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Boz Scaggs
Solo artist Canton United States
Boz Scaggs is an artist from Canton. Boz Scaggs has 29 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Loan Me a Dime”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #78. The station that charted Boz Scaggs most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Boz Scaggs was born in 1944, and before he ever made a record under his own name he had been kicking around with Steve Miller, first in the Ardells in the early '60s and then in the Steve Miller Band in 1967 and 1968. He sings and plays guitar, and he has soul in his bones: his solo career got going in 1969 with a self-titled album that includes "Loan Me a Dime", still the song from that debut that radio keeps coming back to, sung in a voice as smooth as poured cream.
It took a while for the rest of the world to catch up. Silk Degrees did it in 1976, reaching number 2 on the Billboard 200 on the strength of "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown", slick, strutting rock-soul that sounded like a night out in a good suit. For the sessions he picked out David Paich, David Hungate and Jeff Porcaro, and touring with Scaggs helped push the three toward forming Toto. Down Two Then Left and Middle Man both went platinum, the latter with "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo".
He sat out most of the '80s, came back in 1988 with Other Roads, joined the New York Rock and Soul Revue, and opened Slim's, a much-loved San Francisco club that closed in 2020. He has kept recording since, through Out of the Blues in 2018 and Detour in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Boz Scaggs on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loan Me a Dime | 8 | #78 | – | – | |
| 2 | Lido Shuffle | 9 | #367 | – | – | |
| 3 | Lowdown | 7 | #219 | – | – | |
| 4 | Radiator 110 | 1 | #5 | – | 2018 | |
| 5 | Breakdown Dead Ahead | 1 | #422 | – | – | |
| 6 | Gimme the Goods | 1 | #1124 | – | – | |
| 7 | Lido Shufe | 1 | #469 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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