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Dido
Solo artist London United Kingdom English singer‐songwriter
Dido is an artist from London. Dido has 29 chart appearances on 23 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Thank You”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Dido most often is Virgin Radio (United Kingdom), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Dido, born in London in 1971, makes the kind of soft, late-night pop that sounds best with the lights down: a clear, unhurried voice floating over hushed guitars, piano and trip-hop-tinted beats. Her debut, No Angel, arrived in 1999 with "Here With Me" and "Thank You", and it went on to sell more than 21 million copies worldwide, picking up Brit Awards for Best British Album and Best British Female plus the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act. The opening verse of "Thank You" also found a second life when Eminem sampled it for "Stan".
Life for Rent, in 2003, kept the run going with "White Flag" and its title track, and both of her first two albums rank among the biggest sellers in UK chart history. In 2004 she sang on Band Aid 20's version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?". Safe Trip Home followed in 2008, and "If I Rise", her duet with A. R. Rahman, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2011.
She stepped back to raise her son, then came back with Girl Who Got Away in 2013, a UK top 5 album, and joined Eminem on stage at Reading and Leeds that year. Still on My Mind, in March 2019, took her back on the road for the first time in 15 years, the Ivor Novellos honoured her song collection that May, and in 2020 she made The Last Summer with her brother Rollo Armstrong.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dido on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thank You | 11 | #6 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Here With Me | 9 | #16 | – | 1999 | |
| 3 | White Flag | 5 | #211 | – | – | |
| 4 | Don't Think Of Me | 1 | #40 | – | 2000 | |
| 5 | Hunter | 1 | #98 | – | 2001 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Dido 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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