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Tom Waits

Tom Waits is a person from the US, active since 1949.

Person US since 1949 blues rock folk experimental
TOTAL PLAYS
1,598
SONGS PLAYED
291
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-14 12:25 · 6 Music — "The Heart of Saturday Night"
LAST PLAYED
3 days ago · 6 Music — "Martha"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
200 150 100 50 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 1,379 86%
Radio 2 202 13%
Radio 1 17 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 14:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Downtown Train 131 2025-10-02
2 The Heart of Saturday Night 52 2023-11-21
3 Martha 44 2026-05-17
4 Picture in a Frame 38 2025-12-08
5 Long Way Home. 34 2006-10-29
6 What's He Building? 32 2025-12-08
7 Back in the Crowd 31 2024-12-25
8 Jockey Full of Bourbon 30 2025-12-08
9 Way Down in the Hole 30 2024-03-24
10 Rain Dogs 29 2024-11-11
11 Shore Leave 26 2025-09-24
12 Hold On 24 2026-04-23
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-17 21:48 Martha 6 Music
2026-05-17 21:46 Closing Time 6 Music
2026-05-03 23:38 Who Are You 6 Music
2026-05-03 12:43 Who Are You 6 Music
2026-04-23 02:56 Hold On Radio 2
2026-04-07 19:28 Ruby's Arms Radio 2
2025-12-30 23:31 Martha 6 Music
2025-12-22 23:07 Hold On 6 Music
2025-12-21 05:38 Martha Radio 2
2025-12-18 21:20 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six 6 Music
2025-12-10 22:43 Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis 6 Music
2025-12-08 02:56 Picture in a Frame 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

291 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night — 7 ▶
16 Shells from a 30.6 — 2 ▶
16 Shells From A 30.6 — 2 ▶
16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six — 21 ▶
9th & Hennepin — 3 ▶
A Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis — 1 ▶
A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun — 1 ▶
Alice — 19 ▶
All Stripped Down — 1 ▶
All the World Is Green — 7 ▶
Anywhere I Lay My Head — 4 ▶
Army Ants — 1 ▶
Back in the Crowd — 31 ▶
Bad as Me — 3 ▶
Bad As Me — 3 ▶
Bad Liver & A Broken Heart — 1 ▶
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart — 1 ▶
Barber Shop — 1 ▶
Barcarolle — 1 ▶
Bend Down the Branches — 3 ▶
Better Off Without a Wife — 5 ▶
Big Black Mariah — 7 ▶
Big Black Mariah (2023 Remaster) — 4 ▶
Big in Japan — 7 ▶
Black Wings — 4 ▶
Blind Love — 2 ▶
Blue Valentine — 2 ▶
Books of Moses — 1 ▶
Bottom of the World — 14 ▶
Briar & The Rose — 1 ▶
Broken Bicycle — 4 ▶
Broken Bicycles — 1 ▶
Broken Bicycles (Album Version) — 1 ▶
Burma Shave — 1 ▶
Burma Shave (Live Freaks) — 1 ▶
Buzz Fledderjon — 1 ▶
Carnival — 3 ▶
Cemetery Polka — 8 ▶
Chicago — 7 ▶
Chickaboom — 1 ▶
Chocolate Jesus — 6 ▶
Christmas Card From Hooker In Minneapolis — 1 ▶
Christmas Card From A Hooker — 1 ▶
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Miniappolis — 2 ▶
Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis — 22 ▶
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis — 4 ▶
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minnesota — 2 ▶
Clap Hands — 17 ▶
Closing Time — 17 ▶
Cold Cold Ground — 11 ▶
Come on Up to the House — 8 ▶
Crazy About My Baby — 1 ▶
Danny Says — 1 ▶
Dave the Butcher — 1 ▶
Day After Tomorrow — 4 ▶
Dead and Lovely — 1 ▶
Diamonds and Gold — 1 ▶
Diamonds on My Windshield — 2 ▶
Diamonds On My Windshields — 1 ▶
Dirt in the Ground — 6 ▶
Dirt In The Ground — 2 ▶
Dirt in the Ground (Live in Milan 07/19/08) — 1 ▶
Don't Go Into That Barn — 5 ▶
Down Down Down — 1 ▶
Down, Down, Down — 3 ▶
Downtown Train — 131 ▶
Drunk on the Moon — 2 ▶
Earth Died Screaming — 4 ▶
Egg & Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) — 9 ▶
Eggs and Sausage — 1 ▶
Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson) — 1 ▶
Eggs and Sausages — 1 ▶
Emotional Weather Report — 4 ▶
Emotional Weather Report (Live) — 11 ▶
Everything Goes to Hell — 1 ▶
Eyeball Kid — 1 ▶
Face to the Highway — 1 ▶
Fannin Street — 1 ▶
Fish in the Jailhouse — 1 ▶
Flower's Grave — 2 ▶
Foreign Affair — 2 ▶
Frank's Wild Years — 8 ▶
Fumblin' With the Blues — 2 ▶
Georgia Lee — 2 ▶
Get Behind the Mule — 1 ▶
Get Behind the Mule (Live in Tulsa 25th June 2008) — 1 ▶
Get Behind The Mule (Spiritual) — 3 ▶
Get Lost — 4 ▶
Gin Soaked Boy — 3 ▶
God's Away on Business — 6 ▶
Goin' Out West — 14 ▶
Goin' Out West (Live In Tulsa - 06/25/08) — 1 ▶
Goin' Out West (Live in Tulsa, OK, 25/06/2008) — 1 ▶
Goin' Out West - Live in Tulsa, OK 06/25/08 — 1 ▶
Going Out West — 1 ▶
Grapefruit Moon — 23 ▶
Green Grass — 1 ▶
Gun Street Girl — 7 ▶
Had Me a Girl — 6 ▶
Hang Down Your Head — 5 ▶
Hang on St Christopher — 3 ▶
Hang on St. Christopher — 5 ▶
Hang On St. Christopher — 3 ▶
Heartattack and Vine — 11 ▶
Heigh Ho The Dwarfs Marching Song — 1 ▶
Hoist That Rag — 5 ▶
Hold On — 24 ▶
Home I'll Never Be — 2 ▶
Home I'll Never Leave — 1 ▶
Hope I Don't Fall in Love with You — 1 ▶
Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You — 2 ▶
House Where Nobody Lives — 9 ▶
How's It Gonna End — 2 ▶
I Beg Your Pardon — 1 ▶
I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) — 1 ▶
I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)) — 1 ▶
I Don't Wanna Grow Up — 13 ▶
I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You — 24 ▶
I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You — 7 ▶
I Hope You Don't Fall In Love With You — 1 ▶
I Never Talk to Strangers (feat. Bette Midler) — 1 ▶
I'll Shoot The Moon (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
I'll Take New York — 2 ▶
I'm Still Here — 4 ▶
Ice Cream Man — 7 ▶
Im Still Here — 1 ▶
In Between Love — 1 ▶
In The Ground (‘Glitter & Doom’ Version) — 1 ▶
In The Ground (‘Glitter & DoomÂ’ Version) — 1 ▶
In the Neighborhood — 5 ▶
In the Neighbourhood — 17 ▶
In The Neighbourhood — 8 ▶
Innocent When You Dream — 5 ▶
Intro - Putnam County - Record Plant 1975 — 2 ▶
Intro to Warm Beer and Cold Women — 1 ▶
Jersey Girl — 4 ▶
Jesus Gonna Be Here — 2 ▶
Jitterbug Boy — 1 ▶
Jockey Full of Bourbon — 30 ▶
Jockey Full Of Bourbon — 3 ▶
johnsburg illinois — 1 ▶
Johnsburg, Illinois — 7 ▶
Kentucky Avenue — 8 ▶
Knife Chase — 3 ▶
Last Leaf — 1 ▶
Lie to Me — 4 ▶
Lie To Me — 1 ▶
Little Trip to Heaven — 1 ▶
Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love) — 1 ▶
Lonely — 6 ▶
Long Way Home — 8 ▶
Long Way Home. — 34 ▶
Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again — 1 ▶
Lord I've Been Changed — 1 ▶
LowDown — 1 ▶
Lowdown. — 7 ▶
Lucinda / Ain't Going Down The Well — 1 ▶
Martha — 44 ▶
Midnight Lullaby — 3 ▶
Midnight Lullabye — 1 ▶
Midtown — 1 ▶
Misery Is the River of the World — 1 ▶
More Than Rain — 1 ▶
Muriel — 2 ▶
Never Let Go — 2 ▶
New Coat of Paint — 4 ▶
New Year's Eve — 4 ▶
New Years Eve — 2 ▶
New York Mood — 1 ▶
Nirvana — 3 ▶
Nobody — 1 ▶
November — 9 ▶
Ol '55 — 1 ▶
OL 55 — 1 ▶
Ol' '55 — 1 ▶
Ol' 55 — 18 ▶
Ol' 55 (CH) — 1 ▶
Ol'55 — 2 ▶
Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) — 3 ▶
On a Foggy Night (live) — 1 ▶
On the Nickel — 1 ▶
On The Nickel (Live in Austin, December 1978) — 1 ▶
On The Nickel (Live in Austin, Texas) — 1 ▶
On the Nickel (Live) — 5 ▶
On The Road — 2 ▶
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (live) — 1 ▶
PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG — 1 ▶
Pay Me — 1 ▶
Picture in a Frame — 38 ▶
Picture In A Frame (live) — 4 ▶
Pony — 1 ▶
Pretty Boy Floyd — 1 ▶
Puttin' on the Dog — 1 ▶
Rain Dogs — 29 ▶
Rainbirds — 5 ▶
Rains On Me — 1 ▶
Rains on Me — 8 ▶
Raised Right Men — 1 ▶
Red Shoes by the Drugstore — 5 ▶
Return of Jackie & Judy — 1 ▶
Return of Jackie and Judy — 1 ▶
Road To Peace — 1 ▶
Romeo Is Bleeding — 1 ▶
Rosie — 6 ▶
Ruby's Arms — 12 ▶
San Diego Serenade — 9 ▶
Satisfied — 2 ▶
Sea of Love — 6 ▶
Sea Of Loved — 2 ▶
Shake It — 1 ▶
Shiver Me Timbers — 8 ▶
Shore Leave — 26 ▶
Silent Night / Christmas Card From A Hooker (Live) — 1 ▶
Singapore — 17 ▶
Soldier's Things — 5 ▶
Somewhere — 11 ▶
Somewhere (From 'West Side Story') — 2 ▶
Somewhere (From West Side Story) — 1 ▶
Starving in the Belly of a Whale — 1 ▶
Starving In The Belly Of The Whale — 1 ▶
Step Right Up — 10 ▶
Story (Live in Columbus, OH, 06/28/08) — 1 ▶
Such A Scream — 1 ▶
Such a Scream (live in Milan) — 4 ▶
Such a Scream (Live in Milan, 18th July 2008) — 1 ▶
Such a Scream (Live in Milan, Italy 07/18/08) — 2 ▶
Such A Scream (Live in Milan, Italy 2008) — 2 ▶
Such A Scream (Live in Milan, Italy) — 1 ▶
Such a Scream (Live in Milan, Italy, 07/18/08) — 1 ▶
Such a Scream (Live in Milan, Itlay) — 1 ▶
Swordfishtrombone — 24 ▶
Take It With Me — 13 ▶
Take Me Home — 1 ▶
Talking at the Same Time — 10 ▶
Tango They're Sore — 1 ▶
Tango Till They're Sore — 8 ▶
Telephone Call From Istanbul — 16 ▶
Tell It To Me — 1 ▶
That Feel — 1 ▶
That's the Way — 1 ▶
The Black Rider — 1 ▶
The Ghost of Saturday Night — 1 ▶
The Heart of a Saturday Night — 1 ▶
The Heart of Saturday Night — 52 ▶
The Ocean — 1 ▶
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me — 5 ▶
The One That Got Away — 1 ▶
The Piano Has Been Drinking — 4 ▶
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) — 5 ▶
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) — 8 ▶
The Piano Has Been Drinking Not Me — 6 ▶
The Return of Jack & Judy — 1 ▶
The Return of Jackie and Judy — 1 ▶
The Tango — 10 ▶
The Wire Theme — 1 ▶
This Piano Has Been Drinking — 1 ▶
Time — 17 ▶
Tom Traubert's Blues — 2 ▶
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) — 3 ▶
Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda) — 4 ▶
Tom Trauberts Blues — 1 ▶
Tootie Ma Was A Big Fine Thing (feat. Preservation Hall Jazz Band) — 1 ▶
Town With No Cheer — 2 ▶
Train Song — 10 ▶
Trouble Braids — 2 ▶
Trouble's Braids — 14 ▶
Two Sisters — 1 ▶
Underground — 6 ▶
Union Square — 2 ▶
Walk Away — 3 ▶
Walking Spanish — 16 ▶
Warm Beer and Cold Women — 2 ▶
Way Down in a Hole — 1 ▶
Way Down in the Hole — 30 ▶
Way Down In The Hole — 4 ▶
What's He Building — 4 ▶
What's He Building in There? — 2 ▶
What's He Building? — 32 ▶
When You Ain't Got Nobody — 1 ▶
When You Ain’t Got Nobody — 1 ▶
Whistle Down the Wind — 1 ▶
Whistle Down the Wind (For Tom Jans) — 1 ▶
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard — 1 ▶
Whistling past the graveyard — 2 ▶
Who Are You — 11 ▶
Who Are You (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Who Are You This Time — 1 ▶
Wrong Side of the Road — 3 ▶
Yesterday Is Here — 2 ▶
You Can Never Hold Back Spring — 13 ▶
You Can't Unring a Bell — 1 ▶