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Nick Drake

Nick Drake is a person from the UK, active from 1948.

Person GB 1948–1974 folk chamber folk contemporary folk
TOTAL PLAYS
1,323
SONGS PLAYED
104
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-03-03 07:01 · 6 Music — "River Man"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · Radio 2 — "One of These Things First"
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 1,116 84%
Radio 2 181 14%
Radio 1 26 2%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 20:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Northern Sky 269 2026-05-10
2 River Man 207 2026-05-10
3 Pink Moon 183 2026-07-27
4 Cello Song 86 2026-08-11
5 Time Has Told Me 73 2025-07-22
6 Saturday Sun 43 2026-08-02
7 Place to Be 33 2025-09-28
8 One of These Things First 27 2026-08-26
9 Fruit Tree 24 2025-10-06
10 From the Morning 22 2025-12-30
11 Road 22 2025-08-20
12 At the Chime of a City Clock 20 2026-08-02
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-26 20:21 One of These Things First Radio 2
2026-08-11 22:09 Cello Song 6 Music
2026-08-02 03:30 At the Chime of a City Clock 6 Music
2026-08-02 02:01 Saturday Sun 6 Music
2026-08-01 07:51 The Thoughts of Mary Jane 6 Music
2026-07-27 23:32 Pink Moon 6 Music
2026-05-10 08:33 River Man 6 Music
2026-05-10 06:19 Northern Sky 6 Music
2026-05-07 08:01 Northern Sky 6 Music
2026-05-04 01:08 River Man 6 Music
2026-05-03 14:16 River Man 6 Music
2026-04-26 15:42 Northern Sky Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

104 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
'Cello Song, Take 4 - January 1969 (feat. Danny Thompson & Clare Lowther) — 1 ▶
At the Chime of a City Clock — 20 ▶
At The Chime Of The City Clock — 3 ▶
Been Smoking Too Long — 2 ▶
Black Eyed Dog — 13 ▶
Black-Eyed Dog — 9 ▶
Blossom — 5 ▶
Blossom (Cambridge Tape) — 1 ▶
Blues Run The Game — 2 ▶
Bryter Layter — 8 ▶
Bryter Layter (John Peel session version) — 1 ▶
Bryter Layter (John Peel Session) — 2 ▶
Bryter Layter (Peel Session) — 1 ▶
Cello Song — 86 ▶
Cello Song (BBC session 5 Aug 1969) — 1 ▶
Cello Song (John Peel Session 6th August 1969) — 1 ▶
Cello Song (John Peel Session version) — 3 ▶
Cello Song (John Peel Session) — 3 ▶
Cello Song (Take 4 from 1969) — 1 ▶
Cello Song - BBC Session 06/08/1969 — 1 ▶
Clothes Of Sand — 1 ▶
Day Is Done — 20 ▶
Day Is Done (Box Set Remaster 2025) — 1 ▶
Day Is Done, Album Version — 1 ▶
Fly — 8 ▶
Fly (BBC Proms, 24 July 2024) — 1 ▶
Free Ride — 3 ▶
From the Morning — 22 ▶
Fruit Tree — 24 ▶
Fruit Tree (March 1968) — 1 ▶
Hanging On A Star — 3 ▶
Harvest Breed — 5 ▶
Hazey Jane I — 4 ▶
Hazey Jane II — 11 ▶
Hazy Jane — 2 ▶
Hazy Jane 1 — 1 ▶
Hazy Jane II — 2 ▶
Here Comes the Blues — 1 ▶
Horn — 6 ▶
I Was Made to Love Magic — 1 ▶
Introduction — 6 ▶
Joey — 1 ▶
Know — 7 ▶
Man in a Shed — 19 ▶
Man In A Shed — 2 ▶
Man In A Shed (March 1968) — 1 ▶
Mayfair — 1 ▶
Mayfair (1st Sound Techniques Studio session 1968) — 1 ▶
Mayfair (Cambridge Version) — 2 ▶
Mayfair (March 1968) — 1 ▶
Mayfair, First Sound Techniques Session - March 1968 — 1 ▶
Mickey's Tune, Cambridge - Lent Term 1968 — 1 ▶
Northern Sky — 269 ▶
One of These Things First — 27 ▶
One Of These Things First — 2 ▶
One Off These Things First — 1 ▶
Parasite — 2 ▶
Parasite (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Pink Moon — 183 ▶
Pink Moon (BBC Proms 2024 - TX 24/07/24) — 1 ▶
Place to Be — 33 ▶
Place To Be — 1 ▶
Place To Be (BBC Proms 2024 - TX 24/07/24) — 1 ▶
Poor Boy — 7 ▶
Rider On The Wheel — 2 ▶
River Man — 207 ▶
River Man (2025 Box Set Remaster) — 1 ▶
River Man (April 1969) — 1 ▶
River Man (John Peel Session version) — 4 ▶
River Man (Take 1 from 1969) — 1 ▶
River Man (Take 1, 4th January 1969) — 1 ▶
River Man (Take 1January 1969) — 1 ▶
Riverman (Panda Bear Guest Mix) — 1 ▶
Road — 22 ▶
Saturday Sun — 43 ▶
Saturday Sun (BBC Proms, 24 July 2024) BC Camplight — 1 ▶
Sketch 1 — 5 ▶
Strange Face (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968) — 2 ▶
Strange Face (November 1968) — 1 ▶
Strange Face - 1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968 — 2 ▶
Sunday — 10 ▶
The Thoughts of Mary Jane — 11 ▶
The Thoughts Of Mary Jane (Cambridge May 1968) — 1 ▶
They're Leaving Me Behind — 2 ▶
Things Behind the Sun — 19 ▶
Things Behind The Sun — 3 ▶
Three Hours — 6 ▶
Three Hours (BBC Session, 5 Aug 1969) — 4 ▶
Three Hours (November 1968) — 1 ▶
Three Hours - BBC Session 06/08/1969 — 3 ▶
Time Has Told Me — 73 ▶
Time Has Told Me (November 1968) — 1 ▶
Time Has Told Me (Take 4, 11th November 1968) — 5 ▶
Time Has Told Me (Take 4, November 1968) (feat. Danny Thompson) — 1 ▶
Time Has Told Me/Northern Sky/Fruit Tree — 1 ▶
Time of No Reply — 1 ▶
Time Of No Reply — 1 ▶
Time Of No Reply (BBC Session, 6 Aug 1969) — 4 ▶
Time Of No Reply - BBC Session 06/08/1969 — 1 ▶
Voices — 1 ▶
Way to Blue — 11 ▶
Way To Blue — 12 ▶
Way To Blue (Cambridge Winter 1968) — 1 ▶
Which Will — 2 ▶