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The Strokes

The Strokes is a group from the US, active since 1998.

Group US since 1998 indie rock garage rock revival post-punk revival
TOTAL PLAYS
3,582
SONGS PLAYED
132
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-18 08:28 · 6 Music — "Last Nite"
LAST PLAYED
1 day ago · 6 Music — "Hard to Explain"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
700 525 350 175 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 2,497 70%
Radio 1 849 24%
Radio 2 234 7%
1Xtra 2 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 07:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Last Nite 559 2026-05-19
2 Someday 345 2026-05-17
3 Reptilia 223 2026-04-02
4 12:51 215 2026-05-16
5 Under Cover Of Darkness 210 2013-01-02
6 Hard to Explain 203 2026-05-19
7 You Only Live Once 203 2025-12-19
8 Juicebox 177 2025-12-29
9 Taken For A Fool 144 2011-11-22
10 The Modern Age 124 2025-12-08
11 Machu Picchu 108 2025-09-09
12 Oblivius 80 2023-08-15
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-19 23:54 Hard to Explain 6 Music
2026-05-19 02:25 Last Nite Radio 1
2026-05-17 09:09 Someday Radio 1
2026-05-16 09:57 12:51 Radio 1
2026-05-14 23:00 Falling out of Love 6 Music
2026-05-14 18:10 Hard to Explain Radio 2
2026-05-14 17:51 Falling out of Love Radio 1
2026-05-13 18:40 Falling out of Love Radio 2
2026-05-13 18:00 Falling out of Love 6 Music
2026-05-13 14:51 Falling out of Love 6 Music
2026-05-09 09:14 Going Shopping 6 Music
2026-05-08 12:04 Going Shopping 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

132 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
12:51 — 215 ▶
15 Minutes (University of London 2005) — 2 ▶
80s Comedown Machine — 1 ▶
All the Time — 56 ▶
Alone Together — 2 ▶
Alone, Together — 1 ▶
Ask Me Anything — 2 ▶
At the Door — 20 ▶
Automatic Stop — 2 ▶
Bad Decisions — 28 ▶
Barely Legal - University Of London 2005 — 1 ▶
Barely Legal — 5 ▶
Barely Legal - University Of London 2005 — 2 ▶
Barley Legal - Reading 2002 — 1 ▶
Between Love and Hate — 1 ▶
Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus — 37 ▶
Call It Fate, Call It Karma — 7 ▶
Call Me Back — 3 ▶
Chances — 2 ▶
Dracula's Lunch — 1 ▶
Electricityscape — 1 ▶
End Has No End - University Of London 2005 — 7 ▶
Eternal Summer — 2 ▶
Evening Sun — 1 ▶
Evening Sun - University Of London 2005 — 11 ▶
Falling out of Love — 5 ▶
Going Shopping — 24 ▶
Gratisfaction — 8 ▶
Hard to Explain — 203 ▶
Hard To Explain (Live at Reading Festival 2011) — 1 ▶
Hard To Explain (Peel Session 27.6.01) — 2 ▶
Hard To Explain - University Of London 2005 — 11 ▶
Hawaii — 1 ▶
Hawaii - University Of London 2005 — 10 ▶
Heart In a Cage — 69 ▶
Heart In A Cage — 43 ▶
Heart in a Cage (2006 Session) — 2 ▶
Heart In A Cage - University Of London 2005 — 13 ▶
I'll Try Anything Once — 5 ▶
I'll Try Anything Once (Somewhere Soundtrack Version) — 1 ▶
Is This It — 28 ▶
Is This It - University Of London 2005 — 36 ▶
Is This It? — 3 ▶
Ize of the World — 1 ▶
Juicebox — 177 ▶
Juicebox - University Of London 2005 — 16 ▶
Last Night — 4 ▶
Last Night (Radio 1 Session, 6 Feb 2001) — 5 ▶
Last Night - BBC Session 06/02/2001 — 2 ▶
Last Night <Live from T in The Park 2006> — 1 ▶
Last Nite — 559 ▶
Last Nite (1000 Albums) — 1 ▶
Last Nite (Live - T in the Park 2006 - for Bank Holiday Monday '07) — 1 ▶
Last Nite (Live At Radio 1's Big Weekend Carlisle 2011) — 1 ▶
Last Nite (Recorded live at Reading Festival 2011) — 1 ▶
Last Nite - Live At T In The Park 2006 — 1 ▶
Last Nite - University Of London 2005 — 8 ▶
Late Nite - University Of London 2005 — 1 ▶
Life Is Simple in the Moonlight — 2 ▶
Life Is Simple In The Moonlight — 1 ▶
Life's a Gas (Radio 1 Session Ramones cover 2006) — 2 ▶
Machu Picchu — 108 ▶
Meet Me in the Bathroom — 14 ▶
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) — 2 ▶
Modern Girls And Old Fashioned Men (feat. Regina Spektor) — 2 ▶
N.Y.C. Cops — 4 ▶
N.Y.C. Cops (Radio 1 Session, 6 Feb 2001) — 6 ▶
N.Y.C. Cops - BBC Session 06/02/2001 — 5 ▶
New York City Cops — 24 ▶
New York City Cops (Clean) — 1 ▶
New York City Cops (Edit) — 2 ▶
New York City Cops - Evening Session 06/02/01 — 1 ▶
New York City Cops - University Of London 2005 — 9 ▶
New York City Cops <Clean Edit> — 1 ▶
Oblivius — 80 ▶
On The Other Side - University Of London 2005 — 1 ▶
On The Otherside - University Of London 2005 — 13 ▶
One Way Trigger — 43 ▶
Razor Blade - University Of London 2005 — 12 ▶
Reptilia — 223 ▶
Reptilia (Howard remix) — 1 ▶
Reptilia - University Of London 2005 — 11 ▶
Selfless — 4 ▶
Soma — 8 ▶
Soma (Radio 1 Session, 6 Feb 2001) — 5 ▶
Soma - BBC Session 06/02/2001 — 6 ▶
Someday — 345 ▶
Someday (Harry Kaze Remix) — 1 ▶
Someday (Live at Maida Vale) — 1 ▶
Someday (Live At Radio 1's Big Weekend Carlisle 2011) — 1 ▶
Someday (Peel Session 27.6.01) — 2 ▶
Someday - University Of London 2005 — 6 ▶
Take It or Leave It — 5 ▶
Take It Or Leave It — 2 ▶
Take It Or Leave It - University Of London 2005 — 14 ▶
Taken For A Fool — 2 ▶
Taken for a Fool — 40 ▶
Taken For A Fool — 144 ▶
Tap Out — 5 ▶
The Adults Are Talking — 24 ▶
The End Has No End — 3 ▶
The End Has No End (University of London 2005) — 1 ▶
The Modern Age — 124 ▶
The Modern Age (Peel Session 27.6.01) — 2 ▶
The Modern Age (Rough Trade Version) — 1 ▶
The Way It Is — 1 ▶
This Life — 2 ▶
This Life (Radio 1 Session, 6 Feb 2001) — 2 ▶
This Life - BBC Session 06/02/2001 — 1 ▶
Threat Of Joy — 7 ▶
Trying Your Luck — 5 ▶
Trying Your Luck (BBC Session 060201) — 2 ▶
Two Kinds of Happiness — 3 ▶
Two Kinds Of Happiness — 2 ▶
Under Control — 11 ▶
Under Control - University Of London 2005 — 5 ▶
Under Cover of Darkness — 66 ▶
Under Cover Of Darkness — 210 ▶
Under Cover Of Darkness (T In The Park 2011) — 2 ▶
Undercover/Someday/Taken For A Fool (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend Carlisle 2011 — 1 ▶
Vision Of Division — 2 ▶
Vison of Division — 3 ▶
Welcome to Japan — 1 ▶
What Ever Happened? — 14 ▶
Whatever Happened — 1 ▶
When It Started — 51 ▶
Why Are Sunday's So Depressing — 1 ▶
You Only Live Once — 203 ▶
You Only Live Once (Session 2006) — 2 ▶
You Only Live Once - University Of London 2005 — 8 ▶
You Talk Way Too Much — 6 ▶
You're So Right — 1 ▶