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Doves

Band Handforth United Kingdom Formed 1998 English indie rock band

Doves formed in 1998 in Handforth, United Kingdom. Doves has 69 chart appearances on 52 radio countdowns from 21 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Caught By The River”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #29. The station that charted Doves most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.

69appearances
52countdowns
13songs charted
21stations
0#1 finishes
2001–2026years

Doves were three Cheshire lads who'd already had a dance hit in 1993 as Sub Sub before reinventing themselves in 1998 as a guitar band with widescreen ambitions. Jimi Goodwin sings and plays bass, and the twins Jez and Andy Williams handle guitar and drums, and together they make a lush, melancholy, cloud-bursting kind of indie rock that sounds like a northern English night sky after rain.

Lost Souls, their 2000 debut on Heavenly, brought "Catch the Sun" and "Firesuite" and got them a Mercury Prize nomination. The Last Broadcast went to number one in Britain in 2002, home of "There Goes the Fear", a sprawling, surging epic that reached number 3 in the UK, and the hymnal "Caught by the River". Some Cities followed in 2005 with the stomping "Black and White Town", another top-ten single, and Kingdom of Rust arrived in 2009.

Then they went quiet. In 2010 Goodwin went solo while the Williams brothers regrouped as Black Rivers, but the trio came back in 2018, played shows in 2019 and released The Universal Want in 2020. Goodwin, dealing with mental health issues, hasn't played live with them since 2019.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Doves on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 Caught By The River
707		 12 #29 – 2002
2 Black and White Town
648		 15 #49 – 2005
3 There Goes the Fear
518		 11 #3 – 2002
4 Catch the Sun
427		 17 #63 – 2001
5 Cedar Room
120		 2 #68 – 2002
6 Kingdom of Rust
73		 3 #63 – 2009
7 Carousels
58		 1 #28 – 2020
8 Jetstream
44		 1 #60 – 2009
9 Words
44		 1 #511 – –
10 Firesuite
38		 1 #456 – –
11 Renegade
33		 1 #39 – 2025
12 One of These Days
6		 1 #833 – –
13 Spellbound
4		 1 #854 – –

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.

01 02 05 09 20 25

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2026 724 Catch the Sun The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound
2025 39 Renegade WBER Listener Countdown 2025
2025 577 Catch the Sun The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs
2024 317 Catch the Sun The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century
2024 733 There Goes the Fear The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century
2024 456 Firesuite The Best Opening Tracks of All Time
2024 854 Spellbound WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2023 781 Black and White Town The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places
2022 1009 Catch the Sun The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time
2022 172 There Goes the Fear 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2022 465 Black and White Town 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2022 511 Words 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2022 667 Catch the Sun 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2020 28 Carousels WBER Listener Countdown 2020
2019 1025 Kingdom of Rust WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2014 385 Caught By The River CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014 743 Black and White Town CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013 385 Caught By The River CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013 730 Black and White Town CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013 27 There Goes the Fear BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years
2011 388 Caught By The River CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2011 736 Black and White Town CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010 380 Caught By The River CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2010 760 Black and White Town CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009 63 Kingdom of Rust CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2009
2009 60 (tie) Jetstream WBER Listener Countdown 2009
2009 69 Kingdom of Rust KSLG Top 94 of 2009
2009 376 Caught By The River CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009 746 Black and White Town CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009 635 There Goes the Fear WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade
2009 833 One of These Days WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009)
2008 378 Caught By The River CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2008 731 Black and White Town CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007 369 Caught By The River CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007 563 Black and White Town CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2006 396 Catch the Sun WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)
2006 443 There Goes the Fear WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)
2006 498 Black and White Town WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)
2006 723 Artist ranking WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006)
2005 88 Black and White Town 89X Top 89 Songs of 2005
2005 63 Black and White Town CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2005
2005 143 Black and White Town Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005
2005 49 Black and White Town WBER Listener Countdown 2005
2005 322 Black and White Town ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005
2005 431 Catch the Sun WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005)
2005 476 There Goes the Fear WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005)
2003 431 Catch the Sun WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003)
2003 39 There Goes the Fear Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003)
2002 70 Caught By The River KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002
2002 83 There Goes the Fear 91X Top 91 Songs of 2002
2002 84 Caught By The River 89X Top 89 Songs of 2002
2002 29 Caught By The River CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002
2002 61 There Goes the Fear The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002
2002 84 Caught By The River The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002
2002 97 Caught By The River Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002
2002 3 There Goes the Fear Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 2002
2002 16 (tie) There Goes the Fear WBER Listener Countdown 2002
2002 68 (tie) Cedar Room WBER Listener Countdown 2002
2002 452 Catch the Sun WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002)
2002 76 Artist ranking Virgin Radio Top 100 Brit Artists of All-Time (December 2002)
2001 83 Catch the Sun 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001
2001 86 Catch the Sun WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001
2001 63 Catch the Sun The End Top 107 Songs of 2001
2001 64 Catch the Sun CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
2001 95 Catch the Sun The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001
2001 79 Catch the Sun 99X Top 99 Songs of 2001
2001 97 (tie) Cedar Room WBER Listener Countdown 2001
2001 161 (tie) Catch the Sun WBER Listener Countdown 2001
2001 201 Catch the Sun WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001)

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