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Aloe Blacc
Solo artist Laguna Hills United States
Aloe Blacc is an artist from Laguna Hills. Aloe Blacc has 11 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Need a Dollar”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Aloe Blacc most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Aloe Blacc was born Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III on January 7, 1979, and he hails from Laguna Hills. He's a singer, songwriter, rapper and producer who plays trumpet, bass and keys too, and his music lives where soul, R&B and jazz meet. Away from his solo work he's also one half of the hip-hop duo Emanon, alongside producer Exile.
Good Things, his 2010 album on Stones Throw, is where he found his lane: warm, horn-flecked retro soul, led by "I Need a Dollar", a song whose title says it all and whose groove sounds like it was dug out of a crate of old soul singles. He had another big hit in "The Man", which went all the way to number one on the UK singles chart.
Then came 2013 and "Wake Me Up", his guest turn on Avicii's single, where Blacc's grainy, folk-tinged vocal rides an acoustic strum before the beat drops. It topped the charts in 22 countries, Australia and the UK among them. Later songs like "Brooklyn in the Summer" kept that easygoing warmth going.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Aloe Blacc on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Need a Dollar | 5 | #10 | – | 2010 | |
| 2 | Brooklyn in the Summer | 2 | #50 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | Wake Me Up | 2 | #24 | – | 2013 | |
| 4 | Femme Fatale | 1 | #48 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | I Need a Dollar (How to Make It in America) | 1 | #854 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Aloe Blacc as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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