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Cat Stevens
Solo artist Marylebone United Kingdom now known as Yusuf Islam
Cat Stevens is an artist from Marylebone. Cat Stevens has 50 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Father And Son”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #123. The station that charted Cat Stevens most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 14 appearances.
Cat Stevens was born Steven Demetre Georgiou in Marylebone in 1948, and he was a pop star while still a teenager: "Matthew and Son", the title song of his 1967 debut, made the UK top 10, and so did the album. But the version of him that stuck arrived at the turn of the '70s, the gentle, searching singer with an acoustic guitar and a head full of big questions.
Tea for the Tillerman, in 1970, is where it all came together, with "Father And Son", "Wild World" and "On The Road To Find Out", and Teaser and the Firecat followed in 1971 with "Moonshadow", "Peace Train", "Morning Has Broken" and "The Wind". Both went triple platinum in America, and Catch Bull at Four topped the Billboard 200 in 1972. He wrote "The First Cut Is the Deepest", a hit for 4 different artists.
At the end of 1977 he became a Muslim, and a year later he was Yusuf Islam. In 1979 he auctioned off his guitars for charity and left music to devote himself to education and philanthropy. He came back in 2006 with An Other Cup, his first new pop record in 28 years, followed by Roadsinger, Tell 'Em I'm Gone and The Laughing Apple, the 2017 record that brought the old name back as Yusuf / Cat Stevens. He entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, remade Tea for the Tillerman for its 50th anniversary in 2020, and put out King of a Land in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cat Stevens on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Father And Son | 15 | #123 | – | – | |
| 2 | Wild World | 10 | #155 | – | – | |
| 3 | Peace Train | 6 | #120 | – | – | |
| 4 | Moonshadow | 5 | #240 | – | – | |
| 5 | Morning Has Broken | 5 | #520 | – | – | |
| 6 | The Wind | 3 | #291 | – | – | |
| 7 | Oh Very Young | 2 | #707 | – | – | |
| 8 | On The Road To Find Out | 1 | #353 | – | – | |
| 9 | Trouble | 1 | #1405 | – | – | |
| 10 | Where Do the Children Play? | 1 | #1522 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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