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alt‐J

alt‐J is a group from the UK, active since 2007.

Group GB since 2007 indie rock indie pop alternative rock
TOTAL PLAYS
518
SONGS PLAYED
41
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2020-12-22 06:32 · 6 Music — "Dissolve Me"
LAST PLAYED
1 month ago · 6 Music — "Tessellate (BBC Introducing Radio 1/6 Music Session, 18 Jul 2011)"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2020 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 400 77%
Radio 1 105 20%
Radio 2 13 3%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 05:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 U&ME 108 2025-09-09
2 Hard Drive Gold 85 2025-10-13
3 The Actor 56 2025-03-03
4 Breezeblocks 39 2026-07-22
5 Left Hand Free 36 2026-07-21
6 Tessellate 32 2025-11-05
7 Matilda 22 2025-05-01
8 Hunger of the Pine 18 2025-08-14
9 Dissolve Me 17 2026-07-20
10 Every Other Freckle 14 2026-07-30
11 Something Good 14 2025-12-18
12 Fitzpleasure 10 2025-09-25
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-03 17:13 Tessellate (BBC Introducing Radio 1/6 Music Session, 18 Jul 2011) 6 Music
2026-07-30 04:44 Every Other Freckle 6 Music
2026-07-22 16:16 Breezeblocks 6 Music
2026-07-21 23:05 Left Hand Free 6 Music
2026-07-20 04:00 Dissolve Me 6 Music
2026-05-15 21:05 Left Hand Free 6 Music
2026-04-19 18:54 Warm Foothills Radio 1
2026-04-01 02:44 Left Hand Free Radio 1
2026-01-15 20:53 Left Hand Free Radio 2
2026-01-15 20:52 Left Hand Free Radio 2
2026-01-02 02:24 Left Hand Free Radio 1
2025-12-23 19:52 Breezeblocks 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

41 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
3WW — 8 ▶
Bane — 1 ▶
Bane (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022) — 1 ▶
Bloodflood — 1 ▶
Breezeblocks — 39 ▶
Breezeblocks (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022) — 2 ▶
Breezeblocks (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Deadcrush — 9 ▶
Dissolve Me — 17 ▶
Every Other Freckle — 14 ▶
Everything Goes My Way (6 Music Session, 16 Feb 2022) — 4 ▶
Fitzpleasure — 10 ▶
Get Better — 5 ▶
Happier When You're Gone — 1 ▶
Hard Drive Gold — 85 ▶
Hard Drive Gold (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022) — 1 ▶
Hard Drive Gold (Maya Jane Coles Remix) — 2 ▶
Hunger of the Pine — 18 ▶
In Cold Blood — 2 ▶
Last Year — 2 ▶
Left Hand Free — 36 ▶
Left Hand Free (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Lovely Day — 1 ▶
Matilda — 22 ▶
Ms — 3 ▶
Philadelphia (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022) — 1 ▶
Powders — 1 ▶
Something Good — 14 ▶
Something Good (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2017) — 1 ▶
Something Good (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022) — 1 ▶
Taro (6 Music Live at Maida Vale 2017) — 2 ▶
Tessellate — 32 ▶
Tessellate (BBC Introducing Radio 1/6 Music Session, 18 Jul 2011) — 1 ▶
Tessellate (Glastonbury 2017) — 1 ▶
The Actor — 56 ▶
The Actor (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022) — 1 ▶
U&ME — 108 ▶
U&ME (6 Music Session, 16 Feb 2022) — 3 ▶
U&ME (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022) — 3 ▶
Walk A Mile — 1 ▶
Warm Foothills — 6 ▶