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Alan Parsons Project
Band Westminster United Kingdom Active 1975–1987
Alan Parsons Project formed in 1975 in Westminster, United Kingdom and was active until 1987. Alan Parsons Project has 20 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Eye In The Sky”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #479. The station that charted Alan Parsons Project most often is Q104.3 (New York, NY), with 5 appearances.
The Alan Parsons Project was a studio band in the truest sense: a British duo of producer and engineer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson, formed in 1975, sharing the writing and bringing in a rotating crew of session players, some of them so regular that fans count them as members. Parsons produced everything, playing keyboards, guitar, bass and flute and singing through a vocoder, while Woolfson sang lead and played keys.
Many of their albums were concept pieces with sci-fi, supernatural and literary themes, and the sound was glossy, cool and precise. I Robot, in 1977, gave them its eerie title track and "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You", a clipped, robotic funk strut. The Turn of a Friendly Card followed in 1980, and then came Eye in the Sky in 1982, whose title song glides along on a soft, watchful groove and is still the one listeners reach for first.
They made eleven studio albums in all, picked up Grammy and MTV Video Music Award nominations, and recorded for Arista and Charisma. "Games People Play", "Time", "Sirius" and "Don't Answer Me" are among the songs fans hold dearest.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Alan Parsons Project on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eye In The Sky | 10 | #479 | – | – | |
| 2 | Games People Play | 4 | #274 | – | – | |
| 3 | I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You | 2 | #837 | – | – | |
| 4 | Time | 1 | #1787 | – | – | |
| 5 | Sirius/Eye In The Sk y | 1 | #869 | – | – | |
| 6 | I Robot | 1 | #1928 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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