UB40 — Where to Listen on the Radio

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Origin: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Active since: 1978

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About UB40

UB40 is a reggae, dub and pop artist from Birmingham, United Kingdom, active since 1978. ArtisFind has detected 11 plays of UB40 on 10 radio stations in France, the United Kingdom and Romania, most recently on Radio Vag 9d ago. The song heard most often on air is “Can”.

UB40 are an English reggae band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK singles chart and has also achieved considerable international success. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times and were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group in 1984. UB40 have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. The ethnic make-up of the band's original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.

Their hit singles include their debut track "Food for Thought" and two Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, "Red Red Wine" and "(I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You". Both songs also topped the UK singles chart, as did the band's version of "I Got You Babe", recorded with Chrissie Hynde. The band's two most successful albums, Labour of Love (1983) and Promises and Lies (1993), both reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. UB40 and the English ska band Madness share the record for the most weeks spent by a group on the UK singles chart during the 1980s, with 214 weeks each.

The band's line-up remained stable for nearly 29 years, from March 1979 until January 2008, when frontman Ali Campbell left the band, followed shortly thereafter by keyboardist Mickey Virtue. Another member, Astro, continued with the band until November 2013, when he departed to team up with Campbell and Virtue to form their own band, called "UB40 featuring Ali…

UB40 on the radio in numbers

11
Plays detected: 10
Stations: 7
Countries: Jun 2026
First detected

Stations that played UB40

Radio Vag
France
Last played: 9d ago
“Can”
Affinity Radio
United Kingdom
Last played: 10d ago
“Kingston Town”
FieraMIX - La Americana
Dominican Republic
Last played: 11d ago
“Red red Wine”
Radio Condor
Romania
Last played: 11d ago
“Can”
BR FM
United Kingdom
Last played: 39d ago
“Sing Our Own Song”
Radio Focus Fantastic
Netherlands
Last played: 42d ago
“Rat In Mi Kitchen”
P7 Klem
Norway
Last played: 44d ago
“(I Can”
181.fm - The Mix
United States
Last played: 90d ago
“(I Can`t Help) Falling in Love with You [Single Version]”
Radio Click Romania
Romania
Last played: 94d ago
“Girl I wanna make you sweat”
Hit Radio Classics
France
Last played: 155d ago
“The Way You Do the Things You Do”