Artist · chart history · #175 in alternative artist polls · #383 in indie & aaa artist polls
Bryan Ferry
Solo artist Washington United Kingdom
Bryan Ferry is an artist from Washington. Bryan Ferry has 71 chart appearances on 48 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 1985–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Slave to Love”, which appears on 27 lists with a best position of #30. The station that charted Bryan Ferry most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1985.
Bryan Ferry studied fine art and taught school before he started putting Roxy Music together in London in 1970, and he never stopped treating pop as an art form. As Roxy's singer and main songwriter he was the glamorous center of one of the most striking bands of the '70s, trying on gaucho outfits and military uniforms on stage, and he ran a solo career alongside it from the start: These Foolish Things in 1973 was an album of standards, a move so out of step with his day job that it helped make the covers record a respectable thing for a rocker to do.
Let's Stick Together in 1976 gave him 2 UK top 10 hits, the title track and "The Price of Love", all swagger and croon. Then, after Roxy's Avalon, he broke up the band in 1983 to go solo full time, and Boys and Girls in 1985 went to number one in Britain. "Slave to Love" is the sound of that record: a slow, sumptuous, late-night glide, with Ferry crooning like a man in a dinner jacket who has just seen a ghost, and "Don't Stop the Dance" is even silkier.
Bête Noire in 1987 kept the sheen with "Kiss and Tell" and "The Right Stuff". He's a CBE now, and in 2019 he went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Roxy Music.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bryan Ferry on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slave to Love | 27 | #30 | – | 1985 | |
| 2 | Don't Stop The Dance | 7 | #611 | – | – | |
| 3 | Kiss and Tell | 11 | #61 | – | 1988 | |
| 4 | Let's Stick Together | 9 | #102 | – | – | |
| 5 | The Right Stuff | 7 | #76 | – | 1987 | |
| 6 | The In Crowd | 2 | #448 | – | – | |
| 7 | You Can Dance | 3 | #79 | – | 2010 | |
| 8 | Loop De Li | 1 | #78 | – | 2015 | |
| 9 | Don't Stop Dance | 1 | #82 | – | 1985 | |
| 10 | Is Your Love Strong Enough | 1 | #84 | – | 1986 |
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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