Artist · chart history
Corinne Bailey Rae
Solo artist Leeds United Kingdom
Corinne Bailey Rae is an artist from Leeds. Corinne Bailey Rae has 28 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Put Your Records On”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #48. The station that charted Corinne Bailey Rae most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Corinne Bailey Rae, born in Leeds in 1979, arrived in 2006 on a wave of expectation: the BBC's annual poll of critics had tipped her as the breakthrough act of the year. Then came "Put Your Records On", a sunny, unhurried slice of soul-pop with a lilting guitar and a voice as soft as worn velvet, and suddenly everyone had heard her.
Her self-titled debut album came out in February 2006 and went straight in at number one in Britain, making her only the fourth British woman to manage that with a first album; it went on to sell over four million copies. In 2007 she was up for three Grammys, Best New Artist among them, and the following year she shared in the Album of the Year award as a featured artist on Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters.
Grief shaped what came next. Her husband, the musician Jason Rae, died in 2008, and The Sea, produced by Steve Brown and Steve Chrisanthou, the team behind the debut, arrived in 2010 and earned a Mercury Prize nomination. A cover of Bob Marley and the Wailers' "Is This Love" won her a Grammy for Best R&B Performance, and The Heart Speaks in Whispers followed in 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Corinne Bailey Rae on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put Your Records On | 15 | #48 | – | – | |
| 2 | The Blackest Lily | 4 | #77 | – | 2010 | |
| 3 | New York Transit Queen | 2 | #39 | – | 2023 | |
| 4 | I'd Do It Again | 1 | #13 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | He Will Follow You With His Eyes | 1 | #39 | – | 2024 | |
| 6 | Like a Star | 1 | #543 | – | – | |
| 7 | A Spell, A Prayer | 1 | #337 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Red Horse | 1 | #150 | – | 2023 | |
| 9 | Put It Down | 1 | #465 | – | 2024 | |
| 10 | Erasure | 1 | #495 | – | 2024 |
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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