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Fats Domino
Solo artist New Orleans United States
Fats Domino is an artist from New Orleans. Fats Domino has 10 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Blueberry Hill”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #244. The station that charted Fats Domino most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 3 appearances.
Antoine "Fats" Domino was born in New Orleans in 1928 to a French Creole family, signed with Imperial in 1949, and promptly helped invent rock and roll. His first single, "The Fat Man", written with Dave Bartholomew, gets named by some historians as the very first rock and roll record and the first to sell a million. What carried it was that piano: a rolling, rocking boogie-woogie roll that could make a whole room sway without breaking a sweat.
He loaned that sound to Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" in 1952, then went on a tear starting with "Ain't That a Shame" in 1955, landing eleven Top 10 pop hits over the next few years. "Blueberry Hill" and "Walking to New Orleans" became part of the national furniture. Shy and soft-spoken offstage, he let the music do his bragging, and the people who mattered noticed: Elvis Presley called him a huge influence and hailed him as the real king of rock and roll, and the Beatles soaked him up too.
He was in the first class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, took a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, received the National Medal of Arts, and four of his records went into the Grammy Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Fats Domino on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blueberry Hill | 3 | #244 | – | – | |
| 2 | The Fat Man | 1 | #576 | – | – | |
| 3 | I'm Ready | 1 | #1268 | – | – | |
| 4 | Ain't That a Shame | 1 | #1320 | – | – | |
| 5 | My Blue Heaven | 2 | #915 | – | – | |
| 6 | Walkin' To New Orleans | 1 | #1843 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 244 | Blueberry Hill | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time |
| 2023 | 826 | Blueberry Hill | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 |
| 2020 | 1268 | I'm Ready | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2020 | 1843 | Walkin' To New Orleans | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2019 | 915 | My Blue Heaven | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 915 | My Blue Heaven | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2006 | 564 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2001 | 576 | The Fat Man | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2001 | 1046 | Blueberry Hill | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2001 | 1320 | Ain't That a Shame | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
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