Artist · chart history
Fairground Attraction
Band London United Kingdom Active 1987–1990
Fairground Attraction formed in 1987 in London, United Kingdom and was active until 1990. Fairground Attraction has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–1991. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Perfect”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #27. The station that charted Fairground Attraction most often is WLIR / WDRE (Long Island, NY), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
Fairground Attraction came out of London in 1987 with a sound that had no business on the radio in the age of drum machines, and "Perfect" barged in anyway: a jaunty acoustic skip that folded folk and soft rock into something small, bright and utterly sure of itself. Eddi Reader sang, with Mark Nevin, Simon Edwards and Roy Dodds making up the rest of the band.
Their debut on RCA, The First of a Million Kisses, carried both "Perfect" and "Find My Love", and in 1989 the band walked off with two Brit Awards.
It didn't last. They split in 1990, heading off to solo careers, and it took until 2024 for Fairground Attraction to reunite.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Fairground Attraction on radio countdowns
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 537 | Perfect | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) |
| 1988 | 66 | Perfect | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988 |
| 1988 | 27 | Perfect | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988 |
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