Album · Damien Rice
O by Damien Rice
O is an album by Damien Rice, released in 2002. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 33 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Cannonball”, on 14 lists with a best position of #11.
O is Damien Rice's debut album, first released in Ireland and the UK, and it came from a man who had already walked away once: after leaving the rock band Juniper in 1998, he farmed in Tuscany and busked his way around Europe before coming home to Ireland in 2001 to go solo. He produced it himself for 14th Floor Records, and it sounds like it: hushed, bare-boned folk, his voice pushed close to the mic, songs that sit in near silence for a verse and then crack wide open.
He dedicated it to Mic Christopher, a fellow musician and friend killed by a head injury just before the record was released. "Cannonball", "Volcano", "The Blower's Daughter" and "Amie" are the songs listeners keep going back to, and the album reached No. 8 in the UK, threw off three top 30 singles there and won the Shortlist Music Prize.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from O on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cannonball | 14 | #11 | – | 2003–2025 | |
| 2 | The Blower's Daughter | 8 | #46 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 3 | Volcano | 9 | #53 | – | 2004–2024 | |
| 4 | Amie | 2 | #206 | – | 2009–2013 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.