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Frankie & The Heartstrings

Frankie & The Heartstrings is a group from Sunderland, active since 2008.

Group Sunderland since 2008 indie rock
TOTAL PLAYS
400
SONGS PLAYED
41
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2009-08-05 20:06 · Radio 1 — "Hunger"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · 6 Music — "Hunger"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2009 — 2026
200 150 100 50 0
'09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 299 75%
Radio 1 100 25%
Radio 2 1 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 23:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Hunger 207 2026-05-05
2 Tender 51 2012-07-18
3 Think Yourself Lucky 34 2021-11-24
4 Ungrateful 18 2011-03-02
5 I Still Follow You 11 2023-11-10
6 Nothing Our Way 7 2019-06-15
7 Money 7 2015-10-10
8 That Postcard 6 2011-05-22
9 (Too Right) It's Christmas 5 2016-12-26
10 Everybody Looks Better (In The Right Light) 5 2011-12-02
11 Possibilities 4 2021-08-29
12 The Night 4 2017-04-05
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-05 23:10 Hunger 6 Music
2025-01-24 17:55 Hunger 6 Music
2024-12-06 22:10 Hunger 6 Music
2024-10-07 15:52 Hunger 6 Music
2023-11-10 09:17 I Still Follow You 6 Music
2023-09-11 16:42 Just Not In Love 6 Music
2023-02-28 16:26 Hunger (6 Music Session, 7 Feb 2011) 6 Music
2022-04-18 04:58 Hunger 6 Music
2021-11-24 09:27 Think Yourself Lucky 6 Music
2021-08-29 18:37 Possibilities 6 Music
2021-08-27 07:43 Losing A Friend 6 Music
2021-03-22 18:42 Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

41 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(Too Right) It's Christmas — 5 ▶
Balconette — 1 ▶
Berlin Calls — 4 ▶
Decency — 1 ▶
Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) — 1 ▶
Everybody Looks Better (In The Right Light) — 5 ▶
Everybody Looks Better In the Right Light — 1 ▶
Fragile — 3 ▶
Hunger — 207 ▶
Hunger (6 Music Festival 2015) — 1 ▶
Hunger (6 Music Session, 7 Feb 2011) — 2 ▶
Hunger (Golau Glau Remix) — 1 ▶
Hunger (New Single Version) — 1 ▶
Hunger - 6 Music session 07/02/2011 — 1 ▶
Hunger - Glastonbury 2010 — 1 ▶
Hunger <INMWT LIVE> — 1 ▶
Hunger <Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Bangor 2010> — 3 ▶
Hunger For Funk — 1 ▶
I Still Follow You — 11 ▶
Just Not In Love — 1 ▶
Losing A Friend — 1 ▶
Money — 7 ▶
Not For Pleasure — 1 ▶
Nothing Our Way — 7 ▶
Photograph — 2 ▶
Possibilities — 4 ▶
Postcard (6 Music Session, 7 Feb 2011) — 1 ▶
Someday Anna — 1 ▶
Tender — 51 ▶
Tender <Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Bangor 2010> — 1 ▶
That Girl, That Scene — 3 ▶
That Postcard — 6 ▶
The Night — 4 ▶
Think Yourself Lucky — 34 ▶
Think Yourself Lucky (6 Music Festival 2015) — 1 ▶
Too Right (It's Christmas) (feat. Edwyn Collins) — 2 ▶
Ungrateful — 18 ▶
Ungrateful <Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Bangor 2010> — 1 ▶
What Goes Around (Live) — 1 ▶
Young Again (6 Music Session, 7 Feb 2011) — 1 ▶
Young Again - 6Music Session 07/02/2011 — 1 ▶