Artist · chart history
Embrace
Band Bailiff Bridge United Kingdom Formed 1993 British indie group
Embrace formed in 1993 in Bailiff Bridge, United Kingdom. Embrace has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Gravity”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #79. The station that charted Embrace most often is Y100 (Philadelphia, PA), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Embrace come from Bailiff Bridge in West Yorkshire, and at the heart of the band are two brothers: Danny McNamara, who sings, and Richard McNamara, who plays guitar. Steve Firth on bass, Mickey Dale on keyboards and Mike Heaton on drums round out a lineup built for the big, wide-open anthem, the kind of Northern soul-searching that aims straight for the back row and doesn't care if you think it's too much.
The Good Will Out, their debut, set the template, and Drawn from Memory and If You've Never Been followed. Out of Nothing arrived in 2004, and "Gravity" sits right at its center: a slow-building swell of keyboards, guitars and Danny's aching vocal that climbs and keeps climbing.
They didn't stop there. This New Day, a self-titled record, Love Is a Basic Need and How to Be a Person Like Other People brought the tally to eight studio albums.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Embrace on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 79 | Gravity | Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005 |
| 2004 | 463 | Gravity | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) |
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