Artist · chart history
Frank Turner
Solo artist Manama United Kingdom UK punk & folk singer‐songwriter
Frank Turner is an artist from Manama. Frank Turner has 70 chart appearances on 55 radio countdowns from 21 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Recovery”, which appears on 22 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Frank Turner most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
Frank Turner spent the early '00s fronting the post-hardcore band Million Dead, and when that outfit broke up in 2005 he picked up an acoustic guitar and carried on as a solo act, with all the punk still in him. The English singer-songwriter, born in 1981, turned into a folk-punk troubadour with a big heart, and the Rock & Roll EP in 2010 gave him the rabble-rousing "I Still Believe".
On record and on stage he's flanked by the Sleeping Souls: Ben Lloyd on guitar and mandolin, Tarrant Anderson on bass, Matt Nasir on piano and mandolin and Callum Green on drums, a band that gives his songs a full-throated, pub-singalong kick. Tape Deck Heart in 2013 brought the bruised, bouncing "Recovery", Positive Songs for Negative People in 2015 had "Mittens" and "The Next Storm", and No Man's Land in 2019 carried "Sister Rosetta". Xtra Mile Recordings is his label.
He hasn't slowed down. The solo albums have piled up to 10, and the ninth, FTHC, hit number one on the UK albums chart the week after it came out in 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Frank Turner on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recovery | 22 | #4 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | Next Storm | 12 | #10 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | Girl From The Record Shop | 8 | #27 | – | 2024 | |
| 4 | I Still Believe | 6 | #7 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Do One | 4 | #36 | – | 2024 | |
| 6 | Blackout | 5 | #19 | – | 2018 | |
| 7 | The Way I Tend to Be | 3 | #33 | – | 2013 | |
| 8 | Haven't Been Doing So Well | 2 | #12 | – | 2022 | |
| 9 | If I Ever Stray | 2 | #23 | – | 2011 | |
| 10 | Losing Days | 1 | #11 | – | 2013 | |
| 11 | Mittens | 1 | #26 | – | 2016 | |
| 12 | Build Me Up Buttercup | 1 | #279 | – | – | |
| 13 | The Real Damage | 1 | #414 | – | – | |
| 14 | Sister Rosetta | 1 | #44 | – | 2019 | |
| 15 | Photosynthesis | 1 | #76 | – | 2010 |
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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