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The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow
The Seldom Seen Kid is an album by Elbow, released in 2008. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 22 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Grounds for Divorce”, on 13 lists with a best position of #15.
The Seldom Seen Kid, Elbow's fourth album, came out on Fiction in March 2008, and it's the record where a band from Bury that had been playing together since 1990, and calling itself Elbow since 1997, finally got the audience its patience deserved. Guy Garvey sings like the warmest man at the bar at closing time, while Craig Potter's keyboards, Mark Potter's guitar, Pete Turner's bass and Richard Jupp's drums build slow, glowing rooms around him.
It entered the UK chart at number five and won the 2008 Mercury Prize, and a year later Elbow picked up the Brit for Best British Group. "One Day Like This", the big, swelling singalong at its heart, won an Ivor Novello Award in 2009, then got a second life when it played at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics and rose to number 4 on the UK singles chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Seldom Seen Kid on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grounds for Divorce | 13 | #15 | – | 2008–2026 | |
| 2 | One Day Like This | 6 | #3 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 3 | The Bones Of You | 3 | #303 | – | 2009–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.