Artist · chart history
Dessa
Solo artist Minneapolis American rapper, singer, spoken word artist
Dessa is an artist from Minneapolis. Dessa has 23 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dixon's Girl”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Dessa most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 21 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
Dessa is a Minneapolis singer, rapper, writer and one-time record executive, born Margret Wander in 1981, and one of the voices in Doomtree, an indie hip-hop crew. She treats a verse like a short story and a hook like a confession, sliding between rapping and singing without ever sounding like she's changing lanes.
A Badly Broken Code came out on Doomtree in 2010, with "Dixon's Girl" and "The Chaconne" showing off a writer's ear for detail. Parts of Speech followed in 2013 with "Skeleton Key", "Warsaw" and "Call Off Your Ghost", and Chime in 2018 brought "Good Grief", "5 Out of 6" and "Fire Drills". After the I Already Like You EP in 2021, Bury the Lede arrived in 2023 with "Hurricane Party" and "Blush".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dessa on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dixon's Girl | 2 | #10 | – | 2010 | |
| 2 | Skeleton Key | 2 | #14 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Hurricane Party | 2 | #5 | – | 2023 | |
| 4 | The Chaconne | 2 | #19 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | Call Off Your Ghost | 2 | #25 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Good Grief | 3 | #40 | – | 2017 | |
| 7 | Good For You | 1 | #33 | – | 2019 | |
| 8 | Warsaw | 1 | #34 | – | 2013 | |
| 9 | 5 Out Of 6 | 1 | #36 | – | 2018 | |
| 10 | Blush | 1 | #40 | – | 2022 | |
| 11 | Velodrome | 1 | #40 | – | 2018 | |
| 12 | Fire Drills | 1 | #53 | – | 2018 | |
| 13 | Grade School Games | 1 | #74 | – | 2019 | |
| 14 | Tough Call | 1 | #78 | – | 2025 | |
| 15 | Rome | 1 | #80 | – | 2021 | |
| 16 | Sadie Hawkins | 1 | #100 | – | 2008 |
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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