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Gerry Rafferty
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Gerry Rafferty

Solo artist Paisley United Kingdom

Gerry Rafferty is an artist from Paisley. Gerry Rafferty has 32 chart appearances on 31 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Baker Street”, which appears on 29 lists with a best position of #80. The station that charted Gerry Rafferty most often is Q104.3 (New York, NY), with 5 appearances.

32appearances
31countdowns
3songs charted
16stations
0#1 finishes
1987–2026years

Gerry Rafferty was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1947, into a working-class family, and his mother taught him Irish and Scottish folk songs before the Beatles and Bob Dylan got to him. He started out in the Humblebums with Billy Connolly, and after that folk-pop outfit folded in 1971 he cut a solo debut called Can I Have My Money Back? before forming Stealers Wheel with Joe Egan and scoring with "Stuck in the Middle with You".

The real triumph came in 1978 with his second solo album, City to City, and it's all down to "Baker Street". It's a lush, melancholy, slow-rolling beauty, big on atmosphere, with Rafferty's warm, weary voice at the center of it. "Right Down the Line" and "Night Owl" kept the late-'70s hits coming, but "Baker Street" is the one rock radio has never let go of.

Drink dogged Rafferty for most of his life, and he died of liver failure in 2011.

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

Songs by Gerry Rafferty on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 Baker Street
1,056		 29 #80 – –
2 Right Down The Line
59		 2 #389 – –
3 Baker St.
59		 1 #333 – –

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2026 377 Baker Street WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time
2025 586 Baker Street Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025)
2024 278 Baker Street WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2024 407 Baker Street Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024)
2023 310 Baker Street WMGK Philly 500 (2023)
2023 389 Right Down The Line KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023)
2023 399 Baker Street Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023)
2023 420 Baker Street WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023
2023 944 Baker Street WPDH Top 1015 (2023)
2023 333 Baker St. The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places
2022 211 Baker Street River 500 (2022)
2022 256 Baker Street Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022)
2022 406 Baker Street WMGK Philly 500 (2022)
2022 310 Baker Street 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s
2021 564 Baker Street Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021)
2020 755 Baker Street WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2018 478 Baker Street BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018)
2017 499 Baker Street BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017)
2014 140 Baker Street BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014)
2014 632 Right Down The Line BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014)
2012 722 Baker Street 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012)
2011 702 Baker Street 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011)
2010 642 Baker Street WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010)
2006 462 Baker Street Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006)
2005 474 Baker Street Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004 327 Baker Street Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2001 491 Baker Street Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1966 Baker Street WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time
1997 446 Baker Street KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997)
1991 790 Baker Street CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition)
1990 92 Baker Street Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1990)
1987 80 Baker Street Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1987)

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