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Damien Rice
Solo artist Celbridge Ireland
Damien Rice is an artist from Celbridge. Damien Rice has 57 chart appearances on 36 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Cannonball”, which appears on 14 lists with a best position of #11. The station that charted Damien Rice most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 16 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Before he made his name alone, Damien Rice, born in Celbridge, Ireland, in 1973, spent the '90s in Juniper, a rock band that signed to Polygram in 1997 and did moderately well at home with the singles "The World is Dead" and "Weatherman". He walked away in 1998 and went looking for something else, working as a farmer in Tuscany and busking his way around Europe, before heading home to Ireland in 2001 to start over as a solo act. The bandmates he left behind carried on as Bell X1.
O, his 2002 debut, is a singer-songwriter record of the most intimate, folk-rooted kind, carried by his voice and guitar through "Cannonball", "Volcano", "Amie" and "The Blower's Daughter". It went to No. 8 on the UK albums chart, threw off three top-30 singles there and won the Shortlist Music Prize. 9 followed in 2006 with "9 Crimes" and "Rootless Tree", and then came eight years of collaborations before My Favourite Faded Fantasy, home of "I Don't Want To Change You", arrived in 2014. Along the way he gave his music to the Freedom Campaign, Songs for Tibet and the Enough Project.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Damien Rice on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cannonball | 14 | #11 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | 9 Crimes | 9 | #2 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | I Don't Want To Change You | 8 | #21 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | The Blower's Daughter | 8 | #46 | – | – | |
| 5 | Volcano | 9 | #53 | – | 2004 | |
| 6 | Amie | 2 | #206 | – | – | |
| 7 | Rootless Tree | 2 | #38 | – | 2007 | |
| 8 | Cannonbll | 1 | #180 | – | – | |
| 9 | Trusty And True | 1 | #85 | – | 2015 | |
| 10 | Dogs | 1 | #106 | – | 2008 | |
| 11 | The Greatest Bastard | 1 | #187 | – | 2014 |
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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