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Cat Power
Solo artist Atlanta United States
Cat Power is an artist from Atlanta. Cat Power has 52 chart appearances on 36 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Greatest”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #80. The station that charted Cat Power most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Cat Power started as a band name and ended up as the alias of Chan Marshall, the Atlanta-born singer-songwriter who grew up all over the American South before cutting her teeth in Atlanta bands in the early '90s. After opening for Liz Phair in 1993, she hooked up with Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar and knocked out her first two albums, Dear Sir and Myra Lee, in a single day in 1994. Matador signed her in 1996.
Her early records are skeletal and spooky, a scrape of punk, folk and blues around a voice that sounds like it's confessing to an empty room. Moon Pix, made with members of Dirty Three, drew raves in 1998, and The Covers Record in 2000 stripped other people's songs down to the studs. You Are Free, in 2003, brought in Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder as guests, and then came the big turn: The Greatest, cut with a crew of Memphis session players, wrapped her ache in warm, slow-rolling soul. Another covers set, Jukebox, followed in 2008, and the self-produced Sun gave her a career-best number 10 on the Billboard 200 in 2012. She has never made the same record twice.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cat Power on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Greatest | 13 | #80 | – | – | |
| 2 | Woman | 7 | #19 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | Pa Pa Power | 4 | #56 | – | 2022 | |
| 4 | Living Proof | 3 | #91 | – | 2006 | |
| 5 | Love And Communication | 2 | #163 | – | – | |
| 6 | Cross Bones Style | 3 | #321 | – | – | |
| 7 | Ruin | 3 | #86 | – | 2012 | |
| 8 | Sea Of Love | 1 | #113 | – | – | |
| 9 | Free | 2 | #305 | – | – | |
| 10 | Willie | 1 | #279 | – | – | |
| 11 | New York New York | 1 | #296 | – | – | |
| 12 | Like A Rolling Stone (Live at Royal Albert Hall) | 1 | #47 | – | 2024 | |
| 13 | Ballad Of A Thin Man | 1 | #428 | – | – | |
| 14 | Cherokee | 2 | #54 | – | 2012 | |
| 15 | Good Woman | 1 | #563 | – | – | |
| 16 | Wonderwall | 1 | #33 | – | 2000 | |
| 17 | Werewolf | 1 | #39 | – | 2003 | |
| 18 | Metal Heart | 1 | #810 | – | – | |
| 19 | I Don't Blame You | 1 | #582 | – | – | |
| 20 | She Belongs To Me (Live) | 1 | #836 | – | – | |
| 21 | New York | 1 | #873 | – | – |
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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