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Dr. Dre
Solo artist Compton United States Andre Young, rap producer
Dr. Dre is an artist from Compton. Dr. Dre has 17 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Nuthin' But A "G" Thang”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted Dr. Dre most often is 90.9 The Bridge (Kansas City, MO), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
Dr. Dre, born Andre Romell Young in 1965 and raised in Compton, started out in 1984 with the World Class Wreckin' Cru and then helped build N.W.A in 1987 with Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Arabian Prince, the crew whose Straight Outta Compton blew the lid off gangsta rap. When N.W.A split after their second album, Dre went solo, and on the synthesizers, drum machines and samplers that are his real instruments he built a whole new sound.
The Chronic, in 1992, was Death Row Records' first major release, and it made him one of the best-selling artists in America in 1993. This is G-funk: slow, rolling, heavy-bottomed grooves laid on a bed of whining synths, as lazy as a summer afternoon and as menacing as a squad car idling outside. "Nuthin' But A "G" Thang", with a young Snoop Dogg trading lines with Dre, went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Let Me Ride" won a Grammy. He produced Snoop's Doggystyle and mentored Warren G and Daz Dillinger on the side.
He left Death Row in 1996 to start Aftermath, and 2001 followed in 1999, with "Forgot About Dre", "Still D.R.E." and "The Next Episode". He signed Eminem and 50 Cent, founded Beats Electronics, released Compton in 2015, and has won seven Grammys, Producer of the Year among them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dr. Dre on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nuthin' But A "G" Thang | 6 | #24 | – | – | |
| 2 | Forgot About Dre | 6 | #17 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | The Next Episode | 2 | #271 | – | – | |
| 4 | Still D.R.E. | 1 | #240 | – | – | |
| 5 | Stil D.R.E. | 1 | #403 | – | – | |
| 6 | Let Me Ride | 1 | #828 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Dr. Dre as a guest.
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