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Sparks

Sparks is a group from the US, active since 1970.

Group US since 1970 glam rock art pop art rock
TOTAL PLAYS
1,680
SONGS PLAYED
185
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-25 00:30 · 6 Music — "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us"
LAST PLAYED
3 weeks ago · Radio 2 — "The Number One Song in Heaven"
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 1,224 73%
Radio 2 452 27%
Radio 1 4 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 18:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us 212 2025-12-05
2 Amateur Hour 172 2025-05-10
3 Beat the Clock 145 2026-02-06
4 The Number One Song in Heaven 110 2026-04-24
5 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us 87 2026-03-29
6 Good Morning 72 2018-02-14
7 This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us 63 2011-11-09
8 Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) 61 2023-09-17
9 What the Hell Is It This Time? 57 2022-08-04
10 Number One Song In Heaven 52 2016-06-28
11 Beat The Clock 46 2011-11-03
12 The Number One Song In Heaven 43 2011-11-15
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-04-24 03:13 The Number One Song in Heaven Radio 2
2026-03-31 19:03 The Number One Song in Heaven Radio 2
2026-03-29 14:49 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us Radio 2
2026-02-06 04:12 Beat the Clock Radio 2
2025-12-29 22:34 Do Things My Own Way 6 Music
2025-12-27 06:15 Beat the Clock 6 Music
2025-12-26 16:56 Lord Have Mercy (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) 6 Music
2025-12-26 16:46 Drowned In A Sea Of Tears (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) 6 Music
2025-12-26 16:39 Do Things My Own Way (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) 6 Music
2025-12-11 16:54 Drowned in a Sea of Tears 6 Music
2025-12-05 12:56 This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us 6 Music
2025-11-30 16:34 The Number One Song in Heaven Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

185 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
1956 Cannes Film Festival — 1 ▶
A Little Bit Like Fun — 1 ▶
A Little Bit of Light Banter — 3 ▶
Achoo — 2 ▶
All That — 5 ▶
Amateur Hour — 172 ▶
Amateur Hour - Electric Picnic Unkown Date as of now — 1 ▶
Amateur Hour 1995 — 3 ▶
Amazing Mr Repeat — 1 ▶
Angst in My Pants — 2 ▶
At Home, At Work, At Play — 20 ▶
At Home, At Work, At Play (6 Music Festival 2017) — 2 ▶
Barbecutie — 1 ▶
Beat the Clock — 145 ▶
Beat The Clock — 46 ▶
Beat The Clock 1995 — 6 ▶
Beat the Clock (Debo Edit) — 1 ▶
Beat The Clock (Extended version) — 2 ▶
Big Boy — 1 ▶
Check Out Time 11AM — 1 ▶
Christmas Without A Prayer — 2 ▶
Complaints — 1 ▶
Confusion — 1 ▶
Dick Around — 4 ▶
Dick Around (6 Music Festival 2017) — 2 ▶
Do Things My Own Way — 17 ▶
Do Things My Own Way (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) — 3 ▶
Don't Leave Me Alone With Her — 1 ▶
Drowned in a Sea of Tears — 20 ▶
Drowned In A Sea Of Tears (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) — 6 ▶
Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) — 61 ▶
Edith Piaf (Said It Better) — 1 ▶
Equator — 1 ▶
Falling in Love with Myself Again — 5 ▶
Fantasize — 1 ▶
Fletcher Honorama — 1 ▶
Frankly Scarlet (Radio 1 Session, 19 Oct 1994) — 1 ▶
Gee That Was Fun — 2 ▶
Get in the Swing — 10 ▶
Get In The Swing 1995 — 1 ▶
Giddy Giddy — 1 ▶
Girl from Germany — 8 ▶
Good Morning — 72 ▶
Good Morning (6 Music Festival 2017) — 1 ▶
Good Morning - Radio 2 Session 25/10/2008 — 1 ▶
Happy Hunting Ground — 1 ▶
Happy Hunting Ground - Electric Picnic Unkown Date As Of Now — 2 ▶
Hasta Manana Monsieur — 5 ▶
Hasta Mañana, Monsieur — 1 ▶
Here in Heaven — 1 ▶
Here Kitty — 1 ▶
High C — 3 ▶
Hippopotamu 6 Music Session 08 Sept 2017 — 1 ▶
Hippopotamus — 21 ▶
Hippopotamus (6 Music Festival 2017) — 1 ▶
Hippopotamus (6 Music session for Marc Riley 8th Sept 2017) — 2 ▶
Hippopotamus (Live at the 6Music Festival, Glasgow 2017) — 1 ▶
Hippopotamus (Radio Edit) — 2 ▶
How Are You Getting Home? — 1 ▶
I Can't Believe That You Would Fall ... - Radio 2 Session 25/10/2008 — 1 ▶
I Married a Martian — 1 ▶
I Married Myself — 1 ▶
I Predict — 1 ▶
I Want to Hold Your Hand — 1 ▶
I Wish You Were Fun — 3 ▶
I'm Toast — 6 ▶
In The Future - Electric Picnic Unkown Date as of now — 1 ▶
JanSport Backpack (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) — 1 ▶
La Dolce Vita — 3 ▶
Lawnmower — 2 ▶
Left Out in the Cold — 13 ▶
Let's Go Surfin 1995 — 4 ▶
Lighten Up, Morrissey — 3 ▶
Lighten Up, Morrissey - Radio 2 Session 25/10/2008 — 2 ▶
Little Drummer Boy — 1 ▶
Looks, Looks, Looks — 20 ▶
Lord Have Mercy (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) — 3 ▶
Lost And Found — 1 ▶
Missionary Position 6 Music Session 08 Sept 2017 — 1 ▶
Moustache — 1 ▶
Music That You Can Dance To — 3 ▶
My Devotion — 1 ▶
My Other Voice — 1 ▶
Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth — 22 ▶
Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth — 2 ▶
Never Turn Your Back On Mother Nature - Electric Picnic Unkown Date As Of Now — 1 ▶
Nothing Is as Good as They Say It Is — 41 ▶
Nothing Is as Good as They Say It Is (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is (Glatonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Nothing Travels Faster Than the Speed of Light — 1 ▶
Now That I Own the BBC — 2 ▶
Now That I Own The BBC (Radio 1 Session, 19 Oct 1994) — 1 ▶
number 1 song in heaven — 5 ▶
Number 1 Song In Heaven 1995 — 1 ▶
Number One Song In Heaven — 52 ▶
Number One Song In Heaven (6 Music Festival, 24 Mar 2017) — 1 ▶
One for the Ages — 26 ▶
Perfume — 10 ▶
Photoshop — 2 ▶
Porcupine — 7 ▶
Pretending to Be Drunk — 1 ▶
Propaganda & At Home, At Work, At Play — 1 ▶
Propaganda/At Home, At Work, At Play - Radio 2 Session 25/10/2008 — 1 ▶
Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat — 1 ▶
Reinforcements — 2 ▶
Roger — 3 ▶
Running Up A Tab At The Hotel for the Fab (6 Music Session, 15 May 2025) — 1 ▶
Sainthood Is Not Your Future — 7 ▶
Self Effacing — 3 ▶
Sherlock Holmes — 5 ▶
Shes Beautiful (So What) — 1 ▶
Shopping Mall Of Love — 1 ▶
So May We Start — 1 ▶
So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln Aside from That How Was the Play? — 1 ▶
Something for the Girl with Everything — 6 ▶
Something For The Girl With Everything — 2 ▶
Something For The Girl With Everything 1995 — 2 ▶
Something For The Girl With Everything - Electric Picnic Unkown Date As Of Now — 1 ▶
Suburban Homeboy - live at Electric Picnic 2013 — 1 ▶
Talent Is an Asset — 3 ▶
Thank God It's Not Christmas — 4 ▶
Thanks But No Thanks — 2 ▶
The Calm Before the Storm — 1 ▶
The Decline and Fall of Me — 2 ▶
The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte — 27 ▶
The Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight — 1 ▶
The No 1 Song In Heaven (Part Two) — 1 ▶
The No. 1 Song in Heaven (feat. Jimmy Somerville) — 1 ▶
The No.1 Song In Heaven (Part 2) — 1 ▶
The Number One Song in Heaven — 110 ▶
The Number One Song In Heaven — 43 ▶
The Number One Song In Heaven (Glastonbury 2023) — 2 ▶
The Rhythm Thief — 2 ▶
The Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us — 87 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us — 63 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us ((Plagiarism)) — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us (Glastonbury 2023) — 5 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us — 212 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us (6 Music Festival 24-03-17) — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us (Live 1995) — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us (Radio 1 Session, 19 Oct 1994) — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - 1995 — 4 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - 6 Music Festival - RX 24-03-2017 — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - BBC Session 15/12/1995 — 1 ▶
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Session 15/12/1995 — 2 ▶
This Town Aint Big Enough - Electric Picnic Unkown Date As Of Now — 2 ▶
this town aint big enough for both of us — 1 ▶
Tips for Teens — 1 ▶
Tryouts For The Human Race — 1 ▶
Tryouts For The Human Race (Gavin Herlihy bootleg edit) (feat. Giorgio Moroder) — 1 ▶
Two Hands, One Mouth — 1 ▶
Ugly Guys with Beautiful Girls — 1 ▶
Unaware — 3 ▶
Veronica Lake — 4 ▶
Waterproof — 1 ▶
We Love Each Other So Much — 1 ▶
What Are All These Bands So Angry About — 1 ▶
What Are All These Bands So Angry About? — 1 ▶
What The Hell Is It This Time — 2 ▶
What The Hell Is It This Time (6 Music Festival 2017) — 2 ▶
What The Hell Is It This Time) 6 Music Session 08 Sept 2017 — 2 ▶
What the Hell Is It This Time? — 57 ▶
When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing "My Way" 1995 — 2 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing "My Way"? — 6 ▶
When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way' — 2 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing My Own Way (Radio 1 Session, 19 Oct 1994) — 2 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing My Own Way - BBC Session 15/12/1995 — 1 ▶
When Do I Get to Sing My Way — 1 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing My Way (6 Music Festival 2017) — 1 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing My Way (Radio Edit) — 1 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing My Way (Sparks Radio Edit) — 1 ▶
When Do I Get To Sing/My Own Way - Session 15/12/1995 — 1 ▶
When I Take The Field On Friday — 1 ▶
When I'm with You — 5 ▶
When I'm With You — 1 ▶
When I'm With You 1995 — 1 ▶
When You're a French Director — 2 ▶
Where's My Girl — 1 ▶
Wonder Girl — 2 ▶
You Earned The Right To Be A Dick — 4 ▶
You Were Meant for Me — 5 ▶
Your Call's Very Important To Us. Please Hold — 1 ▶