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Brian Eno
Solo artist Woodbridge United Kingdom
Brian Eno is an artist from Woodbridge. Brian Eno has 12 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Baby's on Fire”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #140. The station that charted Brian Eno most often is KALX 90.7 (San Francisco Bay Area), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
Brian Eno, the Suffolk-born art-school boy who calls himself a non-musician, spent his first years in rock twiddling the knobs for Roxy Music, joining as keyboardist in 1971 and treating the synthesizer less like an instrument than a hazard to navigation. Two albums in, the self-titled debut and For Your Pleasure, he walked after the tour amid friction with Bryan Ferry, and he'd already cut (No Pussyfooting) with King Crimson's Robert Fripp, all tape loops and drifting delay.
Then came the solo records, and they are a gas. Here Come the Warm Jets is glam gone gleefully wrong, and "Baby's on Fire" is the pick of it: a nasty little sneer that builds to a racket of guitars. "Needle in the Camel's Eye" rides a wall of fuzz that feels like a pop song seen through frosted glass. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) and the gorgeous Another Green World followed, and Before and After Science, in December 1977, closed the rock chapter with "Kings Lead Hat" and its jittery, twitchy bounce.
After that he drifted into quieter rooms, coining the idea of ambient music with Music for Airports in 1979, and became the producer everyone wanted: David Bowie in Berlin, Talking Heads, U2. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame caught up with him in 2019, as a member of Roxy Music.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Brian Eno on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baby's on Fire | 3 | #140 | – | – | |
| 2 | Inclusion | 1 | #28 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Kings Lead Hat | 1 | #74 | – | – | |
| 4 | I'm Hardly Me | 1 | #65 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | John Cale Been There Done That | 1 | #761 | – | – | |
| 6 | Needle in the Camel's Eye | 1 | #351 | – | – | |
| 7 | Here He Comes | 2 | #754 | – | – | |
| 8 | Garden of Stars | 1 | #169 | – | 2023 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Brian Eno as a guest.
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