Artist · chart history · #182 in alternative artist polls · #200 in indie & aaa artist polls
Fiona Apple
Solo artist Manhattan United States singer-songwriter and pianist
Fiona Apple is an artist from Manhattan. Fiona Apple has 190 chart appearances on 103 radio countdowns from 35 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Criminal”, which appears on 47 lists with a best position of #8. The station that charted Fiona Apple most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 36 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Fiona Apple, born in New York City in 1977, the youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, split her childhood between her parents' homes on opposite coasts, took up piano young and was writing songs by 8, and her debut, Tidal, in 1996, is made of songs she wrote as a teenager. You'd never guess it: that dusky, smoky voice sounds decades older, and the piano rolls and broods like a jazz trio after closing time. "Criminal" slinks and simmers and won her a Grammy for Best Female Rock Performance, and "Sleep to Dream" and "Shadowboxer" are every bit as moody.
When the Pawn..., produced by Jon Brion in 1999, went platinum and brought "Fast as You Can". Her third album, Extraordinary Machine, had a rough birth: she began it with Brion in 2002, was reportedly unhappy with how it sounded and shelved it, and fans protested at Epic in the mistaken belief that the label was sitting on it. She remade it with Mike Elizondo and Brian Kehew, and it came out in October 2005 and went gold.
The Idler Wheel... followed in 2012, and Fetch the Bolt Cutters, in 2020, is her wildest record yet, winning Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album and, for "Shameika", Best Rock Performance. Every one of her 5 albums has made the Billboard top 20.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Fiona Apple on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Criminal | 47 | #8 | – | 1997 | |
| 2 | Sleep To Dream | 31 | #40 | – | 1997 | |
| 3 | Shameika | 12 | #4 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Under the Table | 11 | #2 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Fast As You Can | 23 | #13 | – | 1999 | |
| 6 | Shadowboxer | 17 | #73 | – | 1996 | |
| 7 | Extraordinary Machine | 10 | #158 | – | – | |
| 8 | I Want You To Love Me | 8 | #13 | – | 2020 | |
| 9 | O'Sailor | 5 | #36 | – | 2005 | |
| 10 | Every Single Night | 6 | #49 | – | 2012 | |
| 11 | Paper Bag | 2 | #174 | – | – | |
| 12 | Parting Gift | 1 | #10 | – | 2005 | |
| 13 | Relay | 1 | #15 | – | 2022 | |
| 14 | Across The Universe | 1 | #139 | – | – | |
| 15 | Better Version of Me | 1 | #259 | – | – | |
| 16 | The Whole Of The Moon | 1 | #412 | – | – | |
| 17 | Never Is A Promise | 2 | #105 | – | 1997 | |
| 18 | Cosmonauts | 2 | #66 | – | 2020 | |
| 19 | Get Him Back | 2 | #69 | – | 2006 | |
| 20 | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | 1 | #59 | – | 2020 | |
| 21 | Heavy Balloon | 1 | #60 | – | 2020 | |
| 22 | The First Taste | 1 | #710 | – | – | |
| 23 | Hot Knife | 1 | #794 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
1996Tidal
1999When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ’Fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold You
2005Extraordinary Machine
2012The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
2020Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Fiona Apple as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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