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Ben Howard
Solo artist London United Kingdom
Ben Howard is an artist from London. Ben Howard has 13 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Only Love”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Ben Howard most often is Lightning 100 (Nashville, TN), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
Ben Howard, a London-born singer-songwriter, came up the slow way: three EPs, starting with the self-released Games in the Dark in 2008 and following with These Waters and Old Pine, before Island Records signed him. Every Kingdom, his 2011 debut album, is the one that made his name, folk and folk rock built on busy, rolling guitar and a voice that sounds most at home just above a whisper. "Keep Your Head Up" and "The Fear" came off it, and the album reached number four in the UK and went triple platinum.
In 2013 the Brit Awards handed him British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act, and that summer he played Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage. Then he got moodier. I Forget Where We Were, released in October 2014 and home to "Conrad", went to number one in the UK. He has kept drifting further out since, through a stint in the band A Blaze of Feather and the albums Noonday Dream (2018), Collections from the Whiteout (2021) and Is It? (2023).
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ben Howard on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only Love | 4 | #9 | – | 2012 | |
| 2 | Keep Your Head Up | 4 | #8 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Days Of Lantana | 1 | #107 | – | – | |
| 4 | I Forget Where We Were | 1 | #325 | – | – | |
| 5 | The Fear | 1 | #29 | – | 2012 | |
| 6 | Conrad | 1 | #82 | – | 2014 | |
| 7 | Old Pine | 1 | #93 | – | 2012 |
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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