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“There's No Other Way” by Blur

From the album Leisure (1991)

“There's No Other Way” by Blur appears on 43 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 1991 and 2023. It was first released in 1991 on the album Leisure. Its best result is #20 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #17 alternative song of 1991, #495 alternative song of all time and #482 of the '90s.

43countdowns
17stations
#20best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1991–2023years charted

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Blur's debut album Leisure carried "There's No Other Way", the second single the band pulled from it in 1991, and it catches the young Blur riding the Madchester wave: a loping, baggy shuffle, woozy guitars and a chorus delivered with a sly, faintly bored smirk. Damon Albarn wrote the words, and the music is credited to the whole band, Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree. Food Records put it out.

It reached number eight at home, and it was the first Blur song to chart in America at all: a lowly number 82 on the Hot 100, but number five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, which made it one of the biggest American hits they ever had.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1991 20 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991 107
1991 35 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991 91
1991 28 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991 105
1991 32 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 91 Songs of 1991 91

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 173 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) 500
1994 420 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 329 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1996 447 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 288 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 426 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 290 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 188 WLIR / WDRE WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 300
1999 763 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 432 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 174 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 475 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 474 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 174 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 472 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 176 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 491 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002) 500
2002 176 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 388 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 476 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003) 500
2003 176 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 176 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 401 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005) 500
2005 177 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 999 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 390 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006) 499
2007 453 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2007 517 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 512 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 523 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 535 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 524 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 528 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 521 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2019 502 KEXP KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time 627
2021 425 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 53 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2023 546 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2023 397 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420

Charting alongside it in 1991

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  3. 3UnbelievableEMF
  4. 4Kiss Them for MeSiouxsie and the Banshees
  5. 5RushBig Audio Dynamite
  6. 6Give It AwayRed Hot Chili Peppers

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