Album · Aerosmith
Pump by Aerosmith
Pump is an album by Aerosmith, released in 1989. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 70 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “What It Takes”, on 67 lists with a best position of #107.
Pump, Aerosmith's tenth album, came out on Geffen on September 12, 1989, and it's the sound of the Boston bad boys fully back from the dead and swaggering. Bruce Fairbairn produced it at Little Mountain Sound Studios with engineers Mike Fraser and Ken Lomas, the second of three straight albums they made together, and the classic five, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer, sound hungrier than they had in years.
It's a blues-greased hard rock record with pop hooks sharp enough for the Hot 100, where "Love in an Elevator", "Janie's Got a Gun", "What It Takes" and "The Other Side" all landed in the Top 40. "Love in an Elevator" became their first chart-topper on Mainstream Rock, and "Janie's Got a Gun" won the band its first Grammy. It has sold seven million copies in the US, and two making-of documentaries followed in 1990.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Pump on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What It Takes | 67 | #107 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 2 | F.I.N.E. | 2 | #401 | – | 1990–2002 | |
| 3 | Monkey on My Back | 1 | #562 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.