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Sleep Through the Static by Jack Johnson
Sleep Through the Static is an album by Jack Johnson, released in 2008. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 35 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “If I Had Eyes”, on 24 lists and voted number one once.
Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson's fourth studio album, arrived on February 5, 2008, and for the first time the Hawaii-born songwriter made a record away from home, at the Solar Powered Plastic Plant in Los Angeles, with JP Plunier producing. The mood is still breezy and barefoot, all easy acoustic strum and warm grooves, but a little more electric and a little more restless underneath.
Lead single "If I Had Eyes" turned up on his MySpace page on December 11, 2007, with "Hope" following. Critics mostly shrugged, but the fans did not: the album debuted on top of the Billboard 200, moving roughly 375,000 copies in seven days, a record haul of digital sales at the time, and held the top spot for three weeks. Johnson gave every dollar of the proceeds from the tour behind it to his Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sleep Through the Static on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If I Had Eyes | 24 | #1 | 1 | 2007–2025 | |
| 2 | Hope | 10 | #11 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Angel | 1 | #521 | – | 2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.