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The Specials

The Specials is a group from the UK, active since 1977.

Group GB since 1977 ska 2 tone reggae
TOTAL PLAYS
3,437
SONGS PLAYED
211
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-15 06:03 · 6 Music — "Ghost Town"
LAST PLAYED
3 days ago · Radio 2 — "A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez)"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
400 300 200 100 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 2,629 76%
Radio 2 699 20%
Radio 1 73 2%
1Xtra 36 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 17:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Ghost Town 551 2026-04-12
2 Gangsters 433 2026-05-09
3 Too Much Too Young 400 2026-05-06
4 Rat Race 380 2026-03-11
5 Do Nothing 250 2025-11-28
6 A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez) 230 2026-05-17
7 Stereotype 145 2025-08-19
8 Vote For Me 97 2025-10-04
9 Skinhead Symphony 67 2025-05-19
10 Embarrassed by You 61 2025-08-30
11 Doesn't Make It Alright 56 2025-11-27
12 Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) 52 2020-12-26
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-17 22:36 A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez) Radio 2
2026-05-13 19:43 A Message to You Rudy 6 Music
2026-05-09 17:13 Gangsters Radio 2
2026-05-06 13:54 Too Much Too Young 6 Music
2026-04-24 03:17 A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez) Radio 2
2026-04-12 04:55 Ghost Town 1Xtra
2026-04-09 22:47 Ghost Town Radio 2
2026-04-05 13:55 Ghost Town 1Xtra
2026-03-23 19:27 Gangsters Radio 2
2026-03-22 15:57 A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez) Radio 2
2026-03-11 22:36 Rat Race Radio 2
2026-02-18 22:30 A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez) Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

211 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(Dawning of A) New Era — 6 ▶
(Dawning of) A New Era — 2 ▶
10 Commandments (Feat. Saffiyah Khan) — 2 ▶
A Message To You (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
A Message to You Rudy — 39 ▶
A Message To You Rudy — 27 ▶
A Message To You Rudy (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 2 ▶
A Message To You Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez) — 9 ▶
A Message to You Rudy (Live at The 100 Club) — 1 ▶
A Message To You Rudy (Live from Maida Vale) — 3 ▶
A Message To You Rudy (Radio 2 Session, 27th Aug 2021) — 1 ▶
A Message to You, Rudy — 2 ▶
A Message To You, Rudy (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez) — 230 ▶
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 1 ▶
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around — 1 ▶
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around (6 Music Session, 29 Sep 2022) — 1 ▶
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 1 ▶
Black Skin Blue Eyed Boy (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys — 1 ▶
Black, Brown And White — 1 ▶
Blam Blam Fever — 2 ▶
Blam Blam Fever (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Blank Expression — 32 ▶
Blank Expression (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Blank Expression - Paris Theatre 1979 — 2 ▶
Break Down the Door — 1 ▶
Breaking Point — 1 ▶
Breaking Point (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Bright Lights — 1 ▶
Bright Lights (Radio 1 Session, 12 Sept 1983) — 1 ▶
Can't Get a Break — 1 ▶
Concerete Jungle - Paris Theatre 1979 — 2 ▶
Concrete Jungle — 10 ▶
Concrete Jungle (BBC Session 23rd May 1979 - Edit) — 1 ▶
Concrete Jungle (Radio 1 Session, 23rd May 1979) — 3 ▶
Concrete Jungle - BBC Session 23/05/1979 — 2 ▶
Dawning Of A New Era — 7 ▶
Dawning Of A New Era - Paris Theatre 1979 — 7 ▶
Do Nothing — 250 ▶
Do Nothing (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Do Nothing (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 2 ▶
Do the Dog — 11 ▶
Do The Dog — 5 ▶
Do The Dog - Paris Theatre 1979 — 4 ▶
Doesn't Make It Alright — 56 ▶
Doesn't Make It Alright (Maida Vale 12/12/12) — 2 ▶
Doesn't make it right — 1 ▶
Embarrassed by You — 61 ▶
Embarrassed By You (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 2 ▶
Embarrassed By You (BREAKFAST LOOP) — 1 ▶
Enjoy Yourself — 38 ▶
Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) — 52 ▶
Enjoy Yourself (Live at The 100 Club) — 1 ▶
Everybody Knows — 25 ▶
Everybody Knows (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 2 ▶
Free Nelson Mandela — 19 ▶
Freedom Highway — 26 ▶
Freedom Highway (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 3 ▶
Freedom Highway (Radio 2 Session, 27th Aug 2021) — 1 ▶
Friday Night, Saturday Morning — 29 ▶
Gangsters — 433 ▶
Gangsters (John Peel Session 23.05.1979) — 1 ▶
Gangsters 1979 — 1 ▶
Gangsters (6 Music Session for Steve Lamacq, 1 February 2019) — 1 ▶
Gangsters (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 2 ▶
Gangsters (Bassnectar Remix) — 1 ▶
Gangsters (BBC In Concert, 15 Dec 1979) — 1 ▶
Gangsters (BBC Radio 1 Session, 23 May 1979) — 1 ▶
Gangsters (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Gangsters (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Gangsters (John Peel Session, 23 May 1979) — 1 ▶
Gangsters (Radio 1 Session, 23 May 1979) — 1 ▶
Gangsters (Radio 1 Session, 23rd May 1979) — 6 ▶
Gangsters - 2015 Remastered — 2 ▶
Gangsters - 6 Music Live Session - Independent Venues Week — 1 ▶
Gangsters - 6 Music Session 12/12/12 — 1 ▶
Gangsters - BBC Session — 1 ▶
Gangsters - BBC Session 23/05/1979 — 4 ▶
Gangsters - Live From Glastonbury 2009 — 1 ▶
Gangsters - Paris Theatre 1979 — 5 ▶
Gangsters Live at Maida Vale 12th Dec 2012 — 2 ▶
Get Up Stand Up — 1 ▶
Ghost Town — 551 ▶
Ghost Town (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Ghost Town (DJG bootleg) — 1 ▶
Ghost Town (extended version) — 2 ▶
Ghost Town (Full Version) — 1 ▶
Ghost Town (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Ghost Town (Live from Maida Vale 12th December 2012) — 2 ▶
Ghost Town (Prodigy Remix) — 1 ▶
Ghost Town (Remix) — 2 ▶
Ghost Town - Live From Glastonbury 2009 — 1 ▶
Ghost Town 12" Version — 3 ▶
Guns of Navarone — 7 ▶
Guns Of Navarone - Paris Theatre 1979 — 5 ▶
Hey Little Rich Girl — 3 ▶
Hey, Little Rich Girl — 9 ▶
I Can't Stand It — 1 ▶
I Can't Stand It (feat. Rhoda Dakar) — 1 ▶
I Just Can't Stand It — 1 ▶
I Think I'm Paranoid — 1 ▶
International Jet Set — 7 ▶
It Doesn't Make It Alright — 1 ▶
It's Up to You — 8 ▶
It's Up To You (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
It's up to You (Live at the Moonlight Club, May 1979) — 1 ▶
It's Up To You - Paris Theatre 1979 — 1 ▶
Its Up To You - Specials — 1 ▶
It’s Up to You — 1 ▶
Listening Wind — 1 ▶
Listening Wind (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 2 ▶
Little B**** (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Little Bitch — 2 ▶
Lonely Crowd (Radio 1 Session, 12 Sept 1983) — 1 ▶
Long Shot Kick The Bucket / Skinhead Moonstomp - Paris Theatre 1979 — 5 ▶
Long Shot Kick The Bucket/Liquidator/Skinhead Moonstomp — 1 ▶
Long Shot Kick The Bucket/Liquidator/Skinhead Moonstomp (Radio 1 Session, 15 Oct 1979) — 2 ▶
Man at C&A — 8 ▶
Man At C&A — 4 ▶
Man At C&A (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Monkey Man — 15 ▶
Monkey Man (John Peel Session 23.05.1979) — 1 ▶
Monkey Man (John Peel Session, 23 May 1979) — 1 ▶
Monkey Man BBC Session 23/05/1979 — 3 ▶
Monkey Man (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 2 ▶
Monkey Man (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Monkey Man (Live at the 100 Club) — 3 ▶
Monkey Man (Live at the 100 Club, 1st Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Monkey Man (Radio 1 Session, 23 May 1979) — 1 ▶
Monkey Man (Radio 1 Session, 23rd May 1979) — 3 ▶
Monkey Man - BBC Session 23/05/1979 — 6 ▶
Nelson Mandela — 4 ▶
Nightclub (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Nite Club — 4 ▶
Nite Club - Paris Theatre 1979 — 1 ▶
Nite Klub — 14 ▶
Nite Klub (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Nite Klub (BBC In Concert Live at the Paris Theatre, 15th Dec 1979) — 1 ▶
Nite Klub (full version) — 1 ▶
Nite Klub (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Pearl's Cafe — 1 ▶
Pressure Drop — 5 ▶
Racist Friend — 1 ▶
Racquel — 4 ▶
Racquel (Radio 1 Session, 1 Dec 1980) — 1 ▶
Rascist Friend (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
Rat Race — 380 ▶
Rat Race (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 2 ▶
Rat Race (BBC Session) — 2 ▶
Rat Race (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Rat Race (Live from Colchester Institute, 21/01/1980) — 1 ▶
Rat Race (Radio 1 Session, 15 Oct 1979) — 4 ▶
Rat Race - Live From Glastonbury 2009 — 1 ▶
Rat Race - Paris Theatre 1979 — 2 ▶
Rat Race 6 Music Session 12/12/2012 — 2 ▶
Rat Race [Edit] — 1 ▶
Rude Boys Out Of Jail — 5 ▶
Rude Boys Out Of Jail - Paris Theatre 1979 — 3 ▶
Rude Boys Outa Jail — 3 ▶
Rude Boys Outta Jail — 3 ▶
Rude Boys Outta Jail (Radio 1 Session, 15 Oct 1979) — 5 ▶
Sea Cruise — 5 ▶
Sea Cruise (Radio 1 Session, 1 Dec 1980) — 3 ▶
Skinhead Moonstomp — 4 ▶
Skinhead Moonstomp - Paris Theatre 1979 — 2 ▶
Skinhead Moonstomp 1979 — 2 ▶
Skinhead Symphony — 67 ▶
Skinhead Symphony (BBC Session) — 2 ▶
Sock It to 'em J.B. — 2 ▶
Stereotype — 145 ▶
Stereotype (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Stereotype (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2021) — 1 ▶
Stereotype (Radio 1 Session, 1 Dec 1980) — 2 ▶
Stereotype [CLIP] — 1 ▶
Stupid Marriage — 6 ▶
Ten Commandments (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
The Life and Times (of a Man Called Depression) — 3 ▶
The Lunatics — 3 ▶
The Skinhead Symphony — 2 ▶
Too Hot — 4 ▶
Too Much Too Young — 400 ▶
Too Much Too Young (John Peel Session 23.05.1979) — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young (John Peel Session, 23 May 1979) — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young (Live at Maida Vale) — 2 ▶
Too Much Too Young (Live from Maida Vale) — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young (Live Single Version) — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young (Radio 1 Session, 23rd May 1979) — 4 ▶
Too Much Too Young - BBC Session — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young - BBC Session 23/05/1979 — 4 ▶
Too Much Too Young - Live From Glastonbury 2009 — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young - Live Glastonbury 2009 — 2 ▶
Too Much Too Young - Paris Theatre 1979 — 8 ▶
Too Much Too Young - Peel Session 1979 — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young / Ghost Town - Glastonbury 2009 — 1 ▶
Too Much Too Young Live from Maida Vale (12th December 2012) — 3 ▶
Trouble Every Day — 1 ▶
Vote For Me — 97 ▶
Vote For Me (6 Music Session, 1 Feb 2019) — 1 ▶
Vote For Me (Live at 100 Club) — 2 ▶
We Sell Hope — 1 ▶
What I Like Miost About You Is Your Girlfriend — 1 ▶
What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend — 4 ▶
What I Like Most About You is Your Girlfriend — 3 ▶
Why — 1 ▶
Why? — 1 ▶
You're Wondering Now — 26 ▶
You're Wondering Now & Ghost Town (feat. Amy Winehouse) — 1 ▶
You're Wondering Now (Glastonbury 2009) — 1 ▶