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PPL count up the plays in 2015

By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 3 June 2016

Your good mates over at the PPLs had their Annual General Meeting yesterday and, to celebrate, they dug deep into all the airplay and public performance data they’ve been gathering on their desks in the last year to work out the most play artists and tracks of 2015 in this most United Kingdom.

All Adele you reckon? Don’t be a fool, she wasn’t doing much for most of 2015. No, it’s all about the boy Sheeran and that bloody Mark Ronson. What a time to be alive!

Most played artists…
1. Ed Sheeran
2. Taylor Swift
3. Olly Murs
4. Take That
5. Ellie Goulding
6. Sam Smith
7. Jess Glynne
8. Years & Years
9. Mark Ronson
10. Maroon 5
11. Coldplay
12. Calvin Harris
13. James Bay
14. George Ezra
15. Madonna
16. Rihanna
17. Queen
18. Michael Jackson
19. Katy Perry
20. Adele

Most played tracks…
1. Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
2. Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
3. James Bay – Hold Back The River
4. Years & Years – King
5. Jess Glynne – Hold My Hand
6. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
7. Maroon 5 – Sugar
8. Jason Derulo – Want To Want Me
9. Demi Lovato and Olly Murs – Up
10. Taylor Swift – Style
11. Sam Smith – Like I Can
12. Take That – These Days
13. OMI – Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
14. Jess Glynne – Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself
15. Hozier – Take Me To Church
16. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance
17. Ed Sheeran – Photograph
18. Little Mix – Black Magic
19. George Ezra – Blame It on Me
20. Taylor Swift – Blank Space