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William Orbit

William Orbit is a person from the UK, active since 1956.

Person GB since 1956 electronic house british
TOTAL PLAYS
227
SONGS PLAYED
35
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2006-08-13 09:01 · Radio 1 — "Barber's Adagio For Strings"
LAST PLAYED
5 days ago · 6 Music — "Water From a Vine Leaf"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2006 — 2026
30 23 15 8 0
'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 116 51%
Radio 2 55 24%
Radio 1 53 23%
1Xtra 3 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 04:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Barber's Adagio For Strings 99 2025-04-20
2 Water From a Vine Leaf 49 2026-05-16
3 Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix) 7 2023-04-14
4 Bank of Wildflowers (feat. Georgia) 7 2022-09-20
5 Optical Illusions 7 2010-07-06
6 Starbeam 6 2022-01-14
7 Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) 5 2026-04-12
8 Colours Colliding (feat. Polly Scattergood) 4 2022-06-20
9 Nimrod 4 2010-09-06
10 Water From A Vine Leaf 4 2010-03-28
11 electron.love 3 2025-02-15
12 A cubic lightyear made of solid lead 3 2025-02-15
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-16 06:13 Water From a Vine Leaf 6 Music
2026-04-12 00:04 Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) Radio 2
2025-09-19 02:33 Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) Radio 2
2025-09-17 04:09 Water From a Vine Leaf 6 Music
2025-08-17 03:54 Water From a Vine Leaf 6 Music
2025-08-09 23:32 Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) Radio 2
2025-07-20 07:00 Water From a Vine Leaf 6 Music
2025-05-20 07:17 Water From a Vine Leaf 6 Music
2025-05-15 02:49 Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) Radio 2
2025-04-28 12:34 Water From a Vine Leaf 6 Music
2025-04-20 00:53 Barber's Adagio For Strings 6 Music
2025-04-13 00:49 Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

35 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A cubic lightyear made of solid lead — 3 ▶
Adagio for Strings — 2 ▶
Bank of Wildflowers (feat. Georgia) — 7 ▶
Bank of Wildflowers (WITH VN) (feat. Georgia) — 1 ▶
Barber's Adagio For Strings — 99 ▶
Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) — 5 ▶
Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix) — 7 ▶
Barber's Adagio For Strings (PFT) — 1 ▶
Barber's Adagio for Strings (Tiesto Mix) — 1 ▶
Barber's Adaigo For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix) — 1 ▶
Barber's Adargio for Strings — 1 ▶
Barbers Adagio For Strings — 1 ▶
Best Track Mash-Up — 2 ▶
Billy O's Venice Va-Va-Voom Mix — 1 ▶
Colours Colliding (feat. Polly Scattergood) — 4 ▶
El Ninjo — 1 ▶
electron.love — 3 ▶
Into The Paradise — 1 ▶
Nimrod — 4 ▶
Ogive Number 1 — 2 ▶
Optical Illusions — 7 ▶
Passing through as if a loaf of bread — 3 ▶
Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte (Maurice Ravel) — 1 ▶
Peer Gynt — 1 ▶
Piece In The Old Style I — 1 ▶
Purdy (Greenmoney Remix) — 1 ▶
Radioharp — 1 ▶
Shine On Me (The Emergen-C Dub) — 1 ▶
Starbeam — 6 ▶
Starbeam (ABGT462) — 1 ▶
The Story Of Light — 1 ▶
Time To Get Wize — 1 ▶
Water From a Vine Leaf — 49 ▶
Water From A Vine Leaf — 4 ▶
Wordsworth — 2 ▶