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Christine and the Queens
Solo artist Nantes France French singer and songwriter
Christine and the Queens is an artist from Nantes. Christine and the Queens has 17 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2015–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “People I've Been Sad”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Christine and the Queens most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Christine and the Queens is the stage name of Redcar, born in Nantes in 1988, who took piano lessons from the age of four and found the spark for the whole project in a London club while studying there. A string of EPs came out between 2011 and 2013 on Because Music, the independent label he has stayed with since 2012.
The debut album, Chaleur humaine, arrived in 2014 with "Christine" on board: cool, sleek synth-pop with a dancer's sense of movement. It reached number two in both France and the UK and went diamond at home. Chris, in 2018, was tougher and funkier, and critics piled praise on it; "Girlfriend" was named song of the year by Time. Then came grief. After his mother died, he made the 2020 EP La vita nuova, and its centerpiece, "People, I've Been Sad", is a hushed, aching electronic ballad that Time again named song of the year.
The records since then, from Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) in 2022 to Paranoia, Angels, True Love in 2023, won critics over without selling like the early ones, and Hopecore, in 2024, headed back toward the dance floor. In 2022 he began using he/him pronouns.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Christine and the Queens on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People I've Been Sad | 6 | #5 | – | 2020 | |
| 2 | Girlfriend | 2 | #8 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | I disappear in your arms | 5 | #26 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | 5 Dollars | 1 | #24 | – | 2018 | |
| 5 | Christine | 1 | #26 | – | 2015 | |
| 6 | Tilted | 1 | #73 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | A day in the water | 1 | #86 | – | 2023 |
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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