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Everything But The Girl
Band Kingston upon Hull United Kingdom Formed 1981
Everything But The Girl formed in 1981 in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. Everything But The Girl has 22 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Nothing Left To Lose”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Everything But The Girl most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
Fuse, released on April 21, 2023, ended a 24-year silence from Everything but the Girl, and it sounds like Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt never stopped listening to what was happening on the dancefloor. The Hull duo had gone quiet in 2000, with Thorn saying she was finished with performing live; they married in 2009, made solo records and said a return was unlikely. Then, in November 2022, they announced a finished album, and Fuse became the highest-charting record of their career, reaching No. 3 in the UK. "Nothing Left To Lose" is its heart: low, pulsing electronics under Thorn's unhurried, smoky voice.
That was the second reinvention. The early records were jazz-tinged sophisti-pop, Watt's guitar and Thorn's voice at their most elegant on songs like "Driving", from The Language of Life in 1990, and their cover of "I Don't Want to Talk About It" made No. 3 in the UK in 1988. Then came Amplified Heart in 1994 and "Missing", which Todd Terry remixed into a worldwide hit that climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995 and hung around the UK chart for more than seven months. After that they went electronic in earnest, and Walking Wounded, in 1996, entered the UK chart at No. 4 and threw off top-10 singles in the title track and "Wrong".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Everything But The Girl on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing Left To Lose | 8 | #6 | – | 2023 | |
| 2 | Missing | 7 | #330 | – | – | |
| 3 | Driving | 3 | #365 | – | – | |
| 4 | Missing (Terry Todd remix) | 1 | #236 | – | – | |
| 5 | Missing (Todd Terry Remix) | 1 | #258 | – | – | |
| 6 | Troubled Mind | 1 | #893 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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