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Andra Day
Solo artist Spokane United States
Andra Day is an artist from Spokane. Andra Day has 10 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2016–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Rise Up”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Andra Day most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Andra Day, the stage name of Cassandra Monique Batie, born in 1984 and out of Spokane, arrived in 2015 with Cheers to the Fall, a debut on Warner Bros. Records that sounds like a vintage soul record sung with a modern pulse. Stevie Wonder gets part of the credit for discovering her, and the two turned up together in an Apple TV ad late that year.
"Rise Up" is the song that stuck, a slow, swelling ballad that builds from a hush to a full-throated stand. At the 2016 Grammys it was up for Best R&B Performance while the album was nominated for Best R&B Album, and when she sang it on The View the performance earned her a Daytime Emmy nomination.
Then she went to the movies. In 2021 she made her acting debut as Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday, winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a drama and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the film's soundtrack brought her a Grammy too.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Andra Day on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rise Up | 9 | #2 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | Forever Mine | 1 | #39 | – | 2016 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Andra Day as a guest.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 447 | Rise Up | KXT 917 Song Countdown |
| 2026 | 776 | Rise Up | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2025 | 752 | Rise Up | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century |
| 2024 | 735 | Rise Up | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) |
| 2023 | 1033 | Rise Up | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 |
| 2022 | 1155 | Rise Up | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 |
| 2019 | 458 | Rise Up | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 458 | Rise Up | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2016 | 2 | Rise Up | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016 |
| 2016 | 39 | Forever Mine | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016 |
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