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Nirvana

Nirvana is a group from the US, active from 1987.

Group US 1987–1994 grunge alternative rock rock
TOTAL PLAYS
3,045
SONGS PLAYED
162
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-15 19:04 · 6 Music — "Love Buzz"
LAST PLAYED
3 days ago · 6 Music — "Sliver"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 2,117 70%
Radio 2 550 18%
Radio 1 364 12%
1Xtra 14 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 03:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Smells Like Teen Spirit 619 2026-05-05
2 Come as You Are 226 2026-03-07
3 Lithium 207 2026-05-08
4 In Bloom 193 2026-02-23
5 Love Buzz 152 2025-11-25
6 Dumb 139 2026-05-17
7 Heart-Shaped Box 113 2026-02-23
8 All Apologies 111 2026-05-04
9 Breed 109 2025-12-30
10 The Man Who Sold the World 97 2025-10-19
11 Come As You Are 87 2011-10-21
12 About a Girl 71 2026-05-14
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-18 05:19 Sliver 6 Music
2026-05-17 02:40 Dumb 6 Music
2026-05-14 02:23 About a Girl Radio 2
2026-05-08 02:21 Lithium 6 Music
2026-05-05 18:07 Smells Like Teen Spirit Radio 2
2026-05-04 13:32 Very Ape 6 Music
2026-05-04 02:57 All Apologies Radio 2
2026-04-20 02:18 Smells Like Teen Spirit Radio 2
2026-04-06 02:33 Lithium Radio 2
2026-03-18 03:52 Smells Like Teen Spirit Radio 2
2026-03-13 16:31 Smells Like Teen Spirit Radio 2
2026-03-12 03:16 All Apologies (unplugged) Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

162 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
About a Girl — 71 ▶
About A Girl — 38 ▶
About A Girl (Home Demo) — 1 ▶
About a Girl (live) — 1 ▶
About a Girl (MTV Unplugged Version) — 1 ▶
About A Girl (Unplugged) — 7 ▶
About A Girl [Unplugged In New York] — 1 ▶
About A Girl [Unplugged] — 1 ▶
Ain't It A Shame — 1 ▶
All Apologies — 111 ▶
All Apologies (Live) — 1 ▶
All Apologies (original mix by Steve Albini) — 1 ▶
All Apologies (Steve Albini Mix) — 2 ▶
All Apologies (unplugged) — 3 ▶
Aneurysm — 16 ▶
Aneurysm (Live at Reading) — 1 ▶
Aneurysm (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
Anuerysm — 1 ▶
Been a Son — 1 ▶
Been A Son - BBC Session 09/11/1991 — 3 ▶
Big Cheese — 9 ▶
Big Long Now — 1 ▶
Blandest — 1 ▶
Blew — 18 ▶
Breed — 109 ▶
Breed (1000 Albums... Nevermind) — 1 ▶
Breed (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
Christopher Lucifer — 1 ▶
Come as You Are — 226 ▶
Come As You Are — 87 ▶
Come As You Are (Live - Reading 1992 - for Bank Holiday Monday '07) — 1 ▶
Come As You Are (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
Come As You Are (live) — 2 ▶
Come As You Are (Reading Festival 1992) — 17 ▶
come as you are - live — 2 ▶
Come As You Are - Reading 1992 — 4 ▶
Come as You Are - Rehearsal — 1 ▶
Come as You Are [Live] — 1 ▶
Come As You Are SILENT DIGA — 1 ▶
D-7 (BBC Session 21/10/1990) — 1 ▶
D-7 (Peel Session 10/90) — 1 ▶
D7 (John Peel session 12st Oct 1990) — 1 ▶
Dive — 5 ▶
Do You Love Me — 1 ▶
Downer — 4 ▶
Drain You — 42 ▶
Drain You (BBC Session 03/09/1991) — 1 ▶
Drain You (Live From Live & Loud) — 1 ▶
Drain You (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
Drain You <Peel Session> — 1 ▶
Dumb — 139 ▶
Dumb (BBC Session) — 2 ▶
Dumb (Live at Maida Vale) — 1 ▶
Dumb (Live at Reading) — 2 ▶
Endless Nameless — 4 ▶
Endless, Nameless — 2 ▶
Even In His Youth — 1 ▶
Floyd the Barber — 5 ▶
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle — 3 ▶
Girl In The Park — 1 ▶
Heart Shaped Box — 16 ▶
Heart-Shaped Box — 113 ▶
Heartbreaker (Live) — 1 ▶
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die — 1 ▶
In Bloom — 193 ▶
In Bloom (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
In Bloom Loop — 1 ▶
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam — 3 ▶
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam( MTV Unplugged) — 1 ▶
Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam — 1 ▶
Lake of Fire — 3 ▶
Lake Of Fire — 1 ▶
Lake of Fire (Unplugged) — 1 ▶
Lithium — 207 ▶
Lithium (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
Lithium (Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
Lounge Act — 5 ▶
Love Buzz — 152 ▶
Marigold — 2 ▶
Milk It — 3 ▶
Molly's Lips — 58 ▶
Molly's Lips (BBC John Peel Session 1990) — 2 ▶
Molly's Lips (John Peel 1990 Maida Vale Session) — 1 ▶
Molly's Lips (John Peel session 12st Oct 1990) — 1 ▶
Molly's Lips (Session Track) — 1 ▶
Mr Moustache — 1 ▶
Negative Creep — 14 ▶
Oh The Guilt — 1 ▶
Oh, Me — 1 ▶
Oh, the Guilt — 15 ▶
On a Plain — 67 ▶
On A Plain — 40 ▶
On A Plain (Boom Box Rehearsal Version) — 1 ▶
Penny Royal Tea — 1 ▶
Pennyroyal Tea — 12 ▶
Pentecost Hotel — 6 ▶
Plateau — 2 ▶
Polly — 60 ▶
Polly (Album version) — 1 ▶
Polly (BBC Radio 1 Session) — 1 ▶
Polly (Unplugged in NYC) — 1 ▶
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter — 4 ▶
Rainbow Chaser — 38 ▶
Requiem For John Coltrane — 1 ▶
Scentless Apprentice — 8 ▶
School — 35 ▶
School (1992/Live at Reading) — 1 ▶
School (Live at Reading Festival '92) — 2 ▶
School (live at reading) — 2 ▶
School (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
School (Live From The Reading Festival) — 1 ▶
School (live) — 1 ▶
Seasons In The Sun — 1 ▶
Serve the Servants — 13 ▶
Serve The Servants — 1 ▶
Serve The Servants (live) — 1 ▶
Sliver — 35 ▶
Sliver (Live From Reading Festival 1992) — 1 ▶
Smells Like Teen Milli (Spenda C Trap Edit) (feat. Lil Wayne) — 1 ▶
Smells Like Teen Spirit — 619 ▶
Smells Like Teen Spirit (DJ Sega Rockheadz vs. Clubheadz mixtape remix) — 1 ▶
Smells Like Teen Spirit (House Music Version) — 1 ▶
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Patrick Alavi Mix) — 2 ▶
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Play N Skillz Bootleg) — 1 ▶
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Vandal On Da Track Remix) — 3 ▶
Something in the Way — 33 ▶
Something In The Way — 1 ▶
Something In The Way Bbc Session 09/11/1991 — 1 ▶
Something In The Way (BBC Session 09/11/1991) — 1 ▶
Something In The Way (BBC Session, 9 Nov 1991) — 1 ▶
Something In The Way (Live At The BBC) — 1 ▶
Something in the Way (unplugged) — 1 ▶
Something In The Way - BBC Session 09/11/1991 — 1 ▶
Son Of A Gun (BBC Session) — 1 ▶
Spank Thru — 1 ▶
Stay Away — 9 ▶
Swap Meet (Diplo remix) — 1 ▶
territorial — 1 ▶
Territorial P******s — 7 ▶
Territorial P**sings — 1 ▶
Territorial P*ssings — 1 ▶
Territorial Pissings — 12 ▶
The Man Who Sold the World — 97 ▶
The Man Who Sold The World — 34 ▶
The Man Who Sold The World (Acoustic) — 1 ▶
The Man Who Sold The World (MTV Unplugged) — 1 ▶
The Man Who Sold The World (Unplugged - rehearsal) — 1 ▶
The Man Who Sold the World (Unplugged In New York) — 1 ▶
The Man Who Sold The World (Unplugged) — 5 ▶
The Touchables — 2 ▶
The Touchables Theme (All Of Us) — 1 ▶
Tiny Goddess — 4 ▶
Tiny Godess — 1 ▶
Tourette’s — 1 ▶
Very Ape — 38 ▶
We Can Help You — 3 ▶
Where Did You Sleep Last Night — 21 ▶
Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Live in New York) — 1 ▶
Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Unplugged in New York) — 1 ▶
Where Did You Sleep Last Night (unplugged) — 1 ▶
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? — 3 ▶
You Know You're Right — 20 ▶