OnRadioNow BBC ARCHIVE · SINCE 2006

Years / 2022

◦ THE YEAR IN MUSIC

2022

← 2021 2023 →

429,099 plays logged across the four stations in 2022.

Radio 1 133,048 plays in 2022

TOP SONGS

1

Afraid To Feel LF System

×434

2

Make Me Feel Good (feat. Jazzy) Belters Only

×352

3

Don't Forget My Love (feat. Miguel) Diplo

×334

4

My Love Florence + the Machine

×323

5

B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal

×315

6

Oh My God Adele

×314

7

Anyone for You George Ezra

×314

8

About Damn Time Lizzo

×306

9

As It Was Harry Styles

×300

10

Where Did You Go? (feat. MNEK) Jax Jones

×287

TOP ARTISTS

01

1030

02

909

03

816

04

787

05

776

06

756

07

730

08

689

Radio 2 75,142 plays in 2022

TOP SONGS

1

As It Was Harry Styles

×176

2

SPACE MAN Sam Ryder

×149

3

About Damn Time Lizzo

×145

4

Green Green Grass George Ezra

×137

5

Never Gonna Not Dance Again P!nk

×126

6

All These Nights Tom Grennan

×119

7

Feel It Comin Lady Blackbird

×118

8

Late Night Talking Harry Styles

×108

9

How 2 Dance Kaiser Chiefs

×104

10

Bam Bam (feat. Ed Sheeran) Camila Cabello

×100

TOP ARTISTS

01

478

02

404

03

385

04

344

05

341

06

334

07

316

08

315

1Xtra 112,547 plays in 2022

TOP SONGS

1

×352

2

First Class Jack Harlow

×333

3

Last Last Burna Boy

×332

4

×308

5

×282

6

WAIT FOR U (feat. Drake & Tems) Future

×281

7

Blessing Me Mura Masa, Pa Salieu & Skillbeng

×254

8

Big Energy (Remix) (feat. DJ Khaled) Latto & Mariah Carey

×251

9

BREAK MY SOUL Beyoncé

×241

10

Finesse Pheelz & Buju TYE

×240

TOP ARTISTS

01

1182

02

1084

03

981

04

821

05

809

06

763

07

693

08

646

6 Music 108,362 plays in 2022

TOP SONGS

1

More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract) Kae Tempest

×94

2

Fatso Warmduscher

×92

3

Jackie Down The Line Fontaines D.C.

×87

4

Kissing Lessons Lucy Dacus

×85

5

An Stevel Nowydh Gwenno

×81

6

One and Only Gabriels

×78

7

B-Side (feat. Leon Bridges) Khruangbin

×77

8

Angelica Wet Leg

×76

9

The Smoke The Smile

×76

10

All That You Want Ibibio Sound Machine

×76

TOP ARTISTS

01

409

02

402

03

362

04

346

05

341

06

300

07

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

297

08

291