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Elton John

Elton John is a person from the UK, active since 1947.

Person GB since 1947 pop pop rock piano rock
TOTAL PLAYS
6,365
SONGS PLAYED
305
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2006-05-01 08:22 · Radio 2 — "Crocodile Rock"
LAST PLAYED
2 months ago · Radio 2 — "Bennie and the Jets"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2006 — 2026
500 375 250 125 0
'06 '09 '12 '15 '18 '21 '24
◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 2 5,577 88%
Radio 1 436 7%
6 Music 349 5%
1Xtra 3 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 15:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Step Into Christmas 618 2025-12-27
2 I'm Still Standing 589 2026-05-25
3 Are You Ready for Love 396 2026-05-21
4 Tiny Dancer 269 2026-04-29
5 Crocodile Rock 259 2026-05-08
6 Rocket Man 244 2026-04-14
7 Philadelphia Freedom 224 2026-05-12
8 Your Song 212 2026-05-13
9 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 155 2025-10-26
10 Sacrifice 152 2026-04-05
11 Daniel 130 2026-05-15
12 Island Girl 128 2025-07-14
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-25 21:24 Bennie and the Jets Radio 2
2026-05-25 08:32 I'm Still Standing Radio 2
2026-05-25 00:30 Chameleon 6 Music
2026-05-24 13:37 Chameleon 6 Music
2026-05-21 04:16 Are You Ready for Love Radio 2
2026-05-18 00:21 Chameleon 6 Music
2026-05-17 22:10 Nikita Radio 2
2026-05-17 20:08 Someone Saved My Life Tonight Radio 2
2026-05-17 13:24 Chameleon 6 Music
2026-05-15 11:48 Daniel Radio 2
2026-05-15 05:05 I'm Still Standing Radio 2
2026-05-13 12:54 Your Song Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

305 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(Goodbye) Yellow Brick Road - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 2 ▶
A Good Heart — 34 ▶
All Quiet On The Western Front — 2 ▶
All the Nasties (Live at OGWT 1971) — 1 ▶
All The Young Girls Like Alice 1973 — 1 ▶
American Triangle — 16 ▶
Amoreena — 1 ▶
Are You Ready for Love — 396 ▶
Are You Ready For Love — 113 ▶
Are You Ready For Love (12" Version) — 1 ▶
Are You Ready For Love (2003 Remix) — 1 ▶
Are You Ready For Love (Andy Buchan Edit) — 1 ▶
Are You Ready For Love (Glastonbury 2023) (feat. Jacob Lusk & London Community Gospel Choir) — 5 ▶
Are You Ready For Love? — 21 ▶
Are You Ready For Love? (Glastonbury 2023) (feat. Jacob Lusk) — 1 ▶
Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun — 3 ▶
Believe — 2 ▶
Bennie & The Jets — 56 ▶
Bennie & The Jets (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Bennie & The Jets (Live) — 2 ▶
Bennie & The Jets (TUNESDAY) — 1 ▶
Bennie and the Jets — 87 ▶
Bennie And The Jets — 33 ▶
Bennie And The Jets - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Bennie And The Jets 1973 — 1 ▶
Benny and the Jets — 1 ▶
Better Off Dead — 6 ▶
Big Game Tactics — 1 ▶
Bitter Fingers — 2 ▶
Blessed — 3 ▶
Blue Eyes — 46 ▶
Blue Wonderful — 79 ▶
Blue Wonderful (Radio 2 Session, 3 Feb 2016) — 1 ▶
Blues Never Fade Away — 1 ▶
Border Song — 23 ▶
Border Song - Hammermisth Odeon 1974 — 3 ▶
Breaking Hearts (Ain't What They Used to Be) — 1 ▶
Burn Down The Mission — 4 ▶
Burn Down The Mission - BBC Session — 1 ▶
Burn Down The Mission - Hammermisth Odeon 1974 — 2 ▶
But Not for Me — 2 ▶
Cage The Songbird — 7 ▶
Can You Feel the Love Tonight — 67 ▶
Can You Feel The Love Tonight — 7 ▶
Can You Feel the Love Tonight (instrumental) — 3 ▶
Can't Stay Alone Tonight — 28 ▶
Candle in the Wind — 18 ▶
Candle In The Wind — 8 ▶
Candle In The Wind (1997 Version) — 12 ▶
Candle in the Wind (1997) — 6 ▶
Candle In The Wind (Acoustic) — 1 ▶
Candle In The Wind (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Candle In The Wind (Live In Australia) — 8 ▶
Candle In The Wind (Live in Melbourne) — 1 ▶
Candle in The Wind (Live Single Edit) — 1 ▶
Candle In The Wind (Live) — 1 ▶
Candle In The Wind - Hammermisth Odeon 1974 — 2 ▶
Candle In The Wind - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 3 ▶
Candle in The Wind 1973 — 1 ▶
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy — 1 ▶
Chameleon — 14 ▶
Chloe — 1 ▶
Christmas Medley - 1973 — 1 ▶
Circle of Life — 50 ▶
Circle Of Life — 10 ▶
Claw Hammer — 3 ▶
Club At The End Of The Street — 3 ▶
Cold As Christmas — 15 ▶
Cold Heart (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Come Down In Time — 9 ▶
Country Comfort — 3 ▶
Country Comfort (Piano Demo) — 1 ▶
Country Comfort - BBC Session — 1 ▶
Country Comfort - Hammermisth Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Crocodile Rock — 259 ▶
Crocodile Rock (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Crocodile Rock 1973 — 1 ▶
Cry To Heaven — 2 ▶
Daniel — 130 ▶
Daniel (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Daniel (Live 2000 version) — 1 ▶
Daniel - Hammersith Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Daniel - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Dear God — 2 ▶
Don't Go Breaking My Heart — 61 ▶
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Glastonbury 2023) (feat. Rina Sawayama) — 1 ▶
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me — 8 ▶
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me — 5 ▶
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 4 ▶
Ego — 1 ▶
Elderberry Wine — 9 ▶
Electricity — 14 ▶
Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight — 1 ▶
Elton's Song — 3 ▶
Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) — 1 ▶
Empty Sky — 2 ▶
Funeral for a Friend — 3 ▶
Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) — 8 ▶
Funeral For A Friend - Hammermisth Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding — 6 ▶
Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding 1973 — 1 ▶
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding — 1 ▶
Good Morning To The Night — 2 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road — 155 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, December 1973) — 1 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Live) — 2 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Radio 2 In Concert 11/09/2013 — 1 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Radio 2 In Concert 50 - RX 11/09/2013 — 1 ▶
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973 — 1 ▶
Grey Seal — 8 ▶
Grimsby - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Guilty Pleasures — 1 ▶
Harmony — 10 ▶
Healing Hands — 38 ▶
High Flying Bird - Hammermisth Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Hinky Cat - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Ho Ho Ho, Who'd Be A Turkey at Christmas — 1 ▶
Ho Ho Ho, Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas (Radio 1 Session, ) — 4 ▶
Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas) — 5 ▶
Holiday Inn - Hammermisth Odeon 1974 — 1 ▶
Home Again — 80 ▶
Honky Cat — 59 ▶
Honky Cat 1973 — 1 ▶
Honky Tonk Women (live) — 1 ▶
Honky Tonk Women (UK-Release Mix) — 2 ▶
I Can't Go On Living Without You *** EMBARGOED 11/11/20 2pm *** — 1 ▶
I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That — 18 ▶
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues — 108 ▶
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues — 27 ▶
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
I Must Have Lost It On The Wind — 1 ▶
I Saw Her Standing There (live) (feat. John Lennon) — 4 ▶
I Saw Her Standing There - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 3 ▶
I Want Love — 23 ▶
I'm Still Standing — 589 ▶
I'm Still Standing (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
I'm Still Standing (In Concert) — 1 ▶
I'm Still Standing (Live) — 2 ▶
I'm Still Standing (Radio 2 In Concert) — 1 ▶
I've Been Loving You — 4 ▶
I've Got 2 Wings — 1 ▶
I've Seen That Movie Too — 1 ▶
Idol — 1 ▶
If It Wasn't For Bad — 1 ▶
If The River Can Bend — 2 ▶
If You Were Me — 1 ▶
In The Name Of You — 69 ▶
In The Name Of You (Radio edit) — 5 ▶
Intro / Benny and the Jets (Live on OGWT Christmas Special 1974) — 1 ▶
Island Girl — 128 ▶
Jamaica Jerk-Off — 1 ▶
Keep It A Mystery — 1 ▶
Kiss The Bride — 91 ▶
Lady Samantha — 3 ▶
Lady What's Tomorrow — 2 ▶
Levon — 23 ▶
Levon (Live) — 2 ▶
Little Island — 2 ▶
Little Jeannie — 40 ▶
Looking Up — 78 ▶
Love Song — 10 ▶
love song. — 4 ▶
Lucy in the Sky With Diamond (Edit with Eastenders) — 1 ▶
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds — 28 ▶
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, (feat. John Lennon) — 1 ▶
Made in England — 19 ▶
Made In England — 9 ▶
Madman Across the Water — 2 ▶
Madman Across The Water — 1 ▶
Mama Can't Buy You Love — 1 ▶
Mellow — 2 ▶
Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters — 1 ▶
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters — 25 ▶
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters — 8 ▶
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters - Maddison Square Gardens, 2001 — 1 ▶
My Father's Gun — 1 ▶
Never Too Late — 12 ▶
Nice & Slow — 1 ▶
Nikita — 43 ▶
Nobody Wins — 42 ▶
Oceans Away — 2 ▶
One More Arrow — 1 ▶
Oscar Wild Gets Out — 1 ▶
Out Of The Blue — 2 ▶
Part Time Love — 72 ▶
Part-Time Love — 87 ▶
Passengers — 44 ▶
Philadelphia Freedom — 224 ▶
Philadelphia Freedom (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Pinball Wizard — 42 ▶
Pinball Wizard (Glastonbury 2023) — 5 ▶
Pinball Wizard (Remastered / From "Tommy" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — 1 ▶
Pinky — 1 ▶
R2 Saturday Club (long) — 2 ▶
Recover Your Soul — 3 ▶
Return To Paradise — 2 ▶
Rocket Man — 244 ▶
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time) Session Demo — 1 ▶
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time) — 1 ▶
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) (Glastonbury 2023) — 5 ▶
Rocket Man (Live) — 2 ▶
Rocket Man (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park) — 1 ▶
Rocket Man (Radio 2 Session, 3 Feb 2016) — 1 ▶
Rocket Man - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 2 ▶
Roy Rogers — 3 ▶
Roy Rogers (Remastered 2014) — 1 ▶
Sacrifice — 152 ▶
Sacrifice (Steve Wright In The Afternoon, 26 June 1990) — 1 ▶
Sad — 2 ▶
Sad Songs (Live At The Electric Proms) — 1 ▶
Sad Songs (Say So Much) — 80 ▶
Sad Songs (Say So Much) (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Sails — 2 ▶
Salvation — 2 ▶
Sartorial Eloquence — 4 ▶
Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) — 101 ▶
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting — 71 ▶
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Live) — 2 ▶
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2016) — 1 ▶
Saturday night's alright for fighting 1973 — 1 ▶
Shine On Through — 1 ▶
Shoulder Holster — 1 ▶
Sing Me No Sad Songs — 1 ▶
Sixty Years On — 11 ▶
Skyline Pidgeon - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 3 ▶
Skyline Pigeon — 8 ▶
Skyline Pigeon (live) — 1 ▶
Skyline Pigeon (Piano Version) — 1 ▶
Someday Out of the Blue — 1 ▶
Someday out of the Blue (Theme from El Dorado) — 1 ▶
Someone Saved My Life Tonight — 44 ▶
Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Something About The Way You Look Tonight — 34 ▶
Son Of Your Father — 1 ▶
Song For Guy — 46 ▶
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word — 19 ▶
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word — 10 ▶
Step Into Christmas — 618 ▶
Step Into Christmas (chart edit) — 2 ▶
Step Into Christmas (Radio 1 Session) — 3 ▶
Take Me to the Pilot — 5 ▶
Take Me To The Pilot — 1 ▶
Take Me To The Pilot - BBC Session — 1 ▶
Teacher I Need You — 11 ▶
Tell Me When the Whistle Blows — 1 ▶
Tell Me When The Whistle Blows (Remastered) — 1 ▶
The Bitch Is Back — 1 ▶
The Ballad Of Danny Bailey — 1 ▶
The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909 1934) — 1 ▶
The Bitch Is Back — 22 ▶
The Bitch Is Back (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
The Bitch Is Back (Live) — 2 ▶
The Bridge — 33 ▶
The Cage — 1 ▶
The Captain and The Kid — 2 ▶
The Circle of life — 11 ▶
The Greatest Discovery — 2 ▶
The Last Song — 1 ▶
The New Fever Waltz — 2 ▶
The One — 31 ▶
The Open Chord — 3 ▶
The Retreat — 2 ▶
The Scaffold — 1 ▶
This Song Has No Title — 1 ▶
This Train Don't Stop There Anymore — 10 ▶
Tinderbox — 2 ▶
Tiny Dancer — 269 ▶
Tiny Dancer (BBC Sounds For Saturday - 29 Apr 1972) — 1 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Glastonbury 2023) (feat. Brandon Flowers) — 1 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Live at The BBC) — 1 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Live Radio 2 in concert Sept 2013) — 1 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Live) — 3 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Piano Demo) — 1 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2016) — 1 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Radio 2 Session, 03 Feb 2015) — 1 ▶
Tiny Dancer (Radio 2 Session, 3 Feb 2016) — 1 ▶
Tonight — 8 ▶
Too Low For Zero — 19 ▶
Tower of Babel — 1 ▶
True Love — 2 ▶
Turn The Lights Out When You Leave — 1 ▶
Until I Found You (Glastonbury 2023) (feat. Steven Sanchez) — 2 ▶
Victim Of Love — 5 ▶
Voyeur — 76 ▶
Voyuer — 1 ▶
We All Fall in Love Sometimes — 2 ▶
Where To Now St. Peter? — 1 ▶
Wonderful Crazy Night (Radio 2 Session, 3 Feb 2016) — 1 ▶
Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC) — 1 ▶
Wrap Her Up (feat. George Michael) — 1 ▶
Writing — 1 ▶
Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock'N'Roll) — 1 ▶
Your Song — 212 ▶
Your Song (BBC's Platinum Party At The Palace) — 1 ▶
Your Song (Demo Version) — 1 ▶
Your Song (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Your Song (Live) — 2 ▶
Your Song - BBC Session — 1 ▶
Your Song - Hammersmith Odeon 1974 — 4 ▶
Your Song 1973 — 1 ▶
Your Song <CLIP> — 3 ▶
Your Starter For — 1 ▶