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City And Colour
Solo artist St. Catharines Canada
City And Colour is an artist from St. Catharines. City And Colour has 46 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Fragile Bird”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #18. The station that charted City And Colour most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Dallas Green had a day job as the singer and rhythm guitarist of Alexisonfire, the post-hardcore band he helped start, and in the gaps between their tours he played small, hushed rooms on his own. City and Colour is what he called that second life, a quiet pun on his own name: Dallas the city, green the colour. The Death of Me EP in 2004 carried "Save Your Scissors", and the full-length Sometimes arrived in 2005 and went platinum the following year.
Where Alexisonfire screamed, this is all fingerpicking, a high, aching voice and songs that sound like they were written at 3 in the morning. Bring Me Your Love in 2008 warmed it up with a dusty alt-country feel on "Sleeping Sickness", "Waiting" and "The Girl", and Little Hell in 2011 turned up the band and the drama on "Fragile Bird", "Weightless" and "The Grand Optimist".
He has kept at it since, with Dine Alone Records as his label, through If I Should Go Before You in 2015, with "Wasted Love", and The Love Still Held Me Near in 2023, with "Hard, Hard Time".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by City And Colour on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fragile Bird | 11 | #18 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Lover Come Back | 5 | #24 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | Comin' Home | 4 | #23 | – | 2007 | |
| 4 | Save Your Scissors | 4 | #30 | – | 2006 | |
| 5 | Weightless | 2 | #16 | – | 2011 | |
| 6 | Sleeping Sickness | 3 | #22 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | Thirst | 4 | #42 | – | 2013 | |
| 8 | Wasted Love | 2 | #28 | – | 2015 | |
| 9 | Underground | 2 | #28 | – | 2023 | |
| 10 | Save You Scissors | 1 | #27 | – | 2006 | |
| 11 | The Grand Optimist | 2 | #18 | – | 2012 | |
| 12 | Waiting | 1 | #38 | – | 2008 | |
| 13 | Hard, Hard Time | 1 | #12 | – | 2023 | |
| 14 | Harder Than Stone | 1 | #67 | – | 2013 | |
| 15 | Meant To Be | 1 | #787 | – | – | |
| 16 | Strangers | 1 | #92 | – | 2019 | |
| 17 | The Girl | 1 | #97 | – | 2009 |
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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