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Childish Gambino
Solo artist Edwards Air Force Base United States
Childish Gambino is an artist from Edwards Air Force Base. Childish Gambino has 62 chart appearances on 47 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “This is America”, which appears on 21 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Childish Gambino most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 11 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
Childish Gambino is the musical alter ego of Donald Glover, born in 1983, a man with a few too many careers for one lifetime. He wrote for 30 Rock, played Troy on Community and created, starred in and sometimes directed Atlanta, but under the Gambino name he's been busy remaking himself as a recording artist. After a string of independent releases he signed with Glassnote in 2011, and the debut Camp came out that November, followed by Because the Internet in 2013, which gave him his first Hot 100 entry with "3005".
Then he threw out the playbook. "Awaken, My Love!", in 2016, swapped rap for sprawling, psychedelic funk and slow-cooked soul, led by "Redbone", a woozy, slow-rolling groove that won him a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance. "Me and Your Mama" starts at a simmer and then boils right over.
"This Is America", in 2018, went straight in at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and swept the Grammys: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Music Video, the first hip-hop song to take those first two. A fourth album followed in 2020, reworked in 2024 as Atavista, and later that year he released Bando Stone & the New World.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Childish Gambino on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This is America | 21 | #1 | 1 | 2018 | |
| 2 | Redbone | 19 | #3 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | Lithonia | 5 | #6 | – | 2024 | |
| 4 | 3005 | 2 | #27 | – | 2013 | |
| 5 | Me and Your Mama | 2 | #9 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | Stay High w/Brittany Howard | 1 | #29 | – | 2021 | |
| 7 | Running Around | 1 | #30 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | So Into You (originally by Tamia) | 1 | #26 | – | – | |
| 9 | Sober | 1 | #31 | – | 2014 | |
| 10 | A Place Where Love Goes | 1 | #42 | – | 2024 | |
| 11 | Sweatpants | 1 | #60 | – | 2014 | |
| 12 | Stay High | 1 | #55 | – | 2021 | |
| 13 | Have Some Love | 2 | #82 | – | 2017 | |
| 14 | Stand Tall | 1 | #662 | – | – | |
| 15 | 19:10 | 1 | #76 | – | 2020 | |
| 16 | 19.1 | 1 | #87 | – | 2020 | |
| 17 | Feels Like Summer | 1 | #79 | – | 2018 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Childish Gambino as a guest.
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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