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The War on Drugs

The War on Drugs is a group from the US, active since 2005.

Group US since 2005 indie rock dream pop heartland rock
TOTAL PLAYS
899
SONGS PLAYED
67
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2008-06-24 06:27 · 6 Music — "Arms Like Boulders"
LAST PLAYED
1 week ago · 6 Music — "Holding On"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2008 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 848 94%
Radio 2 27 3%
Radio 1 24 3%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 06:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Under the Pressure 123 2025-09-30
2 Red Eyes 108 2025-10-14
3 Nothing to Find 103 2025-12-16
4 Burning 72 2021-03-19
5 Eyes to the Wind 71 2020-11-08
6 Holding On 70 2026-05-08
7 I Dont Live Here Anymore 60 2025-09-18
8 Baby Missiles 50 2021-06-08
9 Pain 41 2024-04-02
10 An Ocean in Between the Waves 40 2024-04-05
11 Red Eyes (6 Music Session, 28th May 2014) 21 2025-04-08
12 Red Eyes (6 Music Lauren Laverne Session, 28 May 2014) 12 2025-05-20
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-08 20:17 Holding On 6 Music
2025-12-16 07:50 Nothing to Find 6 Music
2025-10-14 07:34 Red Eyes 6 Music
2025-10-05 02:39 Suffering 6 Music
2025-09-30 04:46 Under the Pressure 6 Music
2025-09-24 00:53 Under the Pressure 6 Music
2025-09-18 16:11 I Dont Live Here Anymore 6 Music
2025-08-31 04:56 Strangest Thing 6 Music
2025-08-29 21:53 Under the Pressure 6 Music
2025-08-12 16:59 Red Eyes 6 Music
2025-08-06 07:07 Nothing to Find 6 Music
2025-06-03 17:33 Red Eyes 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

67 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Needle In Your Eye #16 — 1 ▶
An Ocean Between The Waves (6 Music Festival 2015) — 5 ▶
An Ocean in Between the Waves — 40 ▶
Arms Like Boulders — 4 ▶
Baby Missiles — 50 ▶
Baby Missiles (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 27 Feb 2012) — 1 ▶
Baby Missiles (Glastonbury 2014) — 2 ▶
Baby Missiles - 6 Music session 27/02/2012 — 2 ▶
Baby Missiles - 6 Music Session 28/09/2011 — 4 ▶
Best Night — 4 ▶
Best Night (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 27 Feb 2012) — 1 ▶
Best Night - 6 Music session 27/02/2012 — 1 ▶
Black Water Falls — 3 ▶
Black Water Falls (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 27 Feb 2012) — 1 ▶
Black Waterfalls - 6 Music session 27/02/2012 — 2 ▶
Brothers — 1 ▶
Burning — 72 ▶
Change — 1 ▶
Come to the City — 4 ▶
Comin' Through — 1 ▶
Eyes to the Wind — 71 ▶
Eyes To The Wind (6 Music Festival 2015) — 2 ▶
Eyes To The Wind (Glastonbury 2014) — 2 ▶
Holding On — 70 ▶
I Don't Live Here Anymore — 4 ▶
I Don't Live Here Anymore (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
I Don't Wanna Wait — 1 ▶
I Don't Wanna Wait (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
I Dont Live Here Anymore — 60 ▶
I Was There — 1 ▶
Knocked Down — 2 ▶
Living Proof — 1 ▶
Lost in the Dream — 3 ▶
Nothing to Find — 103 ▶
Nothing To Find (6 Music Session, 15 Nov 2017) — 4 ▶
Nothing To Find (6 Music Session, 15th November 2017) — 1 ▶
Occasional Rain — 1 ▶
Open Up (Glastonbury 2014) — 1 ▶
Pain — 41 ▶
Pain (6 Music Session, 15th November 2017) — 1 ▶
Pain (Glastonbury 2023) — 2 ▶
Pressure (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Red Eyes — 108 ▶
Red Eyes (6 Music Festival 2015) — 10 ▶
Red Eyes (6 Music Lauren Laverne Session, 28 May 2014) — 12 ▶
Red Eyes (6 Music Session, 28th May 2014) — 21 ▶
Red Eyes (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Red Eyes (Live at the 6 Music Festival 2015) — 2 ▶
Red Eyes - 6 Music Festival - RX 20/02/2015 — 1 ▶
Rings Around My Father's Eyes — 1 ▶
Song Title (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Strangest Thing — 8 ▶
Suffering — 5 ▶
Taking The Farm — 1 ▶
The Haunting Idle — 1 ▶
Thinking of a Place — 11 ▶
Under the Pressure — 123 ▶
Under The Pressure (6 Music Festival 2015) — 5 ▶
Under The Pressure (Glastonbury 2014) — 2 ▶
Under The Pressure (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Up All Night — 2 ▶
Victim (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Wasted — 1 ▶
Your Love Is Calling My Name — 4 ▶
Your Love Is Calling My Name (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 27 Feb 2012) — 1 ▶
Your Love Is Calling My Name - 6 Music session 27/02/2012 — 1 ▶
Your Love Is Calling My Name - 6 Music session 28/09/2011 — 1 ▶