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Chuck Berry
Solo artist St. Louis United States
Chuck Berry is an artist from St. Louis. Chuck Berry has 50 chart appearances on 28 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Johnny B Goode”, which appears on 24 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted Chuck Berry most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 17 appearances.
Chuck Berry took rhythm and blues and bolted on the parts that make rock and roll what it is: the guitar solo, the showmanship and songs about teenage life and the things money could buy. Born in St. Louis in 1926, he picked up his licks and stage flash from T-Bone Walker, joined the Johnnie Johnson Trio in 1953, and in May 1955 went to Chicago, where Muddy Waters pointed him toward Leonard Chess. For Chess Records he cut "Maybellene", his reworking of the country tune "Ida Red", and it sold over a million copies and topped the rhythm and blues chart.
Then came the run that rock has been borrowing from ever since: "Roll Over Beethoven", "Rock and Roll Music", "School Days" and "Johnny B. Goode", songs built on guitar that cracks like a starter's pistol. By the end of the '50s he was a star with hits, movie appearances and his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. "No Particular Place to Go" and "Promised Land" kept him rolling in 1964, and the novelty "My Ding-a-Ling" gave him his only number-one single.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him with its very first class in 1986, the Kennedy Center honored him in 2000, and the Polar Music Prize followed in 2014. "Johnny B. Goode" even flew into space on the Voyager Golden Record, the only rock and roll song aboard. He died in 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Chuck Berry on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny B Goode | 24 | #15 | – | – | |
| 2 | Maybellene | 9 | #113 | – | – | |
| 3 | Promised Land | 2 | #98 | – | – | |
| 4 | No Particular Place To Go | 3 | #85 | – | – | |
| 5 | School Days | 2 | #446 | – | – | |
| 6 | Memphis | 1 | #49 | – | – | |
| 7 | Back In The USA | 3 | #628 | – | – | |
| 8 | Roll Over Beethoven | 1 | #650 | – | – | |
| 9 | Jaguar & T-Bird | 1 | #770 | – | – | |
| 10 | Rock And Roll Music | 1 | #346 | – | – | |
| 11 | Carol | 1 | #867 | – | – | |
| 12 | Route 66 | 1 | #623 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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