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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five is a group from the US, active from 1976.

Group US 1976–1988 hip hop east coast hip hop conscious hip hop
TOTAL PLAYS
343
SONGS PLAYED
25
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2009-02-25 23:14 · Radio 1 — "Adventures of Grandmaster Flash"
LAST PLAYED
5 months ago · Radio 2 — "The Message"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2009 — 2025
50 38 25 13 0
'09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 219 64%
Radio 2 113 33%
Radio 1 11 3%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 23:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 The Message 198 2025-11-28
2 Scorpio 79 2024-07-28
3 The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash... 13 2024-09-28
4 The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On the Wheels of Steel 9 2022-07-30
5 The Message (Feat. The Furious Five) 7 2014-12-24
6 Freedom 6 2020-02-08
7 New York New York 5 2018-06-01
8 Step Off 3 2024-11-09
9 The Message (Soulboss & O. Norstad Remix) [Clean] 3 2018-12-15
10 White Lines (Davidson Ospina Club Mix) 2 2024-06-14
11 Super Rappin' 2 2023-07-22
12 The Birthday Party 2 2022-09-22
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-11-28 22:34 The Message Radio 2
2025-11-08 21:47 The Message Radio 2
2025-09-23 10:47 The Message Radio 2
2025-09-17 18:26 The Message Radio 2
2025-07-31 19:46 The Message Radio 2
2025-07-08 18:13 The Message Radio 2
2025-06-20 23:56 The Message Radio 2
2025-06-10 22:10 The Message Radio 2
2025-01-18 00:47 The Message Radio 2
2024-11-26 22:19 The Message Radio 2
2024-11-09 22:07 Step Off Radio 2
2024-10-17 12:14 The Message 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

25 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Adventures of Grandmaster Flash — 1 ▶
Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel — 1 ▶
Apache — 1 ▶
Beat Street — 2 ▶
Flash It to the Beat — 1 ▶
Freedom — 6 ▶
Freedom (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel — 1 ▶
It's Nasty (Genius of Love) — 1 ▶
New York New York — 5 ▶
Pump Me Up (Extended Mix) — 1 ▶
Scorpio — 79 ▶
She’s Fresh — 1 ▶
Step Off — 3 ▶
Super Rappin 2 — 1 ▶
Super Rappin' — 2 ▶
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On the Wheels of Steel — 9 ▶
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash... — 13 ▶
The Birthday Party — 2 ▶
The Message — 198 ▶
The Message (Feat. The Furious Five) — 7 ▶
The Message (instrumental) — 1 ▶
The Message (Soulboss & O. Norstad Remix) — 1 ▶
The Message (Soulboss & O. Norstad Remix) [Clean] — 3 ▶
White Lines (Davidson Ospina Club Mix) — 2 ▶