Artist · chart history
Craig Finn
Solo artist Boston United States
Craig Finn is an artist from Boston. Craig Finn has 21 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Luke And Leanna”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #14. The station that charted Craig Finn most often is WTMD (Baltimore, MD), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Craig Finn, born August 22, 1971, is best known as the voice at the front of the Hold Steady, the bar-band storytellers he has made nine studio albums with, and before that he fronted Lifter Puller. On his own he trades the big guitars for something quieter and closer, songs sung and half-spoken like short fiction, and he has been at it long enough to build a solo shelf of six albums.
Clear Heart Full Eyes opened the run in 2012 and Faith in the Future followed in 2015. We All Want the Same Things, in 2017, brought "God in Chicago", a hushed, novelistic piece that plays like a short story set to music, and I Need a New War arrived in 2019. A Legacy of Rentals, in 2022, gave the countdowns "Birthdays", and Always Been came in 2025. Vagrant Records has been part of the story along the way.
He's a talker off the record too. In 2022 he started a podcast, That's How I Remember It, on the Talkhouse Network, interviewing musicians and artists about how memory feeds creativity, and in 2025 he added a second, Summer Album/Winter Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Craig Finn on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luke And Leanna | 6 | #14 | – | 2025 | |
| 2 | Preludes | 4 | #79 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | People Of Substance | 4 | #25 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | Maggie I've Been Searching For Our Son | 3 | #87 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | God in Chicago | 1 | #75 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | Honolulu Blues | 1 | #76 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | Birthdays | 1 | #77 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Jackson | 1 | #885 | – | – |
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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