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The Kinks

The Kinks is a group from the UK, active from 1964.

Group GB 1964–1996 rock mod rock & roll
TOTAL PLAYS
5,509
SONGS PLAYED
357
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-14 12:47 · 6 Music — "Set Me Free"
LAST PLAYED
1 day ago · Radio 2 — "Sunny Afternoon"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
500 375 250 125 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 2,840 52%
Radio 2 2,603 47%
Radio 1 64 1%
1Xtra 2 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 02:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 You Really Got Me 670 2026-05-11
2 Waterloo Sunset 619 2026-05-08
3 Lola 353 2026-05-13
4 Sunny Afternoon 329 2026-05-19
5 Victoria 239 2025-09-30
6 All Day and All of the Night 237 2026-05-13
7 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 185 2026-03-04
8 The Village Green Preservation Society 185 2025-11-06
9 Tired of Waiting for You 183 2026-04-22
10 Days 177 2025-09-25
11 Till the End of the Day 173 2025-10-27
12 Come Dancing 170 2025-10-18
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-19 11:46 Sunny Afternoon Radio 2
2026-05-13 12:38 Lola Radio 2
2026-05-13 06:28 All Day and All of the Night Radio 2
2026-05-11 16:55 You Really Got Me Radio 2
2026-05-08 10:50 Waterloo Sunset Radio 2
2026-05-05 06:45 All Day and All of the Night 6 Music
2026-05-03 04:56 Waterloo Sunset Radio 2
2026-04-30 03:04 You Really Got Me Radio 2
2026-04-24 14:14 Sunny Afternoon Radio 2
2026-04-22 15:57 Tired of Waiting for You Radio 2
2026-04-16 00:41 You Really Got Me Radio 2
2026-04-11 06:27 Sunny Afternoon Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

357 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(It's Only) Juke Box Music 1977 — 1 ▶
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman — 2 ▶
20th Century Man — 3 ▶
A House In The Country — 2 ▶
A Long Way from Home (2020 Stereo Remaster) — 2 ▶
A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy — 3 ▶
A Well Respected Man — 21 ▶
A Well Respected Man (Live at The Playhouse Theatre, 1965) — 1 ▶
A Well Respected Man (Saturday Club Session, 18 Dec 1965) — 6 ▶
Acute Schizophrenia Paranioa Blues - In Concert 1973 — 3 ▶
Acute Schizophrenia Paranioa Blues - In Concert 1973 — 1 ▶
Acute Schizophrenia Paranioa Blues - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 4 ▶
Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, 1973) — 7 ▶
Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Radio 1 Session, 5 May 1972) — 1 ▶
Afternoon Tea — 5 ▶
Alcohol — 2 ▶
Alcohol (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
All Day & All of the Night — 158 ▶
All Day and All of the Night — 237 ▶
All Day And All Of The Night — 69 ▶
All Day And All Of The Night (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
All Day And All Of The Night (Top Gear Session, 8 Jan 1964) — 3 ▶
All Day And All Of The Night - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 9 ▶
All Day And All Of The Night 1977 — 1 ▶
All of My Friends Were There — 1 ▶
All The Day And All Of The Night - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 1 ▶
All The Day And All The Night 1981 — 2 ▶
Animal Farm — 8 ▶
Apeman — 64 ▶
Arthur — 1 ▶
Australia — 3 ▶
Australia (2019 Mix) — 1 ▶
Autumn Almanac — 120 ▶
Autumn Almanac (BBC Session 29th October 1967) — 1 ▶
Beautiful Delilah — 1 ▶
Better Things — 5 ▶
Big Black Smoke — 8 ▶
Big Sky — 4 ▶
Brother — 1 ▶
Cadillac (Saturday Club Session, 7 Sept 1964) — 4 ▶
Celluloid Heroes - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 2 ▶
Celluloid Heroes 1977 — 1 ▶
Celluloid Heroes — 16 ▶
Celluloid Heroes (BBC In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, 1974) — 2 ▶
Celluloid Heroes (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
Celluloid Heroes - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 4 ▶
Celluoid Heroes - Golders Green Hippodrome 1974 — 1 ▶
Come Dancing — 170 ▶
Come Dancing (sm) — 1 ▶
Complicated Life — 1 ▶
Creeping Jean (Mono Mix) — 1 ▶
Cricket — 5 ▶
Dandy — 2 ▶
David Watts — 18 ▶
David Watts (2023 Remaster) — 1 ▶
David Watts (Top Gear Session, 25 Oct 1967) — 7 ▶
Days — 177 ▶
Days (Radio 1 Session, 1 Jul 1968) — 1 ▶
Days (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2017) — 1 ▶
Days (Top Gear session 1.7.1968) — 1 ▶
Days (Top Gear Session, 1 Jul 1968) — 4 ▶
Dead End Street — 82 ▶
Dead End Street (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2017) — 1 ▶
Dead End Street 1981 — 1 ▶
Dead-End Street — 5 ▶
Death of a Clown — 9 ▶
Death Of A Clown (Saturday Club Session, 4 Aug 1967) — 4 ▶
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion — 185 ▶
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion (BBC In Concert, 1973) — 1 ▶
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2017) — 1 ▶
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion - Golders Green Hippodrome 1974 — 2 ▶
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion - In Concert 1973 — 2 ▶
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 2 ▶
Dedicated Folower Of Fashion - In Concert 1973 — 4 ▶
Demolition — 2 ▶
Demolition (Radio 1 Session, 6 Jun 1974) — 5 ▶
Demon Alcohol - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 4 ▶
Denmark Street — 4 ▶
Destroyer — 8 ▶
Did You See His Name? — 1 ▶
Do It Again — 1 ▶
Do You Remember Walter — 1 ▶
Do You Remember Walter? — 8 ▶
Don't Forget to Dance — 3 ▶
Don't Forget To Dance — 2 ▶
Drivin' — 2 ▶
End of the Season — 4 ▶
End Of The Season — 1 ▶
Ev'rybody's Gona be Happy — 1 ▶
Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy — 3 ▶
Ev'rybody's Gonna be Happy (Saturday Club, 20 Apr 1965) — 3 ▶
Everybody's A Star (Starmaker) (Live 1975) — 1 ▶
Everybody's Gonna Be Happy — 2 ▶
Everybody’S Gonna Be Happy — 1 ▶
EverybodyÂ’S Gonna Be Happy — 1 ▶
Father Christmas — 54 ▶
Full Moon — 1 ▶
Get Back In Line (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas 1977) — 2 ▶
Get Back In Line 1977 — 1 ▶
Get Back In The Line - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 9 ▶
Give The People What They Want 1981 — 1 ▶
God's Children — 1 ▶
Good Gollie Miss Molly - In Concert 1973 — 1 ▶
Good Gollie Miss Molly - In Concert 1973 — 1 ▶
Good Gollie Miss Molly - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 3 ▶
Good Golly Miss Molly (Live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, 1973) — 4 ▶
Good Luck Charm (Saturday Club Session, 4 Aug 1967) — 5 ▶
Got My Feet on the Ground — 2 ▶
Harry Rag — 4 ▶
Harry Rag (BBC Session 29th October 1967) — 1 ▶
Harry Rag (Top Gear Session, 25 Oct 1967) — 5 ▶
Have A Cuppa Tea — 22 ▶
Have A Cuppa Tea (Alternative Version) — 1 ▶
He's Evil - Golders Green Hippodrome 1974 — 2 ▶
Here Comes Flash (BBC In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, 1974) — 2 ▶
Here Comes Flash - Golders Green Hippodrome 1974 — 1 ▶
Here Comes Yet Another Day - Golders Green Hippodrome 1974 — 2 ▶
Hide And Seek - (BBC Light Programme Session, 6 Aug 1965) — 2 ▶
Holiday — 1 ▶
Holiday (Live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, 1973) — 9 ▶
Holiday (Radio 1 Session, 5 May 1972) — 1 ▶
Holiday - In Concert 1973 — 2 ▶
Holiday - In Concert 1973 — 1 ▶
Holiday - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 3 ▶
Holiday Romance — 1 ▶
Holloway Jail — 2 ▶
Hot Potatoes — 2 ▶
How Are You? — 1 ▶
I Am Free — 1 ▶
I Go To Sleep — 12 ▶
I Go to Sleep (Demo Version) — 5 ▶
I Go to Sleep (demo) — 1 ▶
I Gotta Move — 48 ▶
I'm A Lover Not A Fighter (Top Gear Session, 8 Jan 1964) — 3 ▶
I'm Not Like Everybody Else — 9 ▶
I'm On an Island — 2 ▶
It's All Right — 1 ▶
It's Only Juke Box Music - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 5 ▶
It's Only Jukebox Music - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 8 ▶
Jack the Idiot Dunce — 2 ▶
Johnny Thunder — 4 ▶
Juke Box Music (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
Juke Box Music 1977 — 1 ▶
King Kong — 2 ▶
Last Of The Good Old Fashioned Steam Powered Trains — 1 ▶
Last of the Steam Powered Trains — 1 ▶
Last of the Steam-Powered Trains — 3 ▶
Last Of The Steamed Powered Trains — 1 ▶
Lavender Lane — 3 ▶
Lazy Old Sun — 1 ▶
Life On the Road (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
Life On The Road - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 11 ▶
Life On The Road 1977 — 2 ▶
Little Queenie (Saturday Club Session, 7 Sept 1964) — 1 ▶
Living On A Thin Line — 10 ▶
Lola — 353 ▶
Lola 1977 — 2 ▶
Lola (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
Lola (Mono Single Version) — 2 ▶
Lola - In Concert 1973 — 2 ▶
Lola - Golders Green Hippodrome 1974 — 2 ▶
Lola - In Concert 1973 — 1 ▶
Lola - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 12 ▶
Lola - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 2 ▶
Lola Id'd — 1 ▶
Long Tall Shorty — 1 ▶
Look for Me Baby — 1 ▶
Love Me Till The Sun Shines (Saturday Club Session, 9 Jul 1968) — 6 ▶
Maximum Exposure — 1 ▶
Medley: Picture Book/People Take Pictures Of Each Other — 2 ▶
Milk Cow Blues — 3 ▶
Milk Cow Blues #1 (Saturday Club Session, 4 Sep 1965) — 3 ▶
Milk Cow Blues (Saturday Club session 10 August 1965) — 1 ▶
Mindless Child Of Motherhood — 1 ▶
Mindless Child Of Motherhood (Radio 1 Session, 31 May 1970) — 1 ▶
Mirror Of Love — 4 ▶
Mirror Of Love (Radio 1 Session, 6 Jun 1974) — 5 ▶
Misty Water — 2 ▶
Misty Water (stereo mix) — 1 ▶
Money Talks — 3 ▶
Money Talks (Radio 1 Session, 6 Jun 1974) — 6 ▶
Monica — 1 ▶
Monica (Saturday Club Session, 9 Jul 1968) — 2 ▶
Monica (Saturday Club Session, 9 Jul 1968) — 7 ▶
Motorway — 1 ▶
Mr Pleasant (BBC Session 29th October 1967) — 1 ▶
Mr Pleasent (Top Gear Session, 25 Oct 1967) — 1 ▶
Mr. Pleasant — 3 ▶
Mr. Songbird — 1 ▶
Muswell Hillbillies — 1 ▶
Muswell Hillbilly — 3 ▶
No Return — 1 ▶
Nobody's Fool — 1 ▶
Nothin' In the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl — 6 ▶
Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl — 1 ▶
Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' Bout That Girl — 1 ▶
Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'bout That Girl — 1 ▶
Oklahoma U.S.A. — 2 ▶
Oklahoma USA — 2 ▶
One of the Survivors — 1 ▶
Party Line — 2 ▶
People Take Pictures of Each Other — 7 ▶
Phenomenal Cat — 4 ▶
Picture Book — 58 ▶
Plastic Man — 14 ▶
PME I'm Not Like Everybody Else — 1 ▶
Power Man — 1 ▶
Powerman — 10 ▶
Preservation — 1 ▶
Prince Of The Punks (live) — 1 ▶
Rainy Day In June — 6 ▶
Revenge — 4 ▶
Ring the Bells — 1 ▶
Schoolboy's In Disgrace - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 5 ▶
Schoolboys In Disgrace - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 2 ▶
Schoolboys In Disgrace 1977 — 2 ▶
Schooldays — 5 ▶
See My Friends — 25 ▶
See My Friends - (BBC Light Programme Session, 6 Aug 1965) — 6 ▶
Session Man — 1 ▶
Set Me Free — 42 ▶
Shangri La — 2 ▶
Shangri-La — 10 ▶
Shangri-La (2019 Mix) — 1 ▶
She Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina — 1 ▶
She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina — 2 ▶
She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina (2019 Remaster) — 2 ▶
She's Got Everything — 3 ▶
Shepherds of the Nation — 3 ▶
Sittin' On My Sofa — 1 ▶
Sitting in My Hotel — 2 ▶
Sitting in the Midday Sun — 3 ▶
Situation Vacant — 2 ▶
Skin And Bone — 2 ▶
Skin And Bone (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
Skin And Bone (Radio 1 Session, 5 May 1972) — 5 ▶
Skin And Bones 1977 — 1 ▶
Skin And Bones - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 6 ▶
Sleepwalker (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
Sleepwalker - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 10 ▶
Sleepwalker 1977 — 1 ▶
Slum Kids (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
Slum Kids - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 5 ▶
So Mystifying — 1 ▶
Some Mother's Son — 2 ▶
Starstruck — 7 ▶
Starstruck (2014 Remaster) — 1 ▶
State Of Confusion — 18 ▶
Stop Your Sobbing — 13 ▶
Strangers — 3 ▶
Sunny Afternoon — 329 ▶
Sunny Afternoon (BBC session 29 October 1967) — 1 ▶
Sunny Afternoon (Top Gear Session, 25 Oct 1967) — 3 ▶
Supersonic Rocket Ship — 9 ▶
Supersonic Rocket Ship (Radio 1 Session, 5 May 1972) — 2 ▶
Susannah's Still Alive — 3 ▶
Susannah's Still Alive (Top Gear Session, 25 Oct 1967) — 5 ▶
Sweet Lady Genevieve — 5 ▶
Tell Me Now So I Know (Demo Version) — 1 ▶
The Follower/Anytime 2020 — 1 ▶
The Hard Way (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
The Hard Way (Live at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 1979) — 1 ▶
the last of the steam powered train — 1 ▶
The Last Of The Steam Powered Trains — 2 ▶
The Moneygoround — 1 ▶
The Shirt — 1 ▶
The Village Green Preservation Society — 185 ▶
The Village Green Preservation Society (BBC session) — 2 ▶
The Village Green Preservation Society (Live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, 1973) — 8 ▶
The Village Green Preservation Society (Saturday Club session 26.11.1968) — 1 ▶
The Village Green Preservation Society (Saturday Club Session, 30 Nov 1968) — 6 ▶
This Strange Effect (BBC Light Programme Session, 6 Aug 1965) — 2 ▶
This Strange Effect (BBC Light Programme Session, 6 Aug 1965) — 4 ▶
This Strange Effect (Live at Aeolian Hall, 1965) — 2 ▶
This Time Tomorrow — 14 ▶
This Time Tomorrow (Alternate Take, 2020 Mix) [2020 - Remaster] — 1 ▶
Til Death Us Do Part — 1 ▶
Till the End of the Day — 173 ▶
Till The End Of The Day — 56 ▶
Till The End Of The Day (Saturday Club Session, 18 Dec 1965) — 1 ▶
Till The End Of The Day 1981 — 1 ▶
Till the End of the Day (2023 Remaster) — 1 ▶
Till The End Of The Day (BBC session) — 2 ▶
Till the End of the Day (Saturday Club session 13 December 1965) — 1 ▶
Till The End Of The Day (Saturday Club Session, 18 Dec 1965) — 5 ▶
Till The End Of The Day - BBC Session 1965 — 3 ▶
Till The End Off The Day - BBC Session 1965 — 4 ▶
Tired of Waiting for You — 183 ▶
Tired Of Waiting For You — 100 ▶
Tired Of Waiting For You (Live at Maida Vale Studios, 1965) — 1 ▶
Tired Of Waiting For You (Saturday Club, 20 Apr 1965) — 2 ▶
Too Much On My Mind — 3 ▶
Too Much On My Mind. — 2 ▶
Top of the Pops — 3 ▶
Two Sisters — 6 ▶
Uncle Son — 1 ▶
Victoria — 239 ▶
Victoria (BBC In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, 1974) — 1 ▶
Victoria (In Concert 1974) — 1 ▶
Victoria (mono mix) — 1 ▶
Victoria - Golders Green Hippodrome 1974 — 2 ▶
Victoria - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 5 ▶
Village Green — 3 ▶
Village Green Preservation Society — 5 ▶
Village Green Preservation Society - In Concert 1973 — 4 ▶
Village Green Preservation Society - In Concert 1973 — 2 ▶
Village Green Preservation Society - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 3 ▶
Waterloo Sunset — 619 ▶
Waterloo Sunset (BBC In Concert, 1973) — 7 ▶
Waterloo Sunset (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 3 ▶
Waterloo Sunset (BBC Radio 1, Jul 1968) — 2 ▶
Waterloo Sunset (Radio 1 Top Gear, 1 Jul 1968) — 1 ▶
Waterloo Sunset (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2017) — 1 ▶
Waterloo Sunset (Top Gear session 1.7.1968) — 1 ▶
Waterloo Sunset (Top Gear Session, 1 Jul 1968) — 1 ▶
Waterloo Sunset - In Concert 1973 — 4 ▶
Waterloo Sunset - BBC Session 01/07/1968 — 2 ▶
Waterloo Sunset - In Concert 1973 — 2 ▶
Waterloo Sunset - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 10 ▶
Waterloo Sunset - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 2 ▶
Waterloo Sunset 1977 — 1 ▶
Well Respected Man - BBC Session 1965 — 5 ▶
When I See That Girl of Mine — 1 ▶
When I Turn Off The Living Room Light (Live at The Riverside Studios, 4 Feb 1969) — 1 ▶
When I Turn Off The Living Room Lights (Where Was Spring? Session, 4 Feb 1969) — 1 ▶
Where Did All The Good Times Gone — 2 ▶
Where Did My Spring Go? — 2 ▶
Where Did The Spring Go? (Live at The Riverside Studios, 28 Jan 1969) — 6 ▶
Where Did The Spring Go? (Where Was Spring? Session, 28 Jan 1969) — 1 ▶
Where Have All the Good Times Gone — 28 ▶
Where Have All The Good Times Gone — 48 ▶
Where Have All The Good Times Gone (BBC session) — 4 ▶
Where Have All The Good Times Gone - BBC Session 1965 — 5 ▶
Where Have All The Good Times Gone/ Tired Of Waiting 1981 — 1 ▶
Where Have All the Good Times Gone? (Saturday Club session 13 December 1965) — 1 ▶
Where Have All The Good Times Gone? (Saturday Club Session, 18 Dec 1965) — 6 ▶
Wicked Annabella — 1 ▶
Willesden Green — 2 ▶
Wonder Boy — 18 ▶
Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (Saturday Club 10 August 1965) — 1 ▶
Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (Saturday Club Session, 4 Sep 1965) — 1 ▶
Wonderboy — 3 ▶
You Really Got Me — 670 ▶
You Really Got Me 1981 — 2 ▶
You Really Got Me (BBC In Concert, 1973) — 3 ▶
You Really Got Me (BBC In Concert, Rainbow Theatre, Christmas, 1977) — 2 ▶
You Really Got Me (Live from the Saturday Club 1964) — 1 ▶
You Really Got Me (live) — 1 ▶
You Really Got Me (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2017) — 1 ▶
You Really Got Me (Saturday Club Session, 7 Sept 1964) — 2 ▶
You Really Got Me - In Concert 1973 — 2 ▶
You Really Got Me - In Concert 1973 — 2 ▶
You Really Got Me - Rainbow Theatre 1977 — 11 ▶
You Really Got Me - Shepherd's Bush Empire1973 — 2 ▶
You Really Got Me 1977 — 2 ▶
You Shouldn't Be Sad (Saturday Club, 20 Apr 1965) — 1 ▶
You're Lookin' Fine — 1 ▶