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David Gilmour
Solo artist Cambridge United Kingdom Pink Floyd
David Gilmour is an artist from Cambridge. David Gilmour has 11 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “There's No Way Out Of Here”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #500. The station that charted David Gilmour most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
David Gilmour, born in Cambridge in 1946, is best known as Pink Floyd's lead guitarist, the man with the long, singing bends. He joined shortly before Syd Barrett's departure, and his playing, slow, bluesy and big as the sky, gave the band its heart while it turned into one of the most acclaimed and biggest-selling acts of all time. When Roger Waters walked out in 1985, Gilmour took the wheel and steered Pink Floyd through A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987 and The Division Bell in 1994, with The Endless River to come in 2014.
His solo records run on a slower clock. The self-titled debut arrived in 1978 and About Face in 1984, and 2006's On an Island, with its title track drifting out like a warm tide, is the sound of a man in no hurry at all. Rattle That Lock and Luck and Strange followed in 2015 and 2024, and he has three UK number-one solo albums to go with six in Pink Floyd. His wife, the novelist Polly Samson, has written words for many of his songs.
He has made a habit of helping others: he produced two albums for the Dream Academy and paid for Kate Bush's early recordings, helping her land a record deal. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him with Pink Floyd in 1996, the UK Music Hall of Fame did the same in 2005, and he was made a CBE in 2003.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by David Gilmour on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There's No Way Out Of Here | 7 | #500 | – | – | |
| 2 | Blue Light | 1 | #42 | – | – | |
| 3 | On An Island | 1 | #59 | – | 2006 | |
| 4 | Rattle That Lock | 1 | #93 | – | 2015 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 500 | There's No Way Out Of Here | Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2024) |
| 2015 | 93 | Rattle That Lock | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 |
| 2006 | 59 | On An Island | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006 |
| 2006 | 570 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2005 | 42 | Blue Light | WFPK Top 100 Party Songs |
| 2004 | 661 | There's No Way Out Of Here | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) |
| 1999 | 704 | There's No Way Out Of Here | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) |
| 1998 | 853 | There's No Way Out Of Here | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) |
| 1996 | 782 | There's No Way Out Of Here | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) |
| 1995 | 737 | There's No Way Out Of Here | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) |
| 1994 | 723 | There's No Way Out Of Here | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) |
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