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James Bay

James Bay is a person from the UK, active since 1990.

Person GB since 1990 pop soul alternative rock

TOTAL PLAYS

2,983

SONGS PLAYED

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2014-04-28 00:09 · Radio 1 — "Let It Go"

LAST PLAYED

1 month ago · Radio 1 — "Hold Back the River"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2014 — 2026

900 675 450 225 0

'14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24 '26

◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 1 1,877 63%

Radio 2 1,104 37%

1Xtra 2 0%

6 Music 0 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 10:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Hold Back the River 884 2026-09-13

2 Let It Go 405 2026-01-03

3 Best Fake Smile 318 2025-10-26

4 If You Ever Want to Be in Love 224 2019-02-20

5 Wild Love 179 2020-07-02

6 Us 112 2018-06-24

7 Up All Night (feat. The Lumineers & Noah Kahan) 89 2024-12-29

8 Just for Tonight 73 2018-09-06

9 Give Me the Reason 63 2022-04-29

10 All My Broken Pieces 62 2023-12-08

11 Sunshine In The Room (feat. Jon Batiste) 60 2025-04-06

12 You And Me Time (feat. Sheryl Crow) 57 2025-05-16

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-09-13 14:15 Hold Back the River Radio 1

2026-03-12 02:14 Hold Back the River Radio 1

2026-02-25 04:12 Hold Back the River Radio 2

2026-02-21 05:40 Break My Heart Right Radio 2

2026-02-08 09:31 Hold Back the River Radio 2

2026-01-03 10:22 Let It Go Radio 1

2025-12-23 22:31 Let It Go Radio 2

2025-11-30 23:31 Let It Go Radio 2

2025-11-16 11:26 Hold Back the River Radio 1

2025-10-26 11:51 Best Fake Smile Radio 1

2025-10-06 16:22 Hold Back the River Radio 2

2025-08-18 02:17 Hold Back the River Radio 2

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

98 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

BAR ▶

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher —

1 2015-05-22 ▶

All My Broken Pieces —

62 2023-12-08 ▶

All My Broken Pieces (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 Oct 2023) —

1 2023-10-19 ▶

All My Broken Pieces (Radio 2 Piano Room, 19 Oct 2023) —

2 2024-02-04 ▶

Bad —

7 2019-05-16 ▶

Best Fake Smile —

318 2025-10-26 ▶

Best Fake Smile (Radio 1 Session, 13 Jan 2015) —

1 2015-01-13 ▶

Best Fake Smile (Radio 1 Session, 13th Jan 2015) —

1 2015-01-14 ▶

Best Fake Smile (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015 —

1 2015-12-27 ▶

Best Fake Smile (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) —

1 2018-06-28 ▶

Break My Heart Right —

2 2026-02-21 ▶

Brilliant Still —

2 2022-07-13 ▶

Chew On My Heart —

40 2020-09-04 ▶

Clocks Go Forward —

1 2015-02-25 ▶

Collide —

1 2015-03-19 ▶

Collide (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2015-06-27 ▶

Collide (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) —

1 2015-12-27 ▶

Craving —

54 2016-07-28 ▶

Craving (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 14 July 2016) —

3 2016-07-15 ▶

Craving (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) —

1 2015-12-27 ▶

Delicate (Radio 1's Academy, 23 May 2018) —

4 2018-08-01 ▶

Don't Look Back In Anger (Radio 2 Session, 31 May 2019) —

4 2019-12-27 ▶

Easy Distraction —

33 2024-12-20 ▶

Easy Distraction (Sofa Session, 25 Sept 2024) —

3 2024-10-08 ▶

Everburn —

2 2024-12-17 ▶

Everyone Needs Someone —

2 2022-07-14 ▶

Falling (Radio 1 Live Lounge Sep 15 2014 ) —

2 2014-09-16 ▶

Forever (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 16 Sep 2014) —

10 2019-04-11 ▶

Four Five Seconds (Radio 1 Live Lounge 3rd March 2015) —

2 2018-01-12 ▶

FourFiveSeconds (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 3 Mar 2015) —

9 2021-12-14 ▶

Give Me the Reason —

63 2022-04-29 ▶

Go On —

2 2024-12-19 ▶

Goodbye Never Felt So Bad —

15 2023-10-18 ▶

Hold Back the River —

884 2026-09-13 ▶

Hold Back The River (BBC Music Awards 2015) —

3 2015-12-13 ▶

Hold Back The River (Glastonbury 2015) —

2 2015-06-28 ▶

Hold Back the River (Instrumental) —

5 2020-09-17 ▶

Hold Back the River (Maida Vale Session version) —

1 2016-01-24 ▶

Hold Back The River (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 3 Mar 2015) —

7 2016-02-16 ▶

Hold Back The River (Radio 1 Session, 13 Jan 2015) —

4 2015-02-02 ▶

Hold Back The River (Radio 1 Session, 18 Nov 2014) —

8 2014-12-10 ▶

Hold Back The River (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) —

3 2015-12-27 ▶

Hold Back The River (Radio 2 House Music, 31 Jul 20) —

1 2020-07-31 ▶

Hold Back The River (Radio 2 Session, 29 July 2022) —

1 2022-07-29 ▶

Hold Back The River (TITP 2016) —

1 2016-07-11 ▶

Hope —

28 2024-12-19 ▶

Hopeless Heart —

1 2024-12-16 ▶

Hymn For The Weekend (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 14 July 2016) —

5 2016-07-17 ▶

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Radio 2 Session, 29 July 2022) —

1 2022-07-29 ▶

I'm on Fire —

6 2016-05-30 ▶

If I Ain't Got You —

3 2015-06-06 ▶

If I Ain't Got You (Saturday Session Archive) —

1 2015-07-18 ▶

If You Ever (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2015-06-27 ▶

If You Ever Want to Be in Love —

224 2019-02-20 ▶

If You Ever Want To Be In Love (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) —

1 2015-12-27 ▶

In My Life (Sofa Session, 25 Sept 2024) —

3 2024-10-14 ▶

Incomplete —

2 2015-03-26 ▶

Just for Tonight —

73 2018-09-06 ▶

Kings Highway —

1 2017-07-15 ▶

Left Hand Free (Radio 1 Session, 18 Nov 2014) —

1 2014-11-19 ▶

Let It Go —

405 2026-01-03 ▶

Let It Go (Jack Steadman Remix) —

3 2015-05-26 ▶

Let It Go (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 16 Sep 2014) —

9 2022-08-11 ▶

Let It Go (Radio 1 Session, 13 Jan 2015) —

1 2015-01-13 ▶

Let It Go (Radio 1 Session, 18 Nov 2014) —

2 2014-12-10 ▶

Let It Go (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015) —

1 2015-12-27 ▶

Let It Go (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 Oct 2023) —

1 2023-10-19 ▶

Let It Go (Radio 2 Piano Room, 19 Oct 2023) —

2 2023-10-27 ▶

Let It Go (Radio 2 Session, 31 May 2019) —

1 2021-08-29 ▶

Let It Go - Radio 2 Session 14/01/2015 —

6 2015-07-21 ▶

Live performance —

1 2015-03-21 ▶

Love Don't Hate Me —

2 2022-07-15 ▶

Move Together —

4 2016-03-03 ▶

Need the Sun to Break —

2 2015-03-23 ▶

Nowhere Left To Go —

2 2022-07-14 ▶

One Life —

32 2022-07-17 ▶

One Life (Radio 2 Session, 29 July 2022) —

1 2022-07-29 ▶

Peer Pressure (feat. Julia Michaels) —

4 2019-03-28 ▶

Pink Lemonade —

6 2018-05-24 ▶

Right Now —

1 2022-07-18 ▶

Running —

3 2016-03-15 ▶

Save Your Love —

2 2022-07-15 ▶

Scars —

53 2017-04-16 ▶

Scars (Glastonbury 2015) —

1 2015-06-27 ▶

Scars (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 4 Sep 2015) —

1 2015-10-02 ▶

Scars (Radio 1 Session, 13 Jan 2015) —

2 2015-01-18 ▶

Slide —

3 2018-05-25 ▶

Sunshine In The Room (feat. Jon Batiste) —

60 2025-04-06 ▶

Torn (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 Oct 2023) —

1 2023-10-19 ▶

Torn (Radio 2 Piano Room, 19 Oct 2023) —

1 2023-10-22 ▶

Up All Night (feat. The Lumineers & Noah Kahan) —

89 2024-12-29 ▶

Up All Night (Sofa Session, 25 Sept 2024) —

1 2024-09-25 ▶

Us —

112 2018-06-24 ▶

Us (Embargoed until Friday 30th March) —

2 2018-04-09 ▶

Us (Radio 1's Academy, 23 May 2018) —

4 2018-05-24 ▶

When We Were on Fire —

3 2015-03-27 ▶

Wild Love —

179 2020-07-02 ▶

You And Me Time (feat. Sheryl Crow) —

57 2025-05-16 ▶