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Johnny Osbourne

Johnny Osbourne is a person from JM, active since 1948.

Person JM since 1948 reggae dancehall roots reggae
TOTAL PLAYS
328
SONGS PLAYED
103
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2008-02-10 01:03 · 6 Music — "Buddy Bye"
LAST PLAYED
1 month ago · 1Xtra — "We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley)"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2008 — 2026
60 45 30 15 0
'08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

1Xtra 187 57%
6 Music 108 33%
Radio 1 27 8%
Radio 2 6 2%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 04:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Buddy Bye 33 2025-08-06
2 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 22 2026-04-19
3 Ice Cream Love 17 2024-09-17
4 Truth And Rights 10 2023-01-22
5 We Need Love 9 2025-08-24
6 Fally Ranking 8 2023-05-07
7 Little Sound Boy 8 2018-03-18
8 Ready or Not 7 2024-05-26
9 Truth And Rights (Radio 1 Session, 15 Mar 1984) 7 2021-09-27
10 Truths and Rights 7 2021-08-30
11 Que Sera, Sera 6 2026-01-11
12 No Ice Cream Sound 5 2024-11-17
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-04-19 03:04 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
2026-04-12 12:04 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
2026-03-22 05:02 Forgive Them 1Xtra
2026-03-15 14:02 Forgive Them 1Xtra
2026-02-01 05:41 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
2026-01-25 14:41 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
2026-01-11 04:35 Que Sera, Sera 1Xtra
2026-01-04 13:35 Que Sera, Sera 1Xtra
2026-01-04 05:35 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
2025-12-28 13:35 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
2025-12-28 04:03 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
2025-12-21 13:03 We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) 1Xtra
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

103 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Bu da bye — 4 ▶
Budda Bye (Remix) — 1 ▶
Buddy Bye — 33 ▶
BUDDY BYE (Seani Dub) — 1 ▶
Buddy Bye Bye — 2 ▶
Budy Bye (Seani B Dub) — 1 ▶
Budy Eye — 1 ▶
Can't Buy Love — 1 ▶
Cease Fire (Feat. Macka B) — 2 ▶
Chain Grabber — 2 ▶
Come Back Darling — 5 ▶
Dead (Nothing Said) — 1 ▶
Don't Need No Ice Cream Love (Feat. Alborosie) — 2 ▶
Dub Plate In The Ghetto — 1 ▶
Dub Plate Playing: Murderer — 4 ▶
DUB PLATES IN THE GHETTO — 1 ▶
Dubplate Playing — 5 ▶
Dubplates In The Ghetto — 2 ▶
Eternal Peace — 2 ▶
Fally Rankin (V.I.V.E.K remix) — 1 ▶
Fally Rankin (Vivek Remix) — 4 ▶
Fally Rankin V.I.V.E.K Mix — 1 ▶
Fally Ranking — 8 ▶
Fally Ranking (V.I.V.E.K Remix) — 4 ▶
Fally Ranking (V.I.V.E.K. Remix) — 2 ▶
Fally Ranking V.I.V.E.K (Remix) — 1 ▶
Folly Ranking — 1 ▶
Forgive Them — 4 ▶
Get Cracking (Radio 1 Session, 15 Mar 1984) — 3 ▶
Get Cracking - BBC Session 15/03/1984 — 2 ▶
GET UP — 1 ▶
Give A Little Love — 5 ▶
Give A Little Love (Radio 1 Session, 15 Mar 1984) — 4 ▶
Give A Little Love - BBC Session 15/03/1984 — 2 ▶
Give More Dub — 2 ▶
Ice Cream Love — 17 ▶
if you a warrior — 2 ▶
In The Are (What A La La) — 1 ▶
In Your Eyes (Aries & Gold Refix) — 2 ▶
In Your Eyes (Aries & Gold Remix) (feat. Aries & Gold) — 2 ▶
It No Nice — 4 ▶
Jah Ovah — 1 ▶
Jah Promise — 5 ▶
Jah Promise (David Rodigan Dubplate) — 4 ▶
Jungle Buddy Bye — 1 ▶
Kiss Somebody — 5 ▶
Let Him Go — 1 ▶
Line Up — 3 ▶
Little Sound Boy — 8 ▶
Love Is Universal — 4 ▶
Mr Marshall — 4 ▶
Mr. Marshall (Dub Mix 2) — 1 ▶
Murderer — 1 ▶
Murderer (Phibes Remix) — 1 ▶
Murderer / We Gonna Rock It Tonight (David Rodigan Dubplate) — 4 ▶
Never Stop Fighting — 1 ▶
Night Fall (extended mix) — 1 ▶
Nightfall — 3 ▶
Nightfall (Extended Mix) — 1 ▶
No Ice Cream Sound — 5 ▶
No Ice Cream Sound (ML Dub) — 1 ▶
On The Right Track — 1 ▶
People A Watch Me — 1 ▶
PURIFY YOUR HEART — 3 ▶
Que Sera Sera — 2 ▶
Que Sera, Sera — 6 ▶
Ready or Not — 7 ▶
Reasons — 2 ▶
Reasons (Ayanna Heaven Dubplate) — 2 ▶
Right Time — 2 ▶
Rock It Tonight — 1 ▶
Rock It Tonight (Jah Works Dub) — 2 ▶
Rock It Tonight (Marcus Visionary Jungle Mix) — 1 ▶
Rock It Tonite (Selecta J-Man & Gray Remix) — 1 ▶
Rock With You — 2 ▶
Run Up Your Mouth — 2 ▶
Salute The Don (Visionary Remix) — 1 ▶
Saxon Nah Skin Up (Saxon Sound Dub) — 2 ▶
See & Blind — 3 ▶
Sing Along — 2 ▶
The Right Time (feat. Ras Demo) — 1 ▶
time a run out — 1 ▶
Truth & Rights — 4 ▶
Truth And Rights — 10 ▶
Truth and Rights (Massive B Dub) — 2 ▶
Truth And Rights (Radio 1 Session, 15 Mar 1984) — 7 ▶
Truth And Rights - BBC Session 15/03/1984 — 2 ▶
Truths & Rights — 1 ▶
Truths + Rights — 1 ▶
Truths and Rights — 7 ▶
Truths And Rights (Crown Dubplate Style) — 3 ▶
War Is Not The Answer — 1 ▶
Water Pumping — 1 ▶
Water Pumping (Radio 1 Session, 15 Mar 1984) — 3 ▶
Water Pumping - BBC Session 15/03/1984 — 2 ▶
We Need Love — 9 ▶
We Need Love (feat. Dean Fraser & Tarrus Riley) — 22 ▶
We Need Love (Feat. Tarrus Riley & Dean Fraser) — 1 ▶
We Need Love (Vocal) — 1 ▶
We Need More Dub — 4 ▶
We Steppin' — 1 ▶
Yo Yo (Version) — 1 ▶
Yo-Yo — 1 ▶