OnRadioNow BBC ARCHIVE · SINCE 2006

Years / 2021

◦ THE YEAR IN MUSIC

2021

← 2020 2022 →

432,290 plays logged across the four stations in 2021.

Radio 1 132,636 plays in 2021

TOP SONGS

1

Tell Me Something Good Ewan McVicar

×418

2

Get Out My Head Shane Codd

×340

3

Marea (We've Lost Dancing) (feat. Blessed Madonna) Fred again..

×317

4

Talk About DJ Craig Gorman & Rain Radio

×311

5

HEAT Paul Woolford & Amber Mark

×306

6

Kiss Me More (feat. SZA) Doja Cat

×298

7

Little Bit of Love Tom Grennan

×293

8

Bad Habits Ed Sheeran

×282

9

good 4 u Olivia Rodrigo

×280

10

MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name) Lil Nas X

×279

TOP ARTISTS

01

1015

02

957

03

930

04

900

05

773

06

730

07

720

08

718

Radio 2 92,370 plays in 2021

TOP SONGS

1

Treat People With Kindness Harry Styles

×191

2

All You Ever Wanted Rag’n’Bone Man

×177

3

Bad Habits Ed Sheeran

×149

4

Leave The Door Open Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

×140

5

Remember Where You Are Jessie Ware

×138

6

Cold Heart Elton John & Dua Lipa

×136

7

Take My Breath The Weeknd

×135

8

Let Them Know Mabel

×132

9

Higher Power Coldplay

×126

10

Embers James Newman

×125

TOP ARTISTS

01

614

02

578

03

484

04

465

05

428

06

418

07

378

08

377

1Xtra 102,509 plays in 2021

TOP SONGS

1

Essence (feat. Tems) Wizkid

×377

2

Need to Know Doja Cat

×338

3

Slow Motion Amaria BB

×301

4

Best Friend (feat. Doja Cat) Saweetie

×285

5

Sunshine (The Light) (feat. Amorphous) Fat Joe & DJ Khaled

×278

6

Evil Eye Bellah

×275

7

×268

8

×260

9

Ski (feat. Young Thug & Gunna) Young Stoner Life

×256

10

Kilometre Burna Boy

×255

TOP ARTISTS

01

852

02

791

03

734

04

723

05

694

06

659

07

598

08

564

6 Music 104,775 plays in 2021

TOP SONGS

1

Saku (feat. Clara La San) Bicep

×100

2

La Perla Sofia Kourtesis

×99

3

Woman (feat. Cleo Sol) Little Simz

×93

4

Chaise Longue Wet Leg

×93

5

Sunblind Fleet Foxes

×92

6

Caroline Arlo Parks

×91

7

Queen Of The Underground Goat

×91

8

I Do This All the Time Self Esteem

×90

9

Love and Hate in a Different Time Gabriels

×90

10

Rotting Hills Avalon Emerson

×89

TOP ARTISTS

01

464

02

392

03

386

04

372

05

309

06

269

07

249

08

241