter & Sinner — 1 ▶
Dexter and Sinister (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Don't Mix Your Drinks — 1 ▶
don't mix your drinks — 1 ▶
Down In The Hole — 9 ▶
Elbow - Recorded Live At Summer Sundae — 1 ▶
Empires — 88 ▶
Empires (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 19) — 1 ▶
Empires (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Empires (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) — 1 ▶
Fallen Angel — 27 ▶
Fallen Angel - Glastonbury 2004 — 2 ▶
Fallen Angel - Glastonbury 2005 — 2 ▶
Fallen Angel. — 10 ▶
Firebrand & Angel — 1 ▶
First Steps — 42 ▶
Fly Boy Blue / Lunette — 9 ▶
Fly Boy Blue-Lunette — 2 ▶
Fly Boy Blue/Lunette — 8 ▶
Flying Dream 1 — 1 ▶
Forget Myself — 127 ▶
Friend of Ours — 5 ▶
Friend Of Ours — 4 ▶
Friend Of Ours (live from Abbey Road with the BBC Concert Orchestra) — 1 ▶
From the River — 2 ▶
Fugitive Motel — 123 ▶
Fugitive Motel - Glastonbury 2004 — 1 ▶
Fugitive Motel - Glastonbury 2005 — 2 ▶
Fugitive Motel - Hub Session 07/09/2005 — 2 ▶
Gentle Storm — 94 ▶
Gentle Storm (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) — 2 ▶
George Lassoes the Moon (Reading Festival 2001) — 3 ▶
George Lassoes The Moon - Reading Festival 2001 — 3 ▶
George Lassoes The Moon - Reading Festival 2001 — 2 ▶
Golden Slumbers — 113 ▶
Good Blood Mexico City — 2 ▶
Grace Under Pressure — 34 ▶
Great Expectations — 12 ▶
Great Expectations Hub Session 07/09/2005 — 1 ▶
Great Expectations - Hub Session 07/09/2005 — 1 ▶
Ground For Divorce (live Recording) — 1 ▶
Grounds for Divorce — 144 ▶
Grounds For Divorce — 181 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (6 Music Session 10 Oct 19) — 1 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2019) — 1 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (6 Music Session, 27th of March 2024) — 2 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Colin Murray Session Track) — 1 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Glastonbury 2014) — 2 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Glastonbury 2017) — 2 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Grounds for Divorce (Live from Maida Vale 2014) — 1 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Live In Manchester) — 1 ▶
Grounds for Divorce (live) — 3 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Radio 2 In Concert 50, 2008) — 1 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Radio 2 In Concert 50, 2009) — 1 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Radio 2 Session, 03 FEB 2017) — 1 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (radio edit) — 4 ▶
Grounds For Divorce (Saturday Session Archive) — 2 ▶
Grounds For Divorce - live from Manchester Cathedral — 3 ▶
Grounds For Divorce [Live] — 1 ▶
Hap1207 Elbow All Disco — 1 ▶
Harvets Moon (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021) — 2 ▶
Her to the Earth — 3 ▶
High Ideals — 1 ▶
Honey Sun — 4 ▶
Independent Woman — 3 ▶
Independent Women (Live Lounge) — 1 ▶
Independent Women, Part 1 — 1 ▶
Independent Women, pt. 1 (BBC Radio 1's Jo Whiley's Live Lounge) — 1 ▶
Is It a Bird — 1 ▶
Jesus Is a Rochdale Girl — 6 ▶
K2 — 1 ▶
Kindling — 4 ▶
Kindling (feat. John Grant) — 1 ▶
Kindling (Fickle Flame) (feat. John Grant) — 57 ▶
Kindling (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Knife Fight — 3 ▶
Leaders of the Free World — 50 ▶
Leaders Of The Free World — 35 ▶
Leaders Of The Free World - Glastonbury 2008 — 2 ▶
Leaders Of The Free World - Summer Sundae Weekender 2006 — 2 ▶
Lippy Kids — 70 ▶
lippy kids — 108 ▶
Lippy Kids (6 Music Session 10 Oct 19) — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids (Glastonbury 2014) — 4 ▶
Lippy Kids (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids (Live at Blueprint Studios) — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids (Live) — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) — 4 ▶
Lippy Kids - Glastonbury 2011 — 3 ▶
Lippy Kids - Live at Manchester Catherdral — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids - Live from the Mercury Prize 06/09/2011 — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids - Live from the Mercury Prize 2011 — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids [Live] — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids/ One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2014) — 1 ▶
Lippy Kids: Live From Blueprint Studios — 1 ▶
Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver — 1 ▶
Lost Worker Bee — 53 ▶
Lover's Leap — 2 ▶
Lovers Leap — 34 ▶
Lovers' Leap — 69 ▶
Lovers' Leap (6 Music Session, 27 Mar 2024) — 3 ▶
Lullaby — 2 ▶
Lullaby (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) — 1 ▶
Magnificent — 1 ▶
Magnificent (She Says) — 253 ▶
Magnificent (She Says) (Radio 2 Session, 11 Oct 2019) — 1 ▶
Magnificent (She Says) (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) — 1 ▶
Magnificent (She Says) - Acoustic/ Live At The Ritz — 1 ▶
Magnificent (She Says)(Radio 2 Session, 15 Sept 2024) — 2 ▶
Magnificent - 6 Music Session — 1 ▶
Magnificent She Said (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Mercy Street — 3 ▶
Mexican Standoff — 27 ▶
Mirrorball — 59 ▶
Mirrorball (live) — 1 ▶
Mirrorball (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021) — 2 ▶
Mirrorball (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) — 1 ▶
Mirrorball (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) — 1 ▶
Montparnasse — 1 ▶
My Morning (Live) — 1 ▶
My Sad Captains — 121 ▶
My Sad Captains (Glastonbury 2014) — 1 ▶
My Sad Captains (Live) — 1 ▶
My Sad Captains (Radio 2 Session, 26th Jan 2022) — 1 ▶
My Trouble — 2 ▶
My Very Best — 13 ▶
Neat Little Rows — 172 ▶
Neat Little Rows - Glastonbury 2011 — 1 ▶
New York Morning — 136 ▶
New York Morning (Glastonbury 2014) — 3 ▶
New York Morning (Live At Glastonbury 2014) — 1 ▶
New York Morning (Live for Radio 2 In Concert) — 4 ▶
Newborn — 17 ▶
newborn — 36 ▶
Newborn (Radio 1 Session, 17th April 2001) — 1 ▶
Newborn (Reading Festival 2001) — 3 ▶
Newborn - Glastonbury 2004 — 1 ▶
Newborn - Glastonbury 2008 — 1 ▶
Newborn - Reading Festival 2001 — 2 ▶
Newborn - Reading Festival 2001 — 3 ▶
Newborn. — 1 ▶
Not a Job — 24 ▶
Not A Job — 33 ▶
Not A Job (6 Music Session) — 2 ▶
On Deronda Road — 1 ▶
One Day Like This — 1,322 ▶
One Day Like This (BBC Radio 2, May 2008) — 1 ▶
One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2008) — 1 ▶
One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2011) — 1 ▶
One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2014) — 5 ▶
One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2022) — 3 ▶
One Day Like This (Glastonbury, 27 June 2016) — 2 ▶
One Day Like This (Live from Glastonbury 2014) — 1 ▶
One Day Like This (Live Lounge) — 4 ▶
One Day Like This (live) — 3 ▶
One Day Like This (Live: Radio 2 In Concert at Manchester Cathedral) — 1 ▶
One Day Like This (Maida Vale Session) — 1 ▶
One Day Like This (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) — 3 ▶
One Day Like This - Glastonbury 2008 — 2 ▶
One Day Like This - glastonbury 2011 — 4 ▶
One Day Like This - R1 Live Lounge — 5 ▶
One Day Like This <Live at Maida Vale> — 1 ▶
One Day Like This <Radio Edit> — 2 ▶
One Day Like This performed in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge — 2 ▶
One Thing — 2 ▶
Open Arms — 216 ▶
Open Arms (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
Open Arms (Live: Radio 2 In Concert at Manchester Cathedral) — 2 ▶
Powder Blue — 20 ▶
powder blue — 28 ▶
Powder Blue (Reading Festival 2001) — 3 ▶
Powder Blue - Reading Festival 2001 — 3 ▶
Powder Blue - Reading Festival 2001 — 3 ▶
Puncture Repair — 1 ▶
Puncture Repairs (Live) — 1 ▶
Punture Repair — 1 ▶
Real Life — 2 ▶
Real Life (Angel) — 78 ▶
Red — 10 ▶
red — 21 ▶
Red (Lamacq Live Session, Radio 1, 17th April 2001) — 1 ▶
Red Sky Radio (Baby Baby Baby) — 1 ▶
ribcage — 1 ▶
Running to a Standstill — 1 ▶
Running To Stand Still — 1 ▶
Sad Captains (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Scaterred black & whites — 1 ▶
Scatterd Black And White — 1 ▶
Scatterd Bland And White — 19 ▶
Scattered Black & Whites — 6 ▶
Scattered Black And Blue — 1 ▶
Scattered Black And White - Reading Festival 2001 — 4 ▶
Scattered Black And White - Reading Festival 2001 — 3 ▶
Scattered Black and Whites — 18 ▶
scattered black and whites — 6 ▶
Scattered Black And Whites (live) — 1 ▶
Scattered Black And Whites (Reading Festival 2001) — 3 ▶
Seven Veils — 1 ▶
Six Words — 51 ▶
Six Words (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021) — 1 ▶
Sober — 84 ▶
Some Riot — 2 ▶
Starlings — 13 ▶
Station Approach — 50 ▶
Station Approach (Glasto '08) — 1 ▶
Station Approach - Glastonbury 2008 — 2 ▶
Station Approach - Leeds 2005 — 1 ▶
Station Approach - Live At Glastonbury 2008 — 1 ▶
Stops — 1 ▶
Switching Off — 5 ▶
Teardrop — 5 ▶
The Bewlay Brothers — 14 ▶
The Bewlay Brothers (6 Music Session) — 1 ▶
The Bewlay Brothers - 6Music Session — 1 ▶
The Birds — 6 ▶
The Birds (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
The Birds (Reprise) — 1 ▶
The Birds (reprise) — 1 ▶
The Blanket of Night — 6 ▶
The Bones of You — 48 ▶
The Bones Of You — 173 ▶
The Fix — 13 ▶
The Fix - Glastonbury 2008 — 2 ▶
The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver — 5 ▶
The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver (live from the Mercury awards) — 1 ▶
The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver — 2 ▶
The Night Will Always Win — 1 ▶
The Only Road — 1 ▶
The River — 1 ▶
The Seldom Seen Kid — 2 ▶
The Take Off and Landing of Everything — 1 ▶
Things I've Been Telling Myself for Years — 4 ▶
This Blue World — 3 ▶
Trust the Sun — 1 ▶
Way Down In The Hole (Saturday Session Archive) — 2 ▶
We Have All the Time in the World (Live with the BBC Concert Orchestra) — 1 ▶
Weather to Fly — 13 ▶
Weather To Fly — 3 ▶
Weightless — 8 ▶
Weightless (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) — 1 ▶
What Am I Without You — 57 ▶
What Time Do You Call This — 1 ▶
What Time Do You Call This? — 133 ▶
Whisper Grass — 1 ▶
White Heat, White Noise (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 19) — 1 ▶
White Noise White Heat — 80 ▶
White Noise White Heat (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) — 1 ▶
Wichita Lineman (Radio 2 Session, 11 10 2019) — 1 ▶
Witchita Lineman (Radio 2 Session, 11 Oct 2019) — 1 ▶
With Love — 5 ▶