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Sounds Of Blackness

Sounds Of Blackness is a group from the US, active since 1969.

Group US since 1969 gospel
TOTAL PLAYS
615
SONGS PLAYED
28
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2006-07-14 17:48 · 1Xtra — "Optimistic"
LAST PLAYED
3 days ago · 1Xtra — "Optimistic"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2006 — 2026
90 68 45 23 0
'06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

1Xtra 311 51%
6 Music 160 26%
Radio 2 127 21%
Radio 1 17 3%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 22:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Optimistic 427 2026-05-18
2 The Pressure 75 2026-05-14
3 I Believe 24 2026-03-01
4 I'm Going All The Way 16 2026-03-11
5 Soul Holidays 15 2025-12-25
6 The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles classic mix) 14 2025-12-26
7 Black Butterfly 11 2025-12-14
8 Hold On (Change Is Comin') 5 2024-11-20
9 The Pressure (Classic Mix) 3 2020-08-25
10 The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Full Vocal Mix) 3 2018-11-03
11 Zero To Hero 2 2022-12-31
12 The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Mix) 2 2022-02-04
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-18 15:22 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-05-17 10:32 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-05-15 13:14 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-05-14 06:10 The Pressure 6 Music
2026-05-09 06:42 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-04-29 10:13 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-04-18 08:20 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-03-20 14:14 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-03-19 06:45 Optimistic 1Xtra
2026-03-11 22:49 I'm Going All The Way Radio 2
2026-03-03 14:33 Optimistic Radio 2
2026-03-01 11:03 I Believe 1Xtra
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

28 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Black Butterfly — 11 ▶
Change is Coming — 1 ▶
Dance Chitlins, Dance — 1 ▶
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright — 1 ▶
everything is gonna be alright (foundation edit) — 1 ▶
Hold On (Change Is Comin') — 5 ▶
Hold On, Change Is Coming — 1 ▶
I Believe — 24 ▶
I'm Going All The Way — 16 ▶
Optimistic — 427 ▶
Optimistic (album version) — 1 ▶
Soul Holiday (Girls of the Internet remix) — 1 ▶
Soul Holidays — 15 ▶
Stand — 1 ▶
Testify — 1 ▶
The Pressure — 75 ▶
The Pressure (CJ Mackintosh 7 Remix) — 1 ▶
The Pressure (Classic Mix) — 3 ▶
The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Full Vocal Mix) — 3 ▶
The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles classic mix) — 14 ▶
the pressure (frankie knuckles classic mix) (with intro) — 1 ▶
The pressure (Frankie Knuckles classic) — 1 ▶
The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Mix) — 2 ▶
The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Piano Intro mix) — 1 ▶
The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Remix) — 2 ▶
The Pressure - Radio 1's Ibiza Weekend - RX 01/08/2015 — 2 ▶
The Pressure Pt. 1 — 1 ▶
Zero To Hero — 2 ▶