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George Michael
Solo artist East Finchley United Kingdom
George Michael is an artist from East Finchley. George Michael has 24 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Faith”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #90. The station that charted George Michael most often is 90.9 The Bridge (Kansas City, MO), with 5 appearances.
George Michael, born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley in 1963, spent the first half of the '80s as the voice and the brains of Wham!, the pop duo he formed with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. He sang on Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 1984 and turned up at Live Aid the following year, but it was going solo that showed what he really had. Faith, in 1987, was sleek, sexy, stripped-back pop-soul with a rockabilly strut on the title track, and it won the Grammy for Album of the Year and sold more than 25 million copies. "I Want Your Sex" made sure nobody missed the point.
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 arrived in 1990, a more grown-up, inward-looking set with "Freedom! '90" as its strutting centerpiece. Older followed in 1996, and in 1998 he came out as gay, going on to campaign for LGBTQ rights and raise money for HIV/AIDS charities.
He wrote and produced his own records and filled them with a voice that could go from velvet to raw in a single bar: 10 number-one singles in America and 13 at home tell the story. His final show came at Earls Court in 2012. Heart disease took him on Christmas Day 2016, at home in Goring-on-Thames, and he went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by George Michael on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faith | 9 | #90 | – | – | |
| 2 | Freedom '90 | 6 | #64 | – | – | |
| 3 | Freedom | 3 | #69 | – | – | |
| 4 | Careless Whisper | 2 | #132 | – | – | |
| 5 | One More Try | 1 | #209 | – | – | |
| 6 | Father Figure | 1 | #282 | – | – | |
| 7 | Waiting for that Day | 1 | #474 | – | – | |
| 8 | I Want Your Sex | 1 | #97 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with George Michael as a guest.
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