OnRadioNow BBC ARCHIVE · SINCE 2006

Years / 2014

◦ THE YEAR IN MUSIC

2014

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399,944 plays logged across the four stations in 2014.

Radio 1 116,893 plays in 2014

TOP SONGS

1

Happy Pharrell Williams

×354

2

Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne) Clean Bandit

×347

3

Sing Ed Sheeran

×339

4

Nobody to Love Sigma

×317

5

Walking With Elephants Ten Walls

×294

6

I Wanna Feel Secondcity

×291

7

Hideaway Kiesza

×291

8

My Love (feat. Jess Glynne) Route 94

×283

9

Money on My Mind Sam Smith

×283

10

Summer Calvin Harris

×267

TOP ARTISTS

01

951

02

943

03

Pharrell Williams

795

04

772

05

771

06

750

07

728

08

709

Radio 2 78,751 plays in 2014

TOP SONGS

1

Happy Pharrell Williams

×177

2

A Sky Full of Stars Coldplay

×128

3

Believe In Me The Pierces

×121

4

These Days Take That

×107

5

Uptight Downtown La Roux

×106

6

Sing Ed Sheeran

×104

7

You or No One Chrissie Hynde

×100

8

Liquid Spirit Gregory Porter

×98

9

Blame It on Me George Ezra

×97

10

D.I.Y. Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

×96

TOP ARTISTS

01

477

02

470

03

419

04

The Rolling Stones

386

05

362

06

Michael Jackson

357

07

346

08

342

1Xtra 117,254 plays in 2014

TOP SONGS

1

I Wanna Feel Secondcity

×368

2

I Got U (feat. Jax Jones) Duke Dumont

×365

3

Nobody to Love Sigma

×360

4

Touch Shift K3Y

×348

5

Hideaway Kiesza

×339

6

Fancy (feat. Charli XCX) Iggy Azalea

×312

7

Down On My Luck Vic Mensa

×285

8

Happy Pharrell Williams

×285

9

Sing Ed Sheeran

×281

10

Drunk in Love (feat. JAY Z) Beyoncé

×279

TOP ARTISTS

01

975

02

855

03

Pharrell Williams

836

04

815

05

805

06

792

07

777

08

733

6 Music 87,046 plays in 2014

TOP SONGS

1

Digital Witness St. Vincent

×116

2

My Silver Lining First Aid Kit

×97

3

Can't Do Without You Caribou

×93

4

×85

5

Blue Eyed Hexe Pixies

×85

6

Groove It Out LoneLady

×84

7

Wanderlust Wild Beasts

×83

8

Skeleton Dance Teleman

×82

9

Holy City Joan as Police Woman

×82

10

S.O.S. in Bel Air Phoenix

×81

TOP ARTISTS

01

392

02

363

03

323

04

319

05

308

06

288

07

285

08

270