Artist · chart history · #286 in alternative artist polls · #507 in indie & aaa artist polls
Blind Melon
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 1989
Blind Melon formed in 1989 in Los Angeles, United States. Blind Melon has 139 chart appearances on 123 radio countdowns from 44 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “No Rain”, which appears on 109 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Blind Melon most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 17 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1993.
Blind Melon came out of Los Angeles at the start of the '90s sounding as if they'd wandered in from a different decade and decided to stay. Shannon Hoon sang lead, strummed acoustic and blew harmonica; Rogers Stevens and Christopher Thorn split the guitars, Stevens adding keyboards and piano, Thorn mandolin and more harmonica; Brad Smith played bass, sang harmonies and picked up the flute when a song wanted it; and Glen Graham kept the drums and percussion loose and rolling. While everybody else was cranking the distortion, they went for a neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock, all ringing strings, easy sway and sunlight.
The self-titled debut arrived in 1992, and "No Rain" was the song that broke them: a lopsided, sweet-natured strum with Hoon's voice reaching up into the high notes like he wasn't sure he'd make it and didn't mind. "Tones of Home" and "Change" came off the same record, and the band picked up a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 1994, one of 4 Grammy nods they'd collect.
Soup followed in 1995, and that October it all came apart. On October 21, 1995, Hoon overdosed and died aboard the tour bus in New Orleans. The others spent 4 years trying to find someone to stand where he had stood, never did, and called it off in 1999.
In 2006 Stevens, Thorn, Smith and Graham started up again with Travis Warren singing, and made one album with him, For My Friends, in 2008. Warren left soon after it came out, came back in 2010, and the band has played the occasional show since. On the countdowns, "No Rain" still does most of the talking, with "Tones of Home" and "Galaxie" close behind.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Blind Melon on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Rain#233 of all time | 109 | #2 | – | 1993 | |
| 2 | Galaxie | 12 | #50 | – | 1995 | |
| 3 | Tones of Home | 13 | #45 | – | 1993 | |
| 4 | Three Is A Magic Number | 1 | #274 | – | – | |
| 5 | Wishing Well | 1 | #89 | – | 2008 | |
| 6 | Change | 1 | #822 | – | – |
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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