Artist · chart history
3 Colours Red
Band London United Kingdom Active 1995–2005
3 Colours Red formed in 1995 in London, United Kingdom and was active until 2005. 3 Colours Red has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Beautiful Day”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #52. The station that charted 3 Colours Red most often is 89X (Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1999.
3 Colours Red were a London hard rock band with a name picked by chance: they stuck a pin in a London listings magazine, and it landed on an advertisement for the final part of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors film trilogy. The music was a lot less random. Pete Vuckovic, Chris McCormack, Keith Baxter and, later, Ben Harding and Paul Grant made loud, melodic guitar rock with big, bruising choruses and enough grit to keep it from going soft.
They signed to Creation Records and hit their stride at the end of the '90s, riding the same British guitar-rock wave as Ash, Stereophonics and Feeder. Revolt, from 1999, is their high-water mark, and "Beautiful Day" is its surprise: a soaring, bittersweet anthem that trades some of the band's usual swagger for heartache and a chorus you can sing along to at full volume.
All told, they put two albums into the UK Top 20 and six singles into the Top 40 before calling it quits in 2005.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by 3 Colours Red on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beautiful Day | 3 | #52 | – | 1999 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 90 | Beautiful Day | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1999 |
| 1999 | 52 | Beautiful Day | 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999 |
| 1999 | 1998 | Beautiful Day | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) |
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