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U2

U2 is a group from Ireland, active since 1976.

Group IE since 1976 alternative rock rock post-punk
TOTAL PLAYS
6,117
SONGS PLAYED
296
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-14 15:49 · 6 Music — "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · Radio 2 — "Desire"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
800 600 400 200 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 2 4,057 66%
6 Music 1,500 25%
Radio 1 551 9%
1Xtra 9 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 01:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Beautiful Day 484 2026-08-18
2 Get On Your Boots 328 2017-01-07
3 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 299 2026-08-20
4 Desire 229 2026-08-24
5 Vertigo 224 2026-02-17
6 Sweetest Thing 205 2026-08-09
7 Angel of Harlem 183 2026-08-23
8 One 168 2026-07-27
9 Pride (in the Name of Love) 158 2026-07-12
10 I Will Follow 147 2025-10-24
11 Where the Streets Have No Name 130 2026-07-18
12 Mysterious Ways 130 2025-09-09
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-24 08:04 Desire Radio 2
2026-08-23 06:56 Angel of Harlem Radio 2
2026-08-20 00:41 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Radio 2
2026-08-19 10:50 With or Without You Radio 2
2026-08-18 22:33 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me 6 Music
2026-08-18 03:49 Beautiful Day Radio 2
2026-08-16 04:33 With or Without You Radio 2
2026-08-15 20:32 Discothèque Radio 2
2026-08-15 07:51 Even Better Than the Real Thing Radio 2
2026-08-14 12:31 Street of Dreams Radio 2
2026-08-14 06:16 Street of Dreams Radio 2
2026-08-14 00:07 Street of Dreams Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

296 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
"40" — 1 ▶
'I Will Follow' and 'Where The Streets Have No Name' — 1 ▶
11 O'Clock Tick Tock — 4 ▶
11 O'Cock Tick Tock — 1 ▶
13 (There Is a Light) — 2 ▶
40 — 2 ▶
A Day Without Me — 23 ▶
A Day Without Me (Hammersmith Odeon, 1982) — 2 ▶
A Day Without Me - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 — 3 ▶
A Day Without Me - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 1 ▶
A Sort of Homecoming — 3 ▶
A Sort Of Homecoming — 1 ▶
Acrobat — 1 ▶
Alex Descends Into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/Korova 1 — 1 ▶
All Because Of You — 3 ▶
All I Want Is You — 39 ▶
All I Want Is You (Album Version) — 1 ▶
All I Want Is You - Songs Of Surrender — 1 ▶
An Cat Dubh — 42 ▶
An Cat Dubh (BBC session) — 3 ▶
An Cat Dubh (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 Jun 1982) — 1 ▶
An Cat Dubh (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 June 1982) — 2 ▶
An Cat Dubh (Radio 1 Session, 18 Sep 1980) — 1 ▶
An Cat Dubh - BBC Session 18/09/1980 — 2 ▶
An Cat Dubh - BBC Session 1980 — 1 ▶
An Cat Dubh - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 — 1 ▶
An Cat Dubh - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 1 ▶
Angel of Harlem — 183 ▶
Angel Of Harlem — 88 ▶
Angel Of Harlem - Rds Dublin 1994 — 2 ▶
Aotd: Joshua Tree - Running To Stand Still — 1 ▶
Aotd: Joshua Tree - With Or Without You — 1 ▶
Atomic City — 79 ▶
Atomic City VERNON INSTRUMENTAL — 4 ▶
Baby Please Come Home (KT Tunstall Xmas Cover) — 1 ▶
Bad — 23 ▶
Bad (Live) — 2 ▶
Beat On The Brat — 1 ▶
Beautiful Day — 484 ▶
Beautiful Day (Live Lounge) — 4 ▶
Beautiful Day (Perfecto Mix) — 1 ▶
Beautiful Day - BBC Session 23/10/2000 — 2 ▶
Beautiful Day - Songs Of Surrender — 2 ▶
Blow Your House Down — 1 ▶
Breathe — 7 ▶
Bullet the Blue Sky — 8 ▶
Bullet The Blue Sky 26/12/89 — 1 ▶
California (There Is No End to Love) — 1 ▶
Cedarwood Road — 4 ▶
Cedarwood Road (Live in Paris, 2016) — 1 ▶
Cedarwood Road - Live At Maida Vale — 1 ▶
Cedarwood Road- Live At Maida Vale — 1 ▶
Celebration (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 June 1982) — 2 ▶
Celebration - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 — 1 ▶
Celebration - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 1 ▶
Celebration 1982 — 2 ▶
Christmas — 1 ▶
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) — 115 ▶
City of Blinding Lights — 10 ▶
City Of Blinding Lights — 79 ▶
Country Mile — 57 ▶
Crazy (Dirty South Mix) — 1 ▶
Dancing Barefoot — 1 ▶
Desire — 229 ▶
Desire - Songs Of Surrender — 2 ▶
Discotheque — 14 ▶
Discothèque — 17 ▶
Electrical Storm — 25 ▶
Electrical Storm (William Orbit Mix / Radio Edit ) — 2 ▶
Electro (Radio 1 Session, 18 Sep 1980) — 1 ▶
Electro - BBC Session 18/09/1980 — 1 ▶
Electro - BBC Session 1980 — 1 ▶
Elevation — 73 ▶
Elevation (Glastonbury 2011) — 1 ▶
Elevation (live) — 1 ▶
Even Better Than the Real Thing — 54 ▶
Even Better Than The Real Thing — 49 ▶
Even Better Than the Real Thing (Apollo 440 Stealth Sonic remix) — 1 ▶
Even Better Than The Real Thing (Perfecto Edit) — 1 ▶
Even Better Than the Real Thing (Perfecto mix) — 32 ▶
Even Better Than the Real Thing (Perfecto remix) — 13 ▶
Even Better Than The Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix) — 10 ▶
Even Better Than The Real Thing - Rds Dublin 1994 — 1 ▶
Everlasting Love — 1 ▶
Every Breaking Wave — 43 ▶
Every Breaking Wave (Piano Room Version) — 1 ▶
Every Breaking Wave (Radio 2 Session, 15 Oct 2014) — 4 ▶
Every Breaking Wave - Live At Maida Vale — 3 ▶
Every Breaking Wave- Live At Maida Vale — 1 ▶
Fire — 1 ▶
Fly - Rds Showground Dublin 1983 — 2 ▶
Get On Your Boots — 328 ▶
Get On Your Boots (live at BH) — 1 ▶
Get On Your Boots (Live Lounge) — 2 ▶
Get On Your Boots (Live) — 1 ▶
Get On Yout Boots — 1 ▶
Get Out Of Your Own Way — 86 ▶
Get Your Boots On (Justice Remix) — 1 ▶
Gloria — 46 ▶
Gloria (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 Jun 1982) — 1 ▶
Gloria (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 June 1982) — 2 ▶
Gloria - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 — 2 ▶
Gloria - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 1 ▶
Gloria 1982 — 3 ▶
Gloria. — 13 ▶
God Part II (Hard Metal Dance Mix) — 1 ▶
Grace — 3 ▶
Happiness Is a Warm Gun — 1 ▶
Hawkmoon 269 — 1 ▶
Helter Skelter — 2 ▶
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me — 18 ▶
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me — 45 ▶
Htd - Wed 11/10/06 — 1 ▶
I Believe In Father Christmas — 6 ▶
I Fall Down 1982 — 1 ▶
I Fall Down — 5 ▶
I Fall Down - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 2 ▶
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For — 299 ▶
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Rattle & Hum) — 1 ▶
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - VK NOEL VERSION — 1 ▶
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 26/12/89 — 1 ▶
I Threw A Brick Through A Window 1982 — 1 ▶
I Threw a Brick Through a Window — 1 ▶
I Threw A Brick Through A Window (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 June 1982) — 2 ▶
I Threw A brick Through A Window - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 1 ▶
I Will Follow — 147 ▶
I Will Follow (BBC session) — 4 ▶
I Will Follow (From Glastonbury) — 2 ▶
I Will Follow (Live From Paris) — 1 ▶
I Will Follow (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 June 1982) — 2 ▶
I Will Follow (Radio 1 Session, 18 Sep 1980) — 1 ▶
I Will Follow - BBC Session 18/09/1980 — 1 ▶
I Will Follow - BBC Session 1980 — 1 ▶
I Will Follow - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 — 3 ▶
I Will Follow - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 5 ▶
I Will Follow - Songs Of Surrender — 2 ▶
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight — 55 ▶
In A Life — 38 ▶
In God's Country — 30 ▶
Into The Heart (Radio 1 Session, 18 Sep 1980) — 1 ▶
Into The Heart - BBC Session 18/09/1980 — 1 ▶
Into The Heart - BBC Session 1980 — 1 ▶
Invisible — 78 ▶
Iris (Hold Me Close) — 3 ▶
Jerusalem (Glastonbury, 2011) — 1 ▶
Jerusalem/Where The Streets Have No Name (Live At Glastonbury 2011) — 1 ▶
Last Night on Earth — 1 ▶
Lemon — 7 ▶
Lemon (Mick Park & Danny Stubbs Mix) — 1 ▶
Lemon (Perfecto mix) — 5 ▶
Lemon (Perfecto Remix) — 2 ▶
Lemon (The Perfecto Mix / Remastered 2021) — 1 ▶
Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way — 2 ▶
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way (Beck Remix) — 75 ▶
Love Is Blindness — 1 ▶
Luckiest Man In The World — 23 ▶
Magnificent — 128 ▶
Magnificent (Edit) — 1 ▶
Magnificent (Fred Falke Remix) — 1 ▶
Magnificent (Pete Tong remix) — 1 ▶
Miracle Drug — 3 ▶
Mofo — 3 ▶
Moment of Surrender — 2 ▶
Moment Of Surrender — 1 ▶
Mysterious Ways — 130 ▶
Mysterious Ways (Solar Plexus Extended Club Mix) — 1 ▶
Mysterious Ways - Rds Dublin 1994 — 2 ▶
New Year's Day — 94 ▶
New Year's Day (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 Jun 1982) — 1 ▶
New Year's Day (Top Of The Pops Performance) — 1 ▶
New Year's Day - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 — 2 ▶
New Year's Day - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 2 ▶
New Year's Day 1982 — 3 ▶
New Years Day 26/12/89 — 1 ▶
Night & Day (Steel Strings Mix) — 1 ▶
No Line On The Horizon — 7 ▶
Numb — 1 ▶
Numb - Rds Dublin 1994 — 1 ▶
October — 1 ▶
October (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 Jun 1982) — 1 ▶
October - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 — 2 ▶
October - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 2 ▶
October 1982 — 3 ▶
One — 168 ▶
One - Rds Dublin 1994 — 3 ▶
One Tree Hill — 16 ▶
One Tree Hill (live in New Zealand from the U2360° Tour) — 1 ▶
Ordinary Love — 17 ▶
Original Of The Species — 1 ▶
Out of Control — 10 ▶
Out Of Control — 2 ▶
Please — 1 ▶
Pride (in the Name of Love) — 158 ▶
Pride (In The Name Of Love) — 83 ▶
Pride (In The Name Of Love) - Songs Of Surrender — 2 ▶
Pride - Rds Dublin 1994 — 2 ▶
Red Flag Day — 5 ▶
Red Hill Mining Town — 3 ▶
Red Hill Mining Town (2017 Mix) — 1 ▶
Red Hill Mining Town (2017 Record Store Day Mix) — 1 ▶
Red Hill Mining Town (2017 RSD Mix) — 1 ▶
Rejoice — 1 ▶
Running to Stand Still — 2 ▶
Seconds — 4 ▶
She's A Mystery To Me - BBC Session 23/10/2000 — 1 ▶
Short Montage 2 — 2 ▶
Silver and Gold — 1 ▶
Silver And Gold — 2 ▶
So Cruel — 2 ▶
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own — 46 ▶
Song for Someone — 9 ▶
Song For Someone - Live At Maida vale — 4 ▶
Song For Someone- Live At Maida vale — 1 ▶
Song Of The Future — 72 ▶
Stand Up Comedy — 6 ▶
Staring at the Sun — 8 ▶
Staring At The Sun — 33 ▶
Stay (Faraway, So Close!) — 6 ▶
Stay (Faraway, So Close) — 1 ▶
Stories For Boys — 1 ▶
Street of Dreams — 76 ▶
Stuck In A Moment (Remastered) — 1 ▶
Stuck In A Moment - Live At Maida vale — 1 ▶
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of — 61 ▶
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of — 46 ▶
Summer of Love — 6 ▶
Sunday Bloody Sunday — 15 ▶
Sunday Bloody Sunday (Remastered) — 1 ▶
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 4 ▶
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1982 — 2 ▶
Surrender — 43 ▶
Surrender (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Surrender (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 June 1982) — 2 ▶
Surrender - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 1 ▶
Surrender. — 4 ▶
Sweetest Thing — 205 ▶
The Blackout — 1 ▶
The Electric Co - Hammersmith Palais 1982 — 2 ▶
The Electric Co. — 2 ▶
The Electric Co. (Radio 1 In Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 12 Jun 1982) — 1 ▶
The Fly — 109 ▶
The Fly - Songs Of Surrender — 1 ▶
The Hands That Built America — 20 ▶
The Little Things That Give You Away — 2 ▶
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) — 85 ▶
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)- Live At Maida Vale — 1 ▶
The Miracle Of Joey Ramone — 1 ▶
The Showman (Little More Better) — 2 ▶
The Sweetest Thing (1987) — 1 ▶
The Troubles — 3 ▶
The Unforgettable Fire — 83 ▶
Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World — 1 ▶
Trying To Throw My Arms Around The World - Rds Dublin 1994 — 1 ▶
Two Hearts Beat As One — 41 ▶
Two Hearts Beat As One (Long Mix By Kevorkian) — 1 ▶
U2 + Kinky Boots — 2 ▶
U2 Montage 1 - Harlem/Still Haven't Found /Unforgetable Fire — 1 ▶
Ultra Violet — 1 ▶
Ultraviolet (Light My Way) — 4 ▶
Unchained Melody — 1 ▶
Unchained Melody - Rds Dublin 1994 — 1 ▶
Unknown Caller — 3 ▶
Until the End of the World — 4 ▶
Until The End Of The World — 7 ▶
Untill The End Of The World / New Years Day - Rds Dublin 1994 — 1 ▶
Vertigo — 224 ▶
Vertigo (Live) — 1 ▶
Volcano — 2 ▶
Wake Up Dead Man (James Lavelle Remix) [Unreleased] - Headphones Def Mix — 1 ▶
Walk On — 10 ▶
When Love Comes to Town — 1 ▶
When Love Comes To Town — 3 ▶
When Love Comes To Town - Rds Dublin 1994 — 1 ▶
Where the Streets Have No Name — 130 ▶
Where The Streets Have No Name — 52 ▶
Where The Streets Have No Name (Glastonbury 2011) — 1 ▶
Where The Streets Have No Name (short intro) — 1 ▶
White As Snow — 2 ▶
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses — 52 ▶
Wild Honey — 1 ▶
Window In The Skies — 111 ▶
Window In The Skies/Too Little, Too Late — 1 ▶
Window In The Sky — 3 ▶
Wire — 1 ▶
With or Without You — 115 ▶
With Or Without You — 44 ▶
With Or Without You (Joris Voorn Remix) — 1 ▶
With Or Without You (reimagined) — 2 ▶
With Or Without You - Rds Dublin 1994 — 2 ▶
With Or Without You - Songs Of Surrender — 1 ▶
You're the Best Thing About Me — 77 ▶
You're the Best Thing About Me (Kygo remix) — 1 ▶
Your Song Saved My Life — 60 ▶
Zoo Station — 8 ▶
Zoo Station - Rds Dublin 1994 — 1 ▶
Zooropa — 2 ▶