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The Verve

The Verve is a group from the UK, active from 1989.

Group GB 1989–2009 alternative rock britpop british
TOTAL PLAYS
2,515
SONGS PLAYED
118
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-16 22:06 · 6 Music — "Weeping Willow"
LAST PLAYED
1 week ago · Radio 2 — "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
600 450 300 150 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 1,151 46%
Radio 2 848 34%
Radio 1 510 20%
1Xtra 6 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 02:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Bitter Sweet Symphony 744 2026-05-14
2 Love Is Noise 428 2025-08-14
3 Lucky Man 271 2026-04-28
4 Sonnet 178 2026-05-14
5 The Drugs Don't Work 160 2026-05-04
6 Bittersweet Symphony 121 2016-08-29
7 This Is Music 113 2026-04-02
8 History 107 2026-04-02
9 Rather Be 97 2008-11-23
10 On Your Own 42 2020-12-06
11 So It Goes 16 2025-07-21
12 Weeping Willow 16 2023-02-01
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-14 09:55 Bitter Sweet Symphony Radio 2
2026-05-14 02:19 Sonnet Radio 2
2026-05-12 04:35 Bitter Sweet Symphony 6 Music
2026-05-06 03:33 Bitter Sweet Symphony Radio 2
2026-05-04 02:16 The Drugs Don't Work Radio 2
2026-04-28 08:36 Lucky Man Radio 2
2026-04-07 01:32 Lucky Man Radio 2
2026-04-06 14:46 Bitter Sweet Symphony Radio 2
2026-04-06 02:44 Sonnet Radio 2
2026-04-02 02:47 History Radio 2
2026-04-02 02:43 This Is Music Radio 2
2026-03-27 12:31 Lucky Man Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

118 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Man Called Sun — 1 ▶
A New Decade — 3 ▶
A Northern Soul — 2 ▶
All In The Mind — 3 ▶
Already There (Radio 1 Session, 13 Feb 1992) — 2 ▶
Appalachian Springs — 2 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony — 744 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony (Album Version) — 1 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony (Haigh Hall, 24 May 1998) — 1 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony (James Levelle Remix) — 2 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony (Live at Maida Vale) — 2 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony - Extended Version — 1 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 2 ▶
Bitter Sweet Symphony on vinyl — 1 ▶
Bittersweet (Edit) — 2 ▶
Bittersweet Sympathy/ Love Is Noise (Glasto 08) — 1 ▶
Bittersweet Symphony — 121 ▶
Bittersweet Symphony (James Lavelle remix) — 1 ▶
Bittersweet Symphony (Keeno Bootleg) — 2 ▶
Bittersweet Symphony <Maida Vale Aug08> — 3 ▶
Catching the Butterfly — 3 ▶
Catching The Butterfly (Haigh Hall, 24 May 1998) — 1 ▶
Catching The Butterfly - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Come On — 1 ▶
Come On - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Come On - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 1 ▶
Copy Of This Is Music 1997 — 1 ▶
Drive You Home — 5 ▶
Drugs Don't Work (demo) — 2 ▶
Drugs Don't Work (Glasto 08) — 1 ▶
Endless Life — 1 ▶
Gravity Grave (Glastonbury 1993) — 1 ▶
History — 107 ▶
History - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 3 ▶
I See Houses — 1 ▶
Judas — 1 ▶
Life's An Ocean — 6 ▶
Life's An Ocean (Haigh Hall, 24 May 1998) — 1 ▶
Life's An Ocean - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Life's An Ocean - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 1 ▶
Life's An Ocean - Reading 1997 — 4 ▶
Life's An Ocean 1997 — 5 ▶
Love Is A Curse — 1 ▶
Love Is Noise — 428 ▶
Love Is Noise (Scott Mills Pingu Remix) — 2 ▶
Love is Noise <Live at MV> — 2 ▶
Love Is Noise <Live From T In The Park 2008> — 1 ▶
Lucky Man — 271 ▶
Lucky Man (Happiness More or Less mix) — 2 ▶
Lucky Man (with ding) — 1 ▶
Lucky Man - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Lucky Man - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 2 ▶
Lucky Man <Live from Glastonbury> — 1 ▶
Lucky Man <live from T in the Park 2008> — 1 ▶
Lucky Man <Live MV> — 2 ▶
Lucky Man on vinyl — 1 ▶
Man Called Sun — 1 ▶
Mover (DO NOT PLAY) — 1 ▶
Neon Wilderness — 1 ▶
New Decade 1997 — 5 ▶
New Decade - Reading 1997 — 3 ▶
Northern Soul - Reading 1997 — 3 ▶
Northern Soul 1997 — 3 ▶
On Your Own — 42 ▶
On Your Own 1997 — 7 ▶
On Your Own (BBC session) — 5 ▶
On Your Own - Reading 1997 — 4 ▶
One Day — 1 ▶
Rather Be — 97 ▶
Rather Be (Radio Edit) — 3 ▶
See You In The Next One (Have A Good Time) — 1 ▶
She's A Superstar (Hit The North Session Feb.1992) — 1 ▶
Sit And Wonder — 1 ▶
Slide Away — 3 ▶
Slide Away (Radio 1 Session, 13 Feb 1992) — 2 ▶
Slide Away - Reading 1997 — 4 ▶
Slide Away 1997 — 7 ▶
Slide Away <Live> — 1 ▶
So It Goes — 16 ▶
Sonnet — 178 ▶
Sonnet (MV Session) — 1 ▶
Sonnet - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Sonnet - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 2 ▶
Space & Time — 1 ▶
Space and Time — 4 ▶
Space And Time - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Space And Time - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 1 ▶
Star Sail — 5 ▶
Superstar (Radio 1 Session, 13 Feb 1992) — 1 ▶
Superstar (Radio 1 Session, 13 Feb 1992) — 2 ▶
Superstar <LIVE> — 1 ▶
the drug don't work — 1 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work — 160 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work (album version) — 1 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work (BBC Evening Session) — 1 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 1 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work - Live At Glastonbury 2008 — 2 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work - Reading 1997 — 4 ▶
The Drugs Don't Work 1997 — 7 ▶
The Rolling People — 2 ▶
The Thaw Session — 1 ▶
The Thaw Sessions — 1 ▶
This Could Be My Moment — 1 ▶
This Is Music — 113 ▶
This Is Music (BBC session) — 3 ▶
This Is Music - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
This Is Music - Haigh Hall Wigan 1998 — 3 ▶
This Is Music - Reading 1997 — 4 ▶
This Is Music 1997 — 7 ▶
This Time — 1 ▶
Untitled (Radio 1 Session, 13 Feb 1992) — 1 ▶
Valium Skies — 2 ▶
Velvet Morning — 6 ▶
Velvet Morning - Haigh Hall 1998 — 1 ▶
Verve Interview <2.45> Love Is Noise — 1 ▶
Weeping Willow — 16 ▶