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Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff is a person from JM, active from 1944.

Person JM 1944–2025 reggae ska pop reggae
TOTAL PLAYS
1,456
SONGS PLAYED
73
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-03-09 12:17 · 6 Music — "Many Rivers To Cross"
LAST PLAYED
2 months ago · Radio 2 — "I Can See Clearly Now"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
200 150 100 50 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 700 48%
Radio 2 602 41%
1Xtra 144 10%
Radio 1 10 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 05:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 The Harder They Come 516 2026-05-26
2 Wonderful World, Beautiful People 249 2026-03-01
3 Many Rivers to Cross 152 2026-05-10
4 One More 117 2026-05-09
5 I Can See Clearly Now 72 2026-05-26
6 Guns Of Brixton 50 2025-11-25
7 Many Rivers To Cross 43 2011-11-21
8 You Can Get It If You Really Want 30 2025-11-29
9 Sitting In Limbo 25 2026-03-08
10 Miss Jamaica 23 2025-12-07
11 Vietnam 15 2026-01-04
12 Reggae Nights 15 2025-11-25
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-26 14:47 I Can See Clearly Now Radio 2
2026-05-26 13:26 The Harder They Come 6 Music
2026-05-20 22:54 The Harder They Come 1Xtra
2026-05-14 03:42 The Harder They Come 1Xtra
2026-05-10 07:50 Many Rivers to Cross 6 Music
2026-05-09 05:26 One More 6 Music
2026-05-05 03:42 The Harder They Come 1Xtra
2026-05-03 22:46 Many Rivers to Cross Radio 2
2026-04-26 00:12 The Harder They Come 1Xtra
2026-04-22 03:42 The Harder They Come 1Xtra
2026-04-15 23:12 The Harder They Come 1Xtra
2026-04-14 14:35 The Harder They Come Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

73 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Better Days Are Coming — 1 ▶
Born to Win — 1 ▶
Brother — 1 ▶
Children's Bread — 1 ▶
Commercialization — 3 ▶
Dreaming — 1 ▶
Every Tub — 1 ▶
Fundamental Reggay — 1 ▶
Goodbye Yesterday — 4 ▶
Goodbye Yesterday (BBC session) — 1 ▶
Goodbye Yesterday - BBC Session — 2 ▶
Guns Of Brixton — 50 ▶
Guns of Brixton — 1 ▶
Hard Road To Travel — 8 ▶
House Of Exile — 1 ▶
Human Touch — 4 ▶
Humanitarian (feat. Bounty Killer & Capleton) — 1 ▶
Hurricane Hatty — 4 ▶
I can see clearly — 12 ▶
I Can See Clearly Now — 72 ▶
Journey — 2 ▶
King Of Kings — 11 ▶
Let Your Yeah Be Yeah — 2 ▶
Many Rivers to Cross — 152 ▶
Many Rivers To Cross — 43 ▶
Many Rivers To Cross (Glastonbury 2011) — 1 ▶
Many Rivers To Cross - Glastonbury 2011 — 1 ▶
Miss Jamaica — 23 ▶
No 1 Rip-Off Man — 1 ▶
Oh Jamaica — 3 ▶
one eyed jacks — 1 ▶
One More — 117 ▶
One More - BBC Radio 6 Music session 18/07/2012 — 2 ▶
Reggae Music — 2 ▶
Reggae Night — 1 ▶
Reggae Nights — 15 ▶
Roots Radical — 2 ▶
Rub a Dub Partner — 1 ▶
Ruby Soho — 1 ▶
Ruby Soho (Rancid cover) — 1 ▶
Ruby Solo — 1 ▶
Sitting In Limbo — 25 ▶
Sooner Or Later — 1 ▶
Struggling Man — 2 ▶
Sufferin' In The Land — 6 ▶
The Harder They Come — 516 ▶
The Harder They Come BBC Session — 1 ▶
The Harder They Come (live) — 2 ▶
THE HARDER THEY COME - (Commercial Recording) — 2 ▶
The Harder They Come - BBC Session — 2 ▶
The Man — 1 ▶
The Rebel in Me — 2 ▶
Time Will Tell — 1 ▶
Treat The Youths Right — 1 ▶
Vietnam — 15 ▶
Vietnam - Guilfest 2007 — 2 ▶
Waterfall — 4 ▶
Wild World — 12 ▶
Wonderful World — 1 ▶
Wonderful World, Beautiful People — 249 ▶
Wonderful World, Beautiful People BBC Session — 1 ▶
Wonderful World, Beautiful People (BBC session ) — 1 ▶
Wonderful World, Beautiful People - BBC Session — 2 ▶
World Upside Down — 2 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want — 30 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want (Alternate Version) — 1 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want (Glastonbury 2001 West Holts Stage) — 1 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want (Glastonbury 2011) — 1 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want (Live at Glastonbury) — 1 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want - Glastonbury 2011 — 1 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want It — 13 ▶
You Can Get It If You Really Want It (Glastonbury 2011) — 3 ▶
You Can Get It If Your Really Want — 1 ▶