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“Stand and Deliver” by Adam & the Ants

From the album Prince Charming (1981)

“Stand and Deliver” by Adam & the Ants appears on 27 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1981 and 2023. It was first released in 1981 on the album Prince Charming. Its best result is #11 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1981. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #11 alternative song of 1981, #1,116 alternative song of all time and #164 of the '80s.

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8stations
#11best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1981–2023years charted

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Adam and the Ants charged out ahead of their third album, Prince Charming, with "Stand and Deliver" in 1981, its title lifted from the old stick-up demand of England's 18th-century highwaymen. Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni wrote it as a swashbuckling romp: Merrick and Terry Lee Miall pound out a double-drum war dance, Pirroni's guitar twangs like a getaway, and Ant whoops and yelps up front, adding bass and harmonica, with Chris Hughes producing.

"Antmusic" had been stuck at number 2 behind the reissue of John Lennon's "Imagine"; this one went straight in at the top of the UK chart and stayed there five weeks. Only two singles outsold it in Britain in 1981, and its UK sales have reached 1.03 million.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1981 11 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1981 106
1982 17 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1982 107
1983 45 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1983 91

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1988 54 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) 496
1989 325 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) 495
1996 442 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1999 408 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 448 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 759 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 434 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 810 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 434 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 812 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 812 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 851 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 812 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 672 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 812 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 812 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1795 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1766 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1791 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1836 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1870 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1881 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1870 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2023 191 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s 850

Also listed as: Stand & Deliver; Stand And Deliver.

Charting alongside it in 1981

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