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The Shires

The Shires is a group from the UK, active since 2013.

Group GB since 2013 country uk
TOTAL PLAYS
1,153
SONGS PLAYED
96
STATIONS
2
FIRST PLAYED
2014-03-20 22:49 · Radio 2 — "Nashville Grey Skies [Live]"
LAST PLAYED
1 month ago · Radio 2 — "Watching You Watching Me"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2014 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 2 1,152 100%
6 Music 1 0%
Radio 1 0 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 10:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Friday Night 101 2023-02-26
2 A Thousand Hallelujahs 82 2020-09-09
3 Nashville Grey Skies 76 2019-07-25
4 Beats to Your Rhythm 69 2017-10-06
5 Guilty 67 2020-02-28
6 State Lines 65 2016-02-14
7 Independence Day 64 2020-03-19
8 Echo 63 2020-03-14
9 All Over Again 58 2019-01-20
10 I Just Wanna Love You 56 2015-11-10
11 Sleepwalk 51 2018-08-02
12 Tonight 50 2025-10-23
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-07-23 01:39 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-07-22 04:51 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-07-20 01:45 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-07-19 09:39 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-07-18 13:27 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-07-14 17:51 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-07-12 06:52 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-05-21 20:47 It Won't Be Like This For Long (Radio 2 Session, 21 May 2026) Radio 2
2026-05-21 20:43 A Thousand Hallelujahs (Radio 2 Session, 21 May 2026) Radio 2
2026-05-21 20:37 Getaway Car (Radio 2 Session, 21 May 2026) Radio 2
2026-05-21 06:52 Watching You Watching Me Radio 2
2026-04-22 01:39 Getaway Car Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

96 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Bar Without You — 2 ▶
A Thousand Hallelujahs — 82 ▶
A Thousand Hallelujahs (Bob Harris Country session 13.10.16) — 1 ▶
A Thousand Hallelujahs (Live from the Radio 2 Country Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
A Thousand Hallelujahs (Radio 2 House Music, 25 Sept 2020) — 1 ▶
A Thousand Hallelujahs (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018) — 1 ▶
A Thousand Hallelujahs (Radio 2 Session, 21 May 2026) — 1 ▶
About Last Night — 33 ▶
About Last Night (Live from the Radio 2 Country Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
Accidentally on Purpose — 2 ▶
Ahead of the Storm — 2 ▶
All Over Again — 58 ▶
Baby We're Rich — 2 ▶
Beats to Your Rhythm — 69 ▶
Brave — 15 ▶
Can't Help Falling In Love (Radio 2 Chris Evans at the Royal Wedding 2018) — 1 ▶
Crazy Days — 36 ▶
Crazy Days (Radio 2 House Music, 25 Sept 2020) — 1 ▶
Cut Me Loose — 36 ▶
Daddy's Little Girl — 41 ▶
Desperate (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 July 2017) — 1 ▶
Drive — 25 ▶
Easy (Glastonbury 2015) — 1 ▶
Echo — 63 ▶
Echo (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018) — 1 ▶
Echo (Radio 2 Session 12th August 2018) — 1 ▶
Falling (Radio 2 Piano Room, 17/03/2020) — 1 ▶
Friday Night — 101 ▶
Friday Night (Live Version) — 1 ▶
Friday Night (Radio 2 Session) — 1 ▶
Getaway Car — 17 ▶
Getaway Car (Radio 2 Session, 21 May 2026) — 1 ▶
Good Years — 4 ▶
Good Years (Live at the Radio 2 Country Festival, 14.03.2020) — 1 ▶
Good Years (Live from the Radio 2 Country Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
Guilty — 67 ▶
Guilty (Live with Chris Evans at the Royal Wedding 2018) — 1 ▶
Guilty (Radio 2 Chris Evans at the Royal Wedding 2018) — 1 ▶
Guilty (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018) — 3 ▶
Guilty (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 2 ▶
I Just Wanna Love You — 56 ▶
I Just Wanna Love You (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
I Just Wanna Love You (Radio 2 Piano Room,18 July 2017) — 2 ▶
I See Stars — 19 ▶
I See Stars (C2C: Country to Country Festival 2022) — 1 ▶
Independance Day — 1 ▶
Independence Day — 64 ▶
Independence Day (Radio 2 Piano Room, 17/03/2020) — 1 ▶
Islands in the Stream — 6 ▶
It Won't Be Like This For Long (Radio 2 Session, 21 May 2026) — 1 ▶
It's Only Midnight - session version — 1 ▶
Jekyll and Hyde — 1 ▶
Lightning Strikes — 1 ▶
Lightning Strikes (Live from the Radio 2 Country Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
Loving You Too Long — 2 ▶
Made in England — 1 ▶
Memory (Andrew Lloyd Webber Variations, Apr 2018) — 6 ▶
My Universe — 9 ▶
Nashville Country Skies (Live from the Radio 2 Country Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
Nashville Grey Skies — 76 ▶
Nashville Grey Skies (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018) — 2 ▶
Nashville Grey Skies [Live] — 1 ▶
Nashville Grey Skies [Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park] — 1 ▶
Nashville Grey Skies: Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park 090918 — 1 ▶
New Year — 9 ▶
On the Day I Die — 2 ▶
On The Day I Die (feat. Jimmie Allen) — 2 ▶
Only Midnight — 1 ▶
Plot Twist — 1 ▶
Plot Twist (C2C: Country to Country Festival 2022) — 1 ▶
Rewrite The Stars (Radio 2 Session 12th August 2018) — 1 ▶
Side by Side — 2 ▶
Sleepwalk — 51 ▶
Sleepwalk (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 1 ▶
State Lines — 65 ▶
State Lines (Glastonbury 2015) — 2 ▶
State Lines (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018) — 1 ▶
State Lines (Radio 2 Piano Room, 17/03/2020) — 1 ▶
State Lines (Radio 2 Session) — 1 ▶
State Lines - Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park - RX 09/09/2018 — 1 ▶
Stateline (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018) — 1 ▶
Stay the Night — 1 ▶
SW Friday Night — 1 ▶
SW State Lines — 1 ▶
SW Tonight — 1 ▶
The Hard Way — 2 ▶
The Hard Way (Bob Harris Country Session 17.05.2018) — 1 ▶
Tonight — 50 ▶
Tonight (Live from the Radio 2 Country Festival 2020) — 1 ▶
Tonight (Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2018) — 1 ▶
Tonight (Radio 2 Session) — 1 ▶
Tonight (The Biggest Weekend 2018) — 1 ▶
Tonight (Undone) — 1 ▶
Watching You Watching Me — 8 ▶
When You Say Nothing At All — 1 ▶
With Or Without You (Radio 2 Piano Room, 18 July 2017) — 3 ▶