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Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand is a group from the UK, active since 2001.

Group GB since 2001 indie rock post-punk revival art rock
TOTAL PLAYS
4,320
SONGS PLAYED
248
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-18 05:00 · 6 Music — "Come On Home"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · 6 Music — "Do You Want To"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
800 600 400 200 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 2,620 61%
Radio 1 982 23%
Radio 2 711 16%
1Xtra 7 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 09:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Take Me Out 845 2026-08-09
2 No You Girls 528 2026-08-21
3 Do You Want To 355 2026-08-24
4 Ulysses 260 2022-10-26
5 Eleanor Put Your Boots On 145 2021-09-19
6 Always Ascending 125 2024-08-16
7 Matinee 117 2026-04-17
8 Feel the Love Go 111 2021-01-04
9 Glimpse Of Love (Version) 107 2018-11-19
10 Right Action 105 2025-03-05
11 Can't Stop Feeling 104 2024-11-15
12 Michael 93 2026-08-19
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-24 06:10 Do You Want To 6 Music
2026-08-21 20:03 No You Girls 6 Music
2026-08-20 05:07 No You Girls 6 Music
2026-08-19 12:13 Michael 6 Music
2026-08-09 21:13 Take Me Out Radio 1
2026-08-06 07:09 No You Girls 6 Music
2026-08-04 02:18 Take Me Out Radio 1
2026-08-03 15:33 Do You Want To 6 Music
2026-07-31 13:33 Take Me Out 6 Music
2026-07-29 02:46 Take Me Out Radio 1
2026-07-24 20:55 Evil Eye 6 Music
2026-07-24 03:02 Do You Want To 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

248 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
40 — 1 ▶
40 feat. - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
40 ft — 2 ▶
40 Ft - Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
40 Ft - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
40' — 1 ▶
40' (Radio 1 In Concert, 13 Apr 2004) — 1 ▶
All My Friends — 3 ▶
Always Ascending — 125 ▶
Always Ascending (6 Music Session, 7th Feb 2018) — 1 ▶
Always Ascending (Nina Kraviz Late Night Remix) — 1 ▶
Always Ascending (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 1 ▶
Audacious — 53 ▶
Audacious (6 Music Session, 06 Jan 2025) — 3 ▶
Audacious (Sofa Session, 27 Nov 2024) — 1 ▶
Auf Achse — 3 ▶
Auf Achse - Carling Academy Liverpool 2003 — 1 ▶
Auf Achse - Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003 — 3 ▶
Backwards On My Face — 1 ▶
Bar Lonely — 37 ▶
Bar Lonely (6 Music Session, 06 Jan 2025) — 1 ▶
Better On Holiday - Carling Academy Liverpool 2003 — 1 ▶
Better On Holiday - Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003 — 3 ▶
Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation — 1 ▶
Billy Goodbye — 47 ▶
Billy Goodbye (Independent Venue Week 2022, 31st Jan 2021) — 1 ▶
Billy Goodbye (live) — 1 ▶
Bite Hard — 3 ▶
Brief Encounters — 1 ▶
Build It Up — 2 ▶
Build It Up (feat. Johnny Marr) — 55 ▶
Bullet — 71 ▶
Bullet : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Call Me — 4 ▶
Can't Stop Feeling — 104 ▶
Can't Stop Feeling (Live at T in the Park 2009) <clean> — 1 ▶
Can't Stop Feeling : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Can't Stop Feeling/I Feel Love (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) — 1 ▶
Cheating on You — 1 ▶
Cheating On You (BBC Radio Scotland Session, 2003) — 1 ▶
Cheating On You - 6Music Session 2003 — 3 ▶
Cheating On You - Carling Academy Liverpool 2003 — 1 ▶
Cheating On You - Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003 — 3 ▶
Cheating On You - Glasgow 2004 — 2 ▶
Cheating On You - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Cheating On You - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 3 ▶
Come On Home — 6 ▶
Come On Home - Glasgow 2004 — 3 ▶
Come On Home - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
Come On Home - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
Come On Home. — 1 ▶
Curious — 32 ▶
Curious (6 Music Session, 31st Jan 2021) — 1 ▶
Darts of Pleasure — 73 ▶
Darts Of Pleasure — 62 ▶
Darts Of Pleasure (Live At Radio 1's Big Weekend 2004) — 1 ▶
Darts Of Pleasure (Radio 1 In Concert, 13 Apr 2004) — 4 ▶
Darts Of Pleasure - Glasgow 2004 — 3 ▶
Darts Of Pleasure - Glasgow 2004 — 5 ▶
Darts Of Pleasure - Glasgow Barrowlands 2004 — 1 ▶
Darts Of Pleasure - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Do You Wanna (Live From Glast '09) — 1 ▶
Do You Want To — 355 ▶
Do You Want To (6 Music Festival 2014) — 1 ▶
Do You Want To (Erol Alkan Glam Remix) — 1 ▶
Do You Want To (Erol Alkan Mix) — 1 ▶
Do You Want To (Erol Alkan Mix) (AM Edit) — 3 ▶
Do You Want To (Erol Alkan's Glam Racket) — 1 ▶
Do You Want To (Independent Venue Week 2022, 31st Jan 2021) — 2 ▶
Do You Want To (Metronomy Remix) — 1 ▶
Do You Want To (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 3 ▶
Do You Want To - Live Glastonbury 2009 — 1 ▶
Do You Want To - Live From Glastonbury 2009 — 1 ▶
Do You Want To : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 2 ▶
Eleanor Put Your Boots On — 145 ▶
Eleanor Put Your Boots On (Radio Edit) — 2 ▶
Everydaydreamer — 2 ▶
Evil Eye — 77 ▶
Evil Eye (Alan Braxe remix) — 3 ▶
Evil Eye (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) — 1 ▶
Fade Together — 1 ▶
Feel the Love Go — 111 ▶
Feel The Love Go (6 Music Session, 7 February 2018) — 1 ▶
Feel The Love Go (6 Music Session, 7th Feb 2018) — 1 ▶
Feel The Love Go (Radio 2 session, 19 Feb 2018) — 1 ▶
Feel The Love Go (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 2 ▶
Feel the Love Go (Âme Remix) — 1 ▶
Finally — 1 ▶
Finally (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 1 ▶
Franz Ferdinand — 1 ▶
Franz Ferdinand Big Weekend Zane — 1 ▶
Franz Ferdinand recorded at the 6 Music Festival (01/03/14) — 1 ▶
Fresh Strawberries — 35 ▶
Fresh Strawberries : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Get Up and Use Me — 1 ▶
Glimpse of Love — 3 ▶
Glimpse Of Love (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 2 ▶
Glimpse Of Love (Version) — 107 ▶
Good Luck, Babe! (Sofa Session, 27 Nov 2024) — 2 ▶
Goodbye Friends And Lovers — 1 ▶
Goodbye Lover & Friends — 1 ▶
Hallam Foe Dandelion Blow — 2 ▶
Headline Set T In The Park 2006 — 1 ▶
Hooked — 36 ▶
Hooked (6 Music Session, 06 Jan 2025) — 2 ▶
Jackie Jackson — 2 ▶
Jacqueline — 10 ▶
Jacqueline - 6Music Session 2003 — 1 ▶
Jacqueline - Glasgow 2004 — 7 ▶
Jacqueline - Glasgow Barrowlands 2004 — 1 ▶
Jacqueline - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 5 ▶
Katherine Hit Me — 4 ▶
Katherine Kiss Me — 1 ▶
L Wells (CH) — 1 ▶
Lazy Boy — 1 ▶
Leaving My Old Life Behind — 2 ▶
Live Alone — 3 ▶
Love and Destroy — 1 ▶
Love And Destroy (Radio 1 In Concert, 13 Apr 2004) — 2 ▶
Love And Destroy - Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Love And Destroy - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 2 ▶
Love Illumination — 2 ▶
Love Illumination (Radio 1 Maida Vale Session) — 1 ▶
Love Illumination : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Lucid Dreams — 43 ▶
Lucid Dreams : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Matinee — 117 ▶
Matinee (Radio 2 session, 19 Feb 2018) — 1 ▶
Matinee (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 1 ▶
Matinee - Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Matinee - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 2 ▶
Matinee - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
Matinee/Walk Away/Eleanor Put Those Heels — 1 ▶
Matinée: Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Michael — 93 ▶
Michael (Live At Radio 1's Big Weekend 2004) — 1 ▶
Michael (live) — 1 ▶
Michael (Radio 1 In Concert, 13 Apr 2004) — 7 ▶
Michael - Carling Academy Liverpool 2003 — 1 ▶
Michael - Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003 — 5 ▶
Michael - Glasgow 2004 — 3 ▶
Michael - Glasgow 2004 — 8 ▶
Michael - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Michael : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Night or Day — 83 ▶
Night Or Day (6 Music Session, 06 Jan 2025) — 2 ▶
Night Or Day (Radio 2 Piano Room, 24 Feb 2025) — 4 ▶
Night or Day (Sofa Session, 27 Nov 2024) — 1 ▶
No You Girls — 528 ▶
No You Girls (dub version) — 1 ▶
No You Girls (Independent Venue Week 2022, 31st Jan 2022) — 3 ▶
No You Girls (John Disco Vox Remix) — 1 ▶
No You Girls (Live at the 6Music Festival) — 1 ▶
No You Girls (Performed live at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Swindon) — 1 ▶
No You Girls (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 1 ▶
No You Girls (The Juan MacLean Instrumental) — 1 ▶
No You Girls (The Juan Maclean Remix) — 1 ▶
No You Girls (Vince Clark Remix) — 1 ▶
No You Girls : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
No You Girls <Live Lounge> — 1 ▶
Outsiders — 1 ▶
Paper Cages (6 Music Session, 7 February 2018) — 1 ▶
Paper Cages (Radio 2 at Edinburgh Festivals, 22 Aug 2018) — 1 ▶
Right Action — 105 ▶
Right Action (Liv Spencer Rework) — 1 ▶
Shopping For Blood — 1 ▶
Shopping For Blood - Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Shopping For Blood - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 3 ▶
Shopping For Blood - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
Shoppping For Blood (BBC Radio Scotland Session, 2003) — 1 ▶
Slow Dont Kill Me Slow — 1 ▶
Sound And Vision — 7 ▶
Sound And Vision (Feat. Girls Aloud) — 11 ▶
Stand on the Horizon — 11 ▶
Stand On The Horizon (Todd Terje Remix) — 1 ▶
Stand On The Horizon : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Take Me Out — 845 ▶
Take Me Out Secc Scotland 2005 — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (6 Music Festival 1 March 2014) — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (Album Version) — 12 ▶
Take Me Out (Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003) — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (Daft Punk remix) — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (Live At Radio 1's Big Weekend 2004) — 2 ▶
Take Me Out (Live From Radio 1's Big Weekend in Swindon) — 2 ▶
Take Me Out (long version) — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (Naum Gabo remix) — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (Radio 1 In Concert, 13 Apr 2004) — 3 ▶
Take Me Out (Radio 2 at Edinburgh Festivals, 22 Aug 2018) — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (Radio 2 Piano Room, 24 Feb 2025) — 11 ▶
Take Me Out (Sofa Session, 27 Nov 2024) — 1 ▶
Take Me Out (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 6 ▶
Take Me Out - Carling Academy Liverpool 2003 — 1 ▶
Take Me Out - Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003 — 4 ▶
Take Me Out - Glasgow 2004 — 12 ▶
Take Me Out - Glasgow Barrowlands 2004 — 1 ▶
Take Me Out - Live at the 6 Music Festival 2014 — 2 ▶
Take Me Out - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 5 ▶
Take Me Out - Secc Scotland 2005 — 1 ▶
Take Me Out : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Take Me Out <Live from T In The Park 2006> — 1 ▶
Tell Her Tonight — 6 ▶
Tell Her Tonight - Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Tell Her Tonight - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 4 ▶
Tell Her Tonight - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 3 ▶
Tell Her Tonight / Shopping For Blood - Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003 — 3 ▶
The Academy Award — 1 ▶
The Dark Of The Matine (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
The Dark of the Matinée — 47 ▶
The Fallen — 45 ▶
The Fallen (Justice remix) — 1 ▶
The Fallen : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
The Universe Expanded — 1 ▶
This Fffire — 8 ▶
This Fire — 10 ▶
This Fire (Playgroup Remix) — 2 ▶
This Fire - Carling Academy Liverpool 2003 — 1 ▶
This Fire - Glasgow 2004 — 6 ▶
This Fire - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 1 ▶
This Fire - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 2 ▶
This Fire- Carling Academy, Liverpool 2003 — 3 ▶
Toxic (Radio 2 Piano Room, 24 Feb 2025) — 10 ▶
Treason Animals — 9 ▶
Truck Shop — 1 ▶
Truck Shop - Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow 2004 — 2 ▶
Turn It On — 1 ▶
Twilight Omens — 11 ▶
Ulysses — 260 ▶
Ulysses (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation) — 3 ▶
Ulysses (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Remix) — 2 ▶
Ulysses (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve) — 2 ▶
Ulysses (Max Tundra Remix) — 1 ▶
Ulysses (The Disco Bloodbath Effect) — 1 ▶
Ulysses : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Ulysses <Maida Vale Session> — 17 ▶
Ur Hand by Pink and Take Me Out — 1 ▶
Walk Away — 67 ▶
Walk Away (Acou) — 1 ▶
Walk Away (Radio 2 at Edinburgh Festivals, 22 Aug 2018) — 1 ▶
Walk Away (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 1 ▶
Walk Away : Live At The 6 Music Festival — 1 ▶
Walk Away <acoustic> — 1 ▶
Walk Away. — 26 ▶
What She Came For — 18 ▶
What She Came For (Tiger Style Remix) — 1 ▶
What You Waiting For <Live Lounge> — 1 ▶
Womanizer <Live Lounge> — 4 ▶
You Could Have It So Much Better — 1 ▶
You're the Reason I'm Leaving — 3 ▶