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The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins is a group from the US, active since 1988.

Group US since 1988 alternative rock shoegaze neo-psychedelia
TOTAL PLAYS
2,197
SONGS PLAYED
193
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-18 18:35 · 6 Music — "Siva"
LAST PLAYED
16 hours ago · Radio 2 — "Today"
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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 1,815 83%
Radio 1 217 10%
Radio 2 165 8%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 06:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 1979 203 2026-05-15
2 Tonight Tonight 177 2016-09-06
3 Cherub Rock 140 2025-11-24
4 Today 134 2026-05-20
5 Siva 105 2026-05-19
6 Zero 95 2025-12-03
7 Tonight, Tonight 92 2026-04-20
8 Disarm 89 2025-02-11
9 Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts) 82 2019-06-10
10 Tarantula 79 2024-11-01
11 That's the Way (My Love Is) 74 2007-12-30
12 Bullet With Butterfly Wings 68 2026-05-15
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-20 19:03 Today Radio 2
2026-05-20 19:00 Today Radio 2
2026-05-19 07:13 Siva 6 Music
2026-05-15 22:09 Bullet With Butterfly Wings Radio 2
2026-05-15 20:45 1979 6 Music
2026-05-07 07:24 Today 6 Music
2026-05-03 23:42 Crush 6 Music
2026-05-03 12:47 Crush 6 Music
2026-04-20 02:35 Tonight, Tonight Radio 2
2026-04-13 18:34 Tonight, Tonight Radio 2
2026-03-20 23:55 Siva Radio 2
2026-03-19 20:03 1979 Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

193 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(Come On) Let's Go! — 1 ▶
1979 — 203 ▶
1979 (acoustic) — 2 ▶
1979 (Live From Reading 2007) — 1 ▶
1979 - Brixton Academy 1996 — 3 ▶
1979 <acoustic> — 1 ▶
A Girl Named Sandoz — 4 ▶
A Girl Named Sandoz - BBC Session 08/09/1991 — 1 ▶
A Song for a Son — 2 ▶
Anno Satana — 2 ▶
Ava Adore — 26 ▶
Beautiful Brixton Academy 1996 — 1 ▶
Beautiful (instrumental middle 8) — 1 ▶
Beguiled — 6 ▶
Being Beige — 54 ▶
Being Beige - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Blank Page — 1 ▶
Bleeding the Orchid — 1 ▶
Bodies — 2 ▶
Bring the Light — 2 ▶
Bullet With Butterfly Wings — 68 ▶
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Live From Reading 2007) — 1 ▶
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Live In Los Angeles 1996) — 1 ▶
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Reading Festival, 1995) — 1 ▶
Bullet With Butterfly Wings - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Reading 1995 — 2 ▶
Burnt Orange Black - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Bury Me — 1 ▶
Cherub Rock - Reading 1995 — 4 ▶
Cherub Rock — 140 ▶
Cherub Rock (Live At Reading 2007) — 1 ▶
Cherub Rock (Manchester Academy, 1993) — 1 ▶
Cherub Rock - Brixton Academy 1996 — 3 ▶
Cherub Rock - Manchester Academy 1993 — 4 ▶
Christmastime — 41 ▶
Chrome Jets — 2 ▶
Clip Tarantula — 2 ▶
Crush — 13 ▶
Cupid De Locke - Brixton Academy 1996 — 2 ▶
Cyr — 8 ▶
Dancing In The Moonlight — 1 ▶
Daphne Descends — 1 ▶
Disarm — 89 ▶
Disarm (Manchester Academy, 1993) — 2 ▶
Disarm (Recorded Live for 6 Music 5th December 2014) — 1 ▶
Disarm - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Disarm - Manchester Academy 1993 — 3 ▶
Disarm - Reading 1995 — 1 ▶
Dommsday Clock — 1 ▶
Doomsday Clock — 4 ▶
Dreaming — 1 ▶
Drown — 3 ▶
Drum & Fife - 6 Music In Concert - 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Drum + Fife — 34 ▶
Drum + Fire — 1 ▶
Dulcet In E — 1 ▶
Empires — 1 ▶
Fame - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Farewell and Goodnight — 2 ▶
Geek U.S.A. — 3 ▶
Geek US.A. - Manchester Academy 1993 — 1 ▶
Geek USA — 3 ▶
Girl Named Sandoz (Peel Session) — 1 ▶
Glynis — 1 ▶
Goeth The Fall — 4 ▶
Hummer — 8 ▶
Hummer (6 Music Session, 12 May 2014) — 1 ▶
Hummer - 6 Music In Concert - 05/12/2014 — 1 ▶
Hummer - Manchester Academy 1993 — 3 ▶
I Am One — 3 ▶
I am One (Manchester Academy, 1993) — 1 ▶
I Am One - Manchester Academy 1993 — 5 ▶
I of the Mourning — 2 ▶
Jellybelly — 2 ▶
Jellybelly - Reading 1995 — 2 ▶
Knights Of Malta — 3 ▶
Landslide — 48 ▶
Landslide (BBC session) — 2 ▶
Love — 2 ▶
Luna — 6 ▶
Marchin' On — 2 ▶
Mayonaise — 24 ▶
Mayonaise - Reading 1995 — 3 ▶
Mayonnaise — 2 ▶
Mayonnaise - Manchester Academy 1993 — 4 ▶
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — 1 ▶
Monuments — 1 ▶
Monuments - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Muzzle — 4 ▶
Neophyte — 1 ▶
Never Let Me Down — 24 ▶
Never Let Me Down (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Neverlost — 1 ▶
Obscured — 34 ▶
One and All — 5 ▶
One And All - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/2014 — 1 ▶
One Diamond, One Heart — 1 ▶
Owata — 1 ▶
Panopticon — 1 ▶
Pennies — 1 ▶
Perfect — 24 ▶
Perfect. — 8 ▶
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans - Reading Festival 1995 — 1 ▶
Quasar — 3 ▶
Quasar / Stella Polaris and the People Mover — 1 ▶
Quiet — 2 ▶
Quiet (BBC Session/BC Mix) — 1 ▶
Quiet - Manchester Academy 1993 — 3 ▶
Ramona — 2 ▶
Rhinoceros — 10 ▶
Rocket — 22 ▶
Rocket - Brixton Academy 1996 — 1 ▶
Rocket - Manchester Academy 1993 — 2 ▶
Rocket - Reading Festival 1995 — 1 ▶
Seek And You Shall Destroy — 2 ▶
Siamese Dream — 2 ▶
Sighommi — 45 ▶
Silver — 2 ▶
Silvery Sometimes — 1 ▶
Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts) — 82 ▶
Siva — 105 ▶
Siva - BBC Session 08/09/1991 — 1 ▶
Siva - Reading 1995 — 2 ▶
Smiley — 1 ▶
Snail — 2 ▶
Solara — 51 ▶
Soma - Brixton Academy 1996 — 1 ▶
Soma - Manchester Academy 1993 — 2 ▶
Soothe — 1 ▶
Spaceboy — 1 ▶
Spellbinding — 4 ▶
Stand Inside Your Love — 22 ▶
Stand Inside Your Love (Live At Reading 2007) — 1 ▶
Steps In Time — 2 ▶
Suffer — 1 ▶
Sweet Sweet — 2 ▶
Sweet Sweet (2011 Remaster) — 3 ▶
Take Me Down — 5 ▶
Tarantula — 79 ▶
Tarantula/Death From Above/Tonight Tonight — 1 ▶
That's the Way — 4 ▶
That's the Way (My Love Is) — 74 ▶
That's the Way (My Love Is) (Live At Reading 2007) — 1 ▶
That's The Way (Reading) — 1 ▶
That's The Way My Love IS — 1 ▶
The Ballad Of Dusty And Pistol Pete — 1 ▶
The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning — 1 ▶
The Boy — 1 ▶
The Celestials — 2 ▶
The Chimera — 5 ▶
The Colour Of Love — 2 ▶
The End Is the Beginning Is the End — 2 ▶
The Everlasting Gaze — 2 ▶
The Good In Goodbye — 4 ▶
The Rose March — 3 ▶
The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete — 1 ▶
Thirty Three — 41 ▶
Thirty Three Brixton Academy 1996 — 1 ▶
Through The Eyes Of Ruby 1995 — 2 ▶
Tiberius - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
To Forgive — 7 ▶
To Sheila — 9 ▶
Today — 134 ▶
Today (Live At Reading Festival 2007) — 1 ▶
Today (Live Reading edit) — 2 ▶
Today (Manchester Academy, 1993) — 7 ▶
Today - Brixton Academy 1996 — 2 ▶
Today - Manchester Academy 1993 — 2 ▶
Today - Reading 1995 — 1 ▶
Today - Reading Festival 1995 — 1 ▶
Today. — 3 ▶
Tonight / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Live At Glastonbury 2013) — 1 ▶
Tonight Tonight — 177 ▶
Tonight Tonight (long version) — 2 ▶
Tonight Tonight - Brixton Academy 1996 — 2 ▶
Tonight, Tonight — 92 ▶
Tonight, Tonight (Live At Reading 2007) — 1 ▶
Tonight, Tonight - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Tonight, Tonight <Reading 2007> — 1 ▶
Tonnight Tonight - Brixton Academy 15/05/96 — 1 ▶
Try, Try, Try — 3 ▶
Violet Rays — 2 ▶
War Dreams Of Itself — 3 ▶
War Of Dreams Itself — 1 ▶
We Only Come Out at Night — 2 ▶
Where Boys Fear To Thread — 1 ▶
Whir — 7 ▶
With Sympathy — 1 ▶
Wrath — 1 ▶
Wyttch — 1 ▶
Zero — 95 ▶
Zero - 6 Music In Concert 05/12/14 — 1 ▶
Zero - Reading 1995 — 2 ▶