Artist · chart history
Bakar
Solo artist Camden United Kingdom British singer
Bakar is an artist from Camden. Bakar has 33 chart appearances on 31 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2019–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hell N Back”, which appears on 14 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Bakar most often is Lightning 100 (Nashville, TN), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Bakar makes music that refuses to sit in one box, and his breakout, "Hell N Back", from the 2019 EP Will You Be My Yellow?, is the proof: a breezy, sun-warmed guitar lick, a lazy groove and a voice that sounds like it just rolled out of bed and into a good mood. The Camden singer, born Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr, works a loose, genre-hopping style usually filed as experimental indie rock.
"Hell N Back" is still the song most people know him by, and it has stayed on the countdowns long after its first run. He followed it with his debut album, Nobody's Home, in 2022, and a second, Halo, in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bakar on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hell N Back | 14 | #10 | – | 2020 | |
| 2 | 1st Time | 7 | #37 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | Free | 3 | #20 | – | 2022 | |
| 4 | First Time | 2 | #39 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | The Mission | 1 | #34 | – | 2021 | |
| 6 | Hell and back | 1 | #336 | – | – | |
| 7 | Good News | 1 | #51 | – | 2023 | |
| 8 | Alive | 4 | #82 | – | 2023 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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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