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Francis Dunnery

Solo artist Egremont United Kingdom

Francis Dunnery is an artist from Egremont. Francis Dunnery has 21 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “American Life In The Summertime”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #76. The station that charted Francis Dunnery most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1994.

21appearances

19countdowns

5songs charted

5stations

0#1 finishes

1994–2024years

Francis Dunnery, born in Egremont, England, in 1962, spent the '80s as the singer and guitarist of the prog-pop band It Bites, a job he held from 1982 to 1990. Since then he's gone his own way as a solo artist, and by 1994's Fearless he had shed most of the prog fuss for something warmer and looser. "American Life In The Summertime" is the one that stuck: a breezy, sharp-eyed song with a hooky chorus and guitar playing that shows off his chops without drowning the tune.

Dunnery has also been a busy hired hand and collaborator, working with Robert Plant, Ian Brown, Lauryn Hill and Santana, among others, and producing or collaborating with the likes of David Sancious and Chris Difford. He was one of the singers invited to audition for Genesis after Phil Collins left in 1996, played in a reformed version of The Syn in 2008 and 2009, and since 2001 has run his own label, Aquarian Nation.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Francis Dunnery on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	American Life In The Summertime	377	11	#76	–	1994
2	Too Much Saturn	284	5	#237	–	–
3	Riding on the Back	44	2	#931	–	–
4	I'm In Love	20	1	#727	–	–
5	Wounding And Healing Of Man	17	1	#737	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1994Fearless1 charting song

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2024	931	Riding on the Back	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2024	1003	Too Much Saturn	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2019	237	Too Much Saturn	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2019	237	Too Much Saturn	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019
2013	737	Wounding And Healing Of Man	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2010	590	American Life In The Summertime	WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010)
2009	459	Too Much Saturn	WYEP 913 Essential Songs
2009	727	I'm In Love	WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade
2009	709	American Life In The Summertime	WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009)
2007	1709	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2006	416	Artist ranking	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006)
2005	1187	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1187	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	1187	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	1202	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	1203	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	524	Too Much Saturn	WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time
2001	1352	Riding on the Back	WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time
2000	1196	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	1195	American Life In The Summertime	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1994	76	American Life In The Summertime	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994

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