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Joy Division

Joy Division is a group from the UK, active from 1978.

Group GB 1978–1980 post-punk new wave gothic rock
TOTAL PLAYS
2,112
SONGS PLAYED
98
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-14 21:59 · 6 Music — "Shadowplay"
LAST PLAYED
3 weeks ago · 6 Music — "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
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 1,700 80%
Radio 2 346 16%
Radio 1 59 3%
1Xtra 7 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 14:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Love Will Tear Us Apart 770 2026-08-16
2 Transmission 286 2026-07-26
3 She's Lost Control 247 2025-12-12
4 Atmosphere 195 2026-05-06
5 Isolation 92 2025-09-25
6 Shadowplay 73 2025-11-22
7 Disorder 69 2026-05-08
8 Shadow Play 26 2016-07-27
9 Twenty Four Hours 25 2025-12-24
10 Twenty-Four Hours 24 2016-07-16
11 Digital 21 2026-05-19
12 Insight 21 2021-09-12
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-16 08:16 Love Will Tear Us Apart 6 Music
2026-07-26 17:33 Transmission 6 Music
2026-07-22 19:56 Love Will Tear Us Apart Radio 2
2026-07-20 15:33 Love Will Tear Us Apart 6 Music
2026-07-19 18:09 I Remember Nothing 6 Music
2026-05-19 13:13 Digital 6 Music
2026-05-12 13:41 Decades 6 Music
2026-05-12 05:22 Transmission 6 Music
2026-05-10 18:33 Love Will Tear Us Apart 6 Music
2026-05-08 20:07 Disorder 6 Music
2026-05-06 08:55 Atmosphere 6 Music
2026-05-05 22:46 Disorder 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

98 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
24 Hour - BBC Session 26/11/1979 — 6 ▶
24 Hours — 1 ▶
24 Hours - Paris 1979 — 2 ▶
A Means to an End — 2 ▶
A Means To An End (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Atmosphere — 195 ▶
Atmosphere - 2020 Digital Remaster — 1 ▶
Atrocity Exhibition — 5 ▶
Candidate — 1 ▶
Colony — 2 ▶
Colony (BBC Maida Vale Session, 26 Nov 1979) — 3 ▶
Colony (John Peel Session 1979) — 1 ▶
Colony - BBC Session 26/11/1979 — 6 ▶
Day of the Lords — 5 ▶
Dead Souls — 14 ▶
Decades — 15 ▶
Digital — 21 ▶
Digital (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Disintegration — 6 ▶
Disorder — 69 ▶
Disorder (live) — 2 ▶
Disorder - — 1 ▶
Exercise One — 13 ▶
Exercise One (John Peel Session 31.01.1979) — 2 ▶
Exercise One - BBC Session 31/01/1979 — 1 ▶
Exercise One (John Peel Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 6 ▶
Exercise One (Radio 1 Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 3 ▶
Exercise One - BBC Session 1979 — 2 ▶
Failures — 1 ▶
Glass (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Heart and Soul — 11 ▶
I Remember Nothing — 2 ▶
Ice Age — 7 ▶
Incubation — 2 ▶
Insight — 21 ▶
Insight - BBC Session 31/01/1979 — 1 ▶
Insight (John Peel Session 31/01/1979) — 2 ▶
Insight (John Peel Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 1 ▶
Insight (Radio 1 Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 3 ▶
Insight - BBC Session 31/01/1979 — 1 ▶
Interzone — 2 ▶
Isolation — 92 ▶
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart/She's Lost Control/Isolation — 1 ▶
Joy Division – Love will Tear Us Apart — 1 ▶
Komakino — 2 ▶
Leaders Of Men (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart — 770 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart (BBC Maida Vale Session, 26 Nov 1979) — 1 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart (BBC Session) — 2 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Curtis&Maefield Remix) — 1 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart (John Peel session) — 1 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart (John Peel Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 3 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live at Maida Vale) — 1 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart (session) — 1 ▶
Love Will Tear Us Apart - BBC Session 26/11/1979 — 5 ▶
Means to an End — 3 ▶
New Dawn Fades — 14 ▶
No Love Lost — 4 ▶
Novelty — 1 ▶
Shadow Play — 26 ▶
Shadowplay — 73 ▶
She's Lost Control — 247 ▶
She's Lost Control (12" version) — 1 ▶
She's Lost Control (BBC session) — 6 ▶
She's Lost Control (John Pee; Session 31/01/1979) — 1 ▶
She's Lost Control (John Peel Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 1 ▶
She's Lost Control (Radio 1 Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 2 ▶
She's Lost Control - BBC Session 31/01/1979 — 1 ▶
She's Lost Control - Peel Session 79 — 1 ▶
Shes Lost Control (12" Version) — 2 ▶
She’s Lost Control — 1 ▶
Sister Ray — 2 ▶
Sound Of Music (BBC Maida Vale Session, 26 Nov 1979) — 2 ▶
Sound of Music (John Peel Session 1979) — 1 ▶
Sound Of Music - BBC Session 26/11/1979 — 7 ▶
The Eternal — 5 ▶
The Only Mistake — 1 ▶
These Days — 10 ▶
Transmission — 286 ▶
Transmission (John Peel Session 31/01/1979) — 2 ▶
Transmission - BBC Session 31/01/1979 — 1 ▶
Transmission (BBC Session 31/01/79) — 1 ▶
Transmission (BBC session) — 2 ▶
Transmission (Cast version) — 1 ▶
Transmission (John Peel Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 1 ▶
Transmission (live) — 1 ▶
Transmission (Radio 1 Session, 31 Jan 1979) — 2 ▶
Transmission - BBC Session 1979 — 3 ▶
Transmission <Peel Session> — 1 ▶
Twenty Four Hours — 25 ▶
Twenty Four Hours (2020 Digital Master) — 1 ▶
Twenty Four Hours (BBC Maida Vale Session, 26 Nov 1979) — 7 ▶
Twenty Four Hours (John Peel Session 1979) — 1 ▶
Twenty-Four Hours — 24 ▶
Twenty-Four Hours (BBC Session) — 5 ▶
Walked in Line — 1 ▶
Warsaw — 8 ▶
Wilderness — 3 ▶