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Cracker Island by Gorillaz
Cracker Island is an album by Gorillaz, released in 2023. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 31 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Cracker Island”, on 17 lists with a best position of #3.
Cracker Island, the eighth Gorillaz album, dropped on 24 February 2023, and it began life as the second season of the Song Machine web series before the band scrapped that plan and made a standalone record instead. Greg Kurstin produced most of it in Los Angeles in 2021, and it was wrapped up by May 2022. Damon Albarn's cartoon crew lean harder than ever into glossy pop and synth-pop here, and the guest list is as wild as you'd hope: Stevie Nicks, Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Bootie Brown and Beck.
Albarn has called it a loose concept album about conspiracy theories and online echo chambers, which suits all that glassy, nervous shimmer. It gave them their first UK number one since Demon Days, picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album, and closed out their run with Parlophone and Warner Records.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Cracker Island on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cracker Island | 17 | #3 | – | 2022–2025 | |
| 2 | New Gold | 12 | #13 | – | 2022–2023 | |
| 3 | Silent Running | 1 | #56 | – | 2023 | |
| 4 | Baby Queen | 1 | #77 | – | 2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.