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Fountains of Wayne
Band New York United States Active 1996–2013
Fountains of Wayne formed in 1996 in New York, United States and was active until 2013. Fountains of Wayne has 129 chart appearances on 74 radio countdowns from 30 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Stacy's Mom”, which appears on 33 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Fountains of Wayne most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 45 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Fountains of Wayne were the brainchild of Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, a New York City songwriting partnership with a bottomless supply of hooks and no shame at all about using them. Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young came aboard after the first album, and that four-piece carried the band for most of its run.
The self-titled debut on Virgin in 1996 gave the countdowns "Radiation Vibe" and "Sink to the Bottom", all crunchy guitars and sugar-rush choruses, and Utopia Parkway in 1999 followed with "Denise" and "Red Dragon Tattoo". Then Welcome Interstate Managers, in 2003, delivered "Stacy's Mom", a cheeky, Grammy-nominated power-pop blast that became the song everybody knows them for, and landed them a Best New Artist nomination after years of being anything but new. Traffic and Weather kept the wit coming in 2007.
They put out six albums between 1996 and 2011 before quietly calling it a day in 2013. Schlesinger died of complications from COVID-19 in 2020, and the surviving members played an online benefit concert in his memory that same month, then reunited for shows in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Fountains of Wayne on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stacy's Mom | 33 | #1 | 1 | 2003 | |
| 2 | Radiation Vibe | 24 | #435 | – | – | |
| 3 | Sink To The Bottom | 19 | #91 | – | 1997 | |
| 4 | Hey Julie | 8 | #16 | – | 2004 | |
| 5 | Red Dragon Tattoo | 10 | #539 | – | – | |
| 6 | Someone to Love | 7 | #43 | – | 2007 | |
| 7 | Hackensack | 7 | #55 | – | – | |
| 8 | Mexican Wine | 4 | #47 | – | 2004 | |
| 9 | Traffic And Weather | 2 | #43 | – | 2007 | |
| 10 | Denise | 3 | #79 | – | 1999 | |
| 11 | I-95 | 2 | #500 | – | – | |
| 12 | Someone's Gonna Break… | 1 | #34 | – | 2011 | |
| 13 | Baby One More Time | 1 | #71 | – | 1999 | |
| 14 | Maureen | 1 | #109 | – | 2005 | |
| 15 | Bright Future In Sales | 1 | #585 | – | – | |
| 16 | Richie and Rubin | 1 | #73 | – | 2011 | |
| 17 | Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart | 1 | #701 | – | – | |
| 18 | It Must Be Summer | 1 | #778 | – | – | |
| 19 | Leave the Biker | 1 | #935 | – | – | |
| 20 | 92 Subaru | 1 | #880 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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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