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Sam Fender

Sam Fender is a person from the UK, active since 1994.

Person GB since 1994 alternative rock indie rock heartland rock
TOTAL PLAYS
6,276
SONGS PLAYED
163
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2017-03-28 18:56 · Radio 1 — "Play God"
LAST PLAYED
1 day ago · Radio 2 — "Rein Me In (feat. Olivia Dean)"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2017 — 2026
2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0
'17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 1 5,020 80%
Radio 2 1,087 17%
6 Music 165 3%
1Xtra 4 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 07:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Seventeen Going Under 859 2026-05-19
2 Will We Talk? 666 2026-05-18
3 People Watching 553 2026-05-19
4 Hypersonic Missiles 533 2026-04-28
5 That Sound 418 2026-03-25
6 Getting Started 407 2026-05-20
7 Get You Down 394 2026-05-19
8 Little Bit Closer 270 2026-01-08
9 Play God 265 2025-10-17
10 Spit Of You 246 2026-04-11
11 Arm's Length 240 2026-01-02
12 The Treadmill 162 2026-04-12
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-20 06:33 Rein Me In (feat. Olivia Dean) Radio 2
2026-05-20 04:34 Getting Started Radio 1
2026-05-19 15:26 Seventeen Going Under Radio 2
2026-05-19 13:42 People Watching Radio 1
2026-05-19 04:27 Get You Down Radio 1
2026-05-18 18:15 People Watching (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) Radio 1
2026-05-18 18:13 Will We Talk? (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025, 24 May 2025) Radio 1
2026-05-18 13:39 Seventeen Going Under Radio 1
2026-05-18 13:12 Rein Me In (feat. Olivia Dean) Radio 2
2026-05-18 07:23 Will We Talk? Radio 1
2026-05-17 07:18 Rein Me In (feat. Olivia Dean) Radio 2
2026-05-17 05:05 People Watching Radio 1
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

163 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
17 Going Under (Reading Festival, 27 August 2023) — 1 ▶
All Is On My Side — 9 ▶
Alright — 1 ▶
Alright (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Angel in Lothian — 1 ▶
Arm's Length — 240 ▶
Arm's Length (Radio 1's Big Weekend, May 24th 2025) — 2 ▶
Aye — 2 ▶
Back To Black (Radio 1 Live Lounge 13th Feb 2020) — 2 ▶
Back To Black (Radio 1 Live Lounge) — 20 ▶
Back To Black (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 13 Feb 2020) — 2 ▶
Back To Black (Radio 1 Live Lounge,13th February 2020) — 6 ▶
Back To Black (Radio 1's Live Lounge, 13 Feb 2020) — 3 ▶
Back To Black - Radio 1 Session — 1 ▶
Better Of Me — 21 ▶
Borders (Radio 1's Big Weekend, May 24th 2025) — 2 ▶
Born In The USA (Radio 1 Session, 05 Sep 2018) — 1 ▶
Born In The USA (Radio 1 Session, 5 Sep 2018) — 4 ▶
break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored (Live Lounge 26 Feb 2019) — 3 ▶
break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 26 Feb 2019) — 24 ▶
Call Me Lover — 1 ▶
Chin Up — 4 ▶
Crumbling Empire — 8 ▶
Dancing In The Dark (Radio 2 Session, 17 JAN 2019) — 2 ▶
Dancing In The Dark (Radio 2 Session, 17 January 2019) — 1 ▶
Dancing With A Stranger (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 18th September 2019) — 15 ▶
Dead Boys — 54 ▶
Dead Boys (BBC Radio 5Live Session) — 1 ▶
Dead Boys (Radio 1 Session, 05 Sep 2018) — 1 ▶
Dead Boys (Radio 1 Session, 5 Sep 2018) — 1 ▶
Dead Boys (Radio 2 Session, 17 JAN 2019) — 1 ▶
Dead Boys (SXSW, 2019) — 1 ▶
Dead Boys - Radio 2 Session - RX 17/01/2019 — 2 ▶
Dead Boys - Radio 2 sesson - live 17/01/19 — 1 ▶
Friday Fighting — 16 ▶
Get You Down — 394 ▶
Get You Down (Glastonbury 2022) — 4 ▶
Get You Down (Live at TRNSMT 2021) — 1 ▶
Get You Down (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 4 ▶
Get You Down (Radio 1's Out Out Live 2021) — 2 ▶
Get You Down (Radio 1's Out Out Live) — 1 ▶
Get You Down (Radio 2 Session, 4 Oct 2021) — 1 ▶
Get You Down (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Gettin' Started — 1 ▶
Getting Started — 407 ▶
Getting Started (Chase & Status Remix) — 13 ▶
Getting Started (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Getting Started (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 2 ▶
Getting Started (Radio 1's Big Weekend, May 24th 2025) — 1 ▶
Getting Started (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Getting Started - eighteen, failed dream — 4 ▶
Good Company — 3 ▶
Greasy Spoon — 9 ▶
Greasy Spoon (Introducing Session, 24 Nov 2017) — 1 ▶
Hold Out — 4 ▶
Howden (Radio 1's Big Weekend, May 24th 2025) — 1 ▶
Howdon (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 1 ▶
Howdon Aldi Death Queue — 7 ▶
Howdon Aldi Death Queue (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Huw's Tip - Play God — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles — 533 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Live From Reading Festival 2021) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Live from SXSW) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix) — 9 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Shields Mix) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Shields Remix) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2019) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Radio 1's Big Weekend, May 24th 2025) — 2 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles / Saturday (Reading + Leeds 2021) — 1 ▶
Hypersonic Missiles/ Saturday (Reading + Leeds 2021) — 1 ▶
I'm Always on Stage — 7 ▶
Iris — 1 ▶
Last To Make It Home — 2 ▶
Leave Fast — 53 ▶
Leave Fast (Radio 1 Session, 5 Sep 2018) — 3 ▶
Little Bit Closer — 270 ▶
Little Bit Closer (Radio 1's Big Weekend, May 24th 2025) — 2 ▶
Little Bull Of Blithe — 1 ▶
Long Way Off — 4 ▶
Mantra (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 1 ▶
Mantra (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Me and the Dog — 1 ▶
Millenial — 1 ▶
Millennial — 8 ▶
Millennial (Introducing Session, 24 Nov 2017) — 1 ▶
Nostalgia's Lie — 4 ▶
People Watching — 553 ▶
People Watching (Mercury Prize 2025) — 3 ▶
People Watching (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) — 8 ▶
People Watching (Radio 1's Big Weekend, May 24th 2025) — 2 ▶
Play God — 265 ▶
Play God (Great Exhibition of the North 2018) — 1 ▶
Play God (Introducing Session, 24 Nov 2017) — 2 ▶
Play God (Live from SXSW) — 1 ▶
Play God (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 26 Feb 2019) — 9 ▶
Play God (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2019) — 1 ▶
Play God (Radio 2 SXSW Session, 14 Mar 2018) — 2 ▶
Play God (SXSW 2018) — 1 ▶
Poundshop Kardashians — 1 ▶
Rein Me In — 4 ▶
Rein Me In (feat. Olivia Dean) — 161 ▶
Remember My Name — 24 ▶
Saturday — 133 ▶
Saturday (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Saturday (Radio 1s Live Lounge 2nd Jan 2023) — 1 ▶
Saturday (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Saturday - Radio 1 Session — 8 ▶
Saturday - Reading and Leeds 2021 — 2 ▶
Seventeen Going Under — 859 ▶
Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic) — 2 ▶
Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic) (feat. Holly Humberstone) — 18 ▶
Seventeen Going Under (Glastonbury 2022) — 6 ▶
Seventeen Going Under (Mercury Prize) — 1 ▶
Seventeen Going Under (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 6 ▶
Seventeen Going Under (Reading + Leeds 2023) — 3 ▶
Seventeen Going Under (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Something Heavy — 2 ▶
Spice (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Spice (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 1 ▶
Spit Of You — 246 ▶
Spit Of You (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Spit of You (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 3 ▶
Spit Of You (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Start Again — 25 ▶
Start Again (Introducing Session, 24 Nov 2017) — 1 ▶
Start Again (Live from First Fifty 2017) — 1 ▶
Talk To You (feat. Elton John) — 92 ▶
Teenage Dream/Dreams (Radio 2 Session, 4 Oct 2021) — 3 ▶
That Sound — 418 ▶
That Sound (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
The Borders — 12 ▶
The Borders (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
The Dying Light — 3 ▶
The Dying Light (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
The Dying Light (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 2 ▶
The Dying Light (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
The Dying Light (Winter Edit) — 3 ▶
The Kitchen (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
The Treadmill — 162 ▶
TV Dinner — 2 ▶
Two People — 3 ▶
Tyrants — 9 ▶
Use — 1 ▶
Use (Live) — 1 ▶
We Will Talk? — 1 ▶
While We Talk (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Wild Grey Ocean — 155 ▶
Wild Long Lie — 9 ▶
Will We Talk (MK Remix) — 10 ▶
Will We Talk (Reading Festival 2023) — 1 ▶
Will We Talk? — 666 ▶
Will We Talk? (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Will We Talk? (MK Remix) — 12 ▶
Will We Talk? (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 18th September 2019) — 3 ▶
Will We Talk? (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 26 Feb 2019) — 2 ▶
Will We Talk? (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2022) — 2 ▶
Will We Talk? (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025) — 7 ▶
Will We Talk? (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2025, 24 May 2025) — 1 ▶
Will We Talk? (Reading + Leeds 2023) — 2 ▶
Winter Song — 87 ▶
You're Not The Only One — 4 ▶