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James

James is a person from Germany, active from 1929.

Person DE 1929–2015 german jazz easy listening
TOTAL PLAYS
3,424
SONGS PLAYED
210
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-21 12:14 · 6 Music — "I Know What I'm Here For"
LAST PLAYED
2 months ago · Radio 2 — "Sit Down"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 2,090 61%
Radio 2 1,306 38%
Radio 1 28 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 16:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Sit Down 672 2026-05-21
2 Laid 378 2026-05-05
3 She's a Star 265 2026-05-20
4 Sometimes 190 2026-05-21
5 Come Home 185 2026-05-12
6 Nothing But Love 100 2025-07-19
7 Whiteboy 94 2015-04-27
8 Born Of Frustration 87 2026-02-23
9 To My Surprise 79 2016-01-31
10 Hallelujah Anyhow 76 2026-02-20
11 Moving On 67 2017-12-21
12 She's A Star 65 2011-11-16
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-21 17:04 Sit Down Radio 2
2026-05-21 02:39 Sometimes Radio 2
2026-05-20 23:21 She's a Star Radio 2
2026-05-18 06:46 Sit Down Radio 2
2026-05-15 09:55 Sometimes 6 Music
2026-05-12 23:22 Come Home 6 Music
2026-05-05 11:28 Laid 6 Music
2026-05-05 04:20 Sit Down Radio 2
2026-05-04 17:16 Come Home 6 Music
2026-05-02 01:47 Sit Down Radio 2
2026-04-26 16:47 Sit Down Radio 2
2026-04-25 22:40 Sit Down Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

210 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
All I'm Saying — 33 ▶
All I'm Saying (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2014) — 1 ▶
All In My Mind — 1 ▶
All My Sons — 2 ▶
All The Colours Of You — 46 ▶
All The Colours Of You (Sofa Session, 21 April 2021) — 1 ▶
Attention — 1 ▶
Be The One (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Beautiful Beaches — 18 ▶
Beautiful Beaches (Radio 2 Session, 4 June 2021) — 1 ▶
Beautiful Beaches (Sofa Session, 21 April 2021) — 2 ▶
Better Than That — 57 ▶
Better With You — 2 ▶
Born Of Frustration — 87 ▶
Born Of Frustration - Brixton Academy 1993 — 1 ▶
Born Of Frustration 1993 — 4 ▶
Bubbles — 1 ▶
Busted — 1 ▶
Catapult (Radio 2 Session, 15th June 2016) — 1 ▶
Chain Mail — 1 ▶
Chicken Wire (Radio 1 Session 3 Oct 1983) — 1 ▶
Chicken Wire - BBC Session 03/10/1983 — 3 ▶
Chicken Wire - BBC Session 03/10/2004 — 2 ▶
Cold Little Heart (Radio 2 Session, 4 Jun 2021) — 1 ▶
Come Home — 185 ▶
Come Home (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2014) — 1 ▶
Come Home (6 Music Session, 15 June 2014) — 1 ▶
Come Home (Andrew Weatherall Mix) — 1 ▶
Come Home (andy weatherall mix) — 1 ▶
Come Home (CH) — 1 ▶
Come Home (Flood Mix) — 2 ▶
Come Home (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 2 ▶
Come Home (Radio 1 Session, 10 Apr 1990) — 5 ▶
Come Home (Radio 2 Session, 15th June 2016) — 1 ▶
Come Home (the andy weatherall mix) — 2 ▶
Come Home (The Andy Weatherall remix) — 1 ▶
Come Home (Weatherall remix) — 1 ▶
Come Home - BBC Session 1990 — 1 ▶
Coming Home (Pt. 2) — 43 ▶
Coming Home (Pt.2) (Radio 2 Session, 7 Aug 2018) — 1 ▶
Coming Home (Version 2) — 1 ▶
Coming Home Pt.2 — 2 ▶
Concerto For Trumpet — 1 ▶
Crash — 1 ▶
Crazy — 32 ▶
Crazy (6 Music Session, 14th Apr 2010) — 1 ▶
Curse Curse — 6 ▶
Curse Curse Curse — 1 ▶
Dear John — 2 ▶
Dear John - Live In Session — 1 ▶
Dear John (Radio 2 Session, 15th June 2016) — 1 ▶
Destiny Calling — 56 ▶
Disipline - BBC Session 03/10/1983 — 2 ▶
Disipline - BBC Session 03/10/2004 — 2 ▶
Dust Motes — 1 ▶
Fairground — 1 ▶
Falling Down — 1 ▶
Feet Of Clay — 1 ▶
Fire So Close — 1 ▶
Five-O — 1 ▶
Fix You (Sofa Session, 17 April 2024) — 2 ▶
Folks — 2 ▶
Fred Astaire (6 Music Session, 15 June 2014) — 2 ▶
Fred Astaire - 6 Music Session 04/05/2007 — 1 ▶
Frozen Britain — 32 ▶
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) — 17 ▶
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2014) — 1 ▶
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) (6Music Session, 6 March 2014) — 1 ▶
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) (Sofa Session, 17 April 2024) — 2 ▶
Getting Myself Into — 1 ▶
Girl at the End of the World — 39 ▶
Gold Mother — 2 ▶
Gone Baby Gone — 1 ▶
Government Walls — 1 ▶
Hallelujah Anyhow — 76 ▶
Hank — 1 ▶
Heads — 3 ▶
Heart Of Gold (Radio 2 Session, 15th June 2016) — 1 ▶
Hello — 1 ▶
Hey Ma — 1 ▶
Honest Joe — 2 ▶
Honest Joe - Brixton Academy 1993 — 1 ▶
Honest Joe 1993 — 1 ▶
How Was It For You — 2 ▶
How Was It For You (Radio 1 Session, 10 Apr 1990) — 2 ▶
How Was It For You - BBC Session 1990 — 1 ▶
Hush — 1 ▶
Hymn From A Village — 15 ▶
Hymn From A Village BBC Session 03/10/2004 — 1 ▶
Hymn From A Village (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2014) — 1 ▶
Hymn From A Village (Radio 1 Session 3 Oct 1983) — 2 ▶
Hymn From A Village (Radio 1 Session, 3 Oct 1983) — 2 ▶
Hymn From A Village - BBC Session 03/10/1983 — 4 ▶
Hymn From A Village - BBC Session 03/10/2004 — 6 ▶
I Know What I'm Here For — 19 ▶
I Wanna Go Home (6 Music Session, 14th Apr 2010) — 1 ▶
I'm A Believer (Sofa Session, 21 April 2021) — 2 ▶
If Things Were Perfect — 1 ▶
Interrogation (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2014) — 1 ▶
Is This Love — 25 ▶
Is This Love (Sofa Session, 17 April 2024) — 3 ▶
Isabella — 1 ▶
Jam J — 1 ▶
Johnny Yen — 3 ▶
Just Like Fred Astair — 1 ▶
Just Like Fred Astaire — 63 ▶
Knuckle Too Far — 2 ▶
Knuckle Too Far 1993 — 3 ▶
Laid — 378 ▶
Laid 1993 — 9 ▶
Laid (6 Music Session, 14 Apr 2010) — 1 ▶
Laid (BBC session) — 6 ▶
Laid (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 2 ▶
Laid (Live on Jo & Ricky) — 1 ▶
Laid (R1 Session, 27th September 1993) — 1 ▶
Laid (Radio 2 Session, 7 Aug 2018) — 1 ▶
Laid - 6 Music Session 04/05/2007 — 2 ▶
Laid - Brixton Academy 1993 — 1 ▶
Laid - Hub Session 04/05/2007 — 2 ▶
Life's A Shocking Miracle — 33 ▶
Life's a Shocking Miracle (Glastonbury 2024) — 2 ▶
Look Away — 3 ▶
Lookaway — 4 ▶
Love Make A Fool — 5 ▶
Love Makes A Fool Out Of Me — 2 ▶
Low Low Low — 9 ▶
Low Low Low 1993 — 1 ▶
Low Low Low - Brixton Academy 1993 — 1 ▶
Lullaby — 3 ▶
Lullaby - Brixton Academy 1993 — 2 ▶
Lullaby 1993 — 4 ▶
Many Faces — 6 ▶
Mask — 1 ▶
Move Down South — 1 ▶
Moving On — 67 ▶
Moving On (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2014) — 1 ▶
Moving On (6 Music Session, 15 June 2014) — 1 ▶
Nothing But Love — 100 ▶
Nothing But Love (6 Music Session, 17 Mar 2016) — 9 ▶
Nothing But Love (Radio 2 Session, 15th June 2016) — 1 ▶
One of Three — 1 ▶
Our World — 46 ▶
Our World (Sofa Session, 17 April 2024) — 3 ▶
Out To Get You — 9 ▶
Out To Get You - Brixton Academy 1993 — 1 ▶
P.S. — 1 ▶
P.S. 1993 — 1 ▶
PS (6 Music Session, 15 June 2014) — 1 ▶
Recover — 1 ▶
Ring The Bells — 30 ▶
Runaground — 1 ▶
Say Something — 53 ▶
Seven — 1 ▶
She's a Star — 265 ▶
She's A Star — 65 ▶
She's A Star (Orchestral Version) — 11 ▶
She's A Star (Radio 2 Session, 15th June 2016) — 1 ▶
She's A Star - 6 Music Session 04/05/2007 — 1 ▶
Sit Down — 672 ▶
Sit Down (7" Rough Trade Version) — 1 ▶
Sit Down (Apollo 440 remix) — 2 ▶
Sit Down (BBC session) — 4 ▶
Sit Down (Glastonbury 2024) — 4 ▶
Sit Down (Orchetsral Version) — 1 ▶
Sit Down (Radio 2 Session, 4 Jun 21) — 1 ▶
Sit Down - Glastonbury Festival - RX 30/06/2024 — 1 ▶
Sit Down/I Know What Im Here For/She's A Star — 1 ▶
Sit Down:Radio 2 Session - 18th March 2016 — 1 ▶
Skindiving — 1 ▶
Skindiving 1993 — 1 ▶
Sometimes — 190 ▶
Sometimes 1993 — 3 ▶
Sometimes (6 Music Live 2014) — 1 ▶
Sometimes (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2014) — 1 ▶
Sometimes (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 2 ▶
Sometimes (Lester Piggott) — 1 ▶
Sometimes (Orchestral Version) — 3 ▶
Sometimes. — 10 ▶
Sound — 32 ▶
Sound (edit) — 1 ▶
Sound (Radio 2 Session, 15th June 2016) — 1 ▶
Sound - Brixton Academy 1993 — 2 ▶
Sound 1993 — 4 ▶
Stay — 2 ▶
Stripmining — 1 ▶
Stutter — 1 ▶
Sunday Morning — 10 ▶
Sunday Morning (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Sunday Morning (Radio 1 Session, 10 Apr 1990) — 2 ▶
Surfer's Song — 1 ▶
The Girl At The End Of The World — 3 ▶
To My Surprise — 79 ▶
Tomorrow — 31 ▶
Tomorrow (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 1 ▶
Top of the World — 2 ▶
Upside — 1 ▶
Vulture Bbc Session 19/10/1983 — 1 ▶
Vulture - BBC Session 03/10/1983 — 3 ▶
Vulture - BBC Session 03/10/2004 — 2 ▶
Wake Up Superman — 43 ▶
Waltzing Along — 4 ▶
Waterfall — 16 ▶
We're Going to Miss You — 2 ▶
We're Going To Miss You — 2 ▶
What For — 2 ▶
Wherever It Takes Us — 2 ▶
Whiteboy — 94 ▶
Who Are You — 18 ▶
Who Are You? — 17 ▶
Who Are You? - 6 Music Session 04/05/2007 — 1 ▶