Artist · chart history
Bob Schneider
Solo artist Ypsilanti United States singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas
Bob Schneider is an artist from Ypsilanti. Bob Schneider has 24 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted Bob Schneider most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Bob Schneider, born in 1965 and from Ypsilanti, made his name in Austin, Texas, first as the lead singer of the rock band Ugly Americans and then as a one-man cottage industry. He has put out more than 20 studio albums and EPs, many of them on his own Shockorama Records, plus a steady trickle of demos and live tapes. Lonelyland, his first major record in 2001, went out through Universal, and a distribution deal with Vanguard kept those early records in the shops.
At heart he's an acoustic singer-songwriter, but he can't leave well enough alone, and the songs keep veering off into electronic textures, rock crunch and whatever else catches his ear. Lovely Creatures, in 2009, carried the wry, sprawling "40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)", and A Perfect Day followed in 2011 with "Let the Light In".
Onstage he plays solo or with a rotating cast of his own bands, Lonelyland and the Texas Bluegrass Massacre among them, and he's known for improvising and dragging the crowd into the act. His long-running Monday night residency at the Saxon Pub in Austin is practically a local institution.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bob Schneider on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet) | 7 | #23 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Metal And Steel | 3 | #385 | – | – | |
| 3 | Running On Empty | 2 | #57 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | I Love This Life | 2 | #40 | – | 2021 | |
| 5 | Big Blue Sea | 4 | #87 | – | 2002 | |
| 6 | Montana | 1 | #264 | – | – | |
| 7 | 40 Dogs | 1 | #35 | – | 2009 | |
| 8 | Blue Skies For Everyone | 1 | #402 | – | – | |
| 9 | Let the Light In | 2 | #74 | – | 2011 | |
| 10 | Tarantula | 1 | #638 | – | – |
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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