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De La Soul
Band Amityville United States Formed 1987
De La Soul formed in 1987 in Amityville, United States. De La Soul has 26 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 1989–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Me, Myself And I”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #131. The station that charted De La Soul most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
De La Soul came out of Amityville, Long Island, and turned hip-hop into a playground. Kelvin "Posdnuos" Mercer, David "Trugoy the Dove" Jolicoeur and Vincent "Maseo" Mason were still high school kids when a demo of "Plug Tunin'" caught the ear of producer Prince Paul, and together they built a sound out of wildly eclectic samples and eccentric, playful rhymes.
3 Feet High and Rising, their 1989 debut, is a riot of samples and in-jokes, silly and sharp at once. "Me, Myself And I" bounces along with a sunny, sly grin, "Eye Know" drifts on a sweet, easy lilt, and "Say No Go" rides a fat, funky groove. It's still their biggest seller, and it helped push jazz rap and alternative hip-hop into being, with De La Soul standing as the longest-running crew of the Native Tongues.
They kept pushing into the '90s, turning tougher on "Stakes Is High", and in 2006 they won a Grammy for "Feel Good Inc." with Gorillaz. Sample-clearance tangles and contract disputes kept their catalog off streaming until 2023, the same year Trugoy the Dove died.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by De La Soul on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Me, Myself And I | 8 | #131 | – | – | |
| 2 | Eye Know | 7 | #34 | – | 1989 | |
| 3 | The Magic Number | 3 | #176 | – | – | |
| 4 | A Rollerskating Jam Named "Saturdays" | 3 | #152 | – | – | |
| 5 | Pain | 1 | #20 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | A Rollerskating Jam Called Saturday | 1 | #454 | – | – | |
| 7 | Stakes Is High | 1 | #727 | – | – | |
| 8 | Say No Go | 1 | #91 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with De La Soul as a guest.
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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