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Gin Blossoms
Band Tempe United States Formed 1987
Gin Blossoms formed in 1987 in Tempe, United States. Gin Blossoms has 155 chart appearances on 78 radio countdowns from 31 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hey Jealousy”, which appears on 46 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Gin Blossoms most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 63 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1993.
Gin Blossoms came out of Tempe, Arizona, in 1987, and from the first they sounded like a hot afternoon going slowly wrong: jangling, chiming guitars, big, easy melodies and lyrics with a hangover behind every hook. Jesse Valenzuela and Doug Hopkins were there from the start on guitars, with Robin Wilson singing and playing guitar, Bill Leen on bass and Phillip Rhodes on drums soon settling in beside them. Dusted, in 1989, and the Up and Crumbling EP in 1991, with "Mrs. Rita", came first.
New Miserable Experience, their first major-label album, arrived on A&M in 1992, and the title said everything about the mood and nothing about the sales: it went 4 times platinum. "Hey Jealousy" became a top 25 hit and went gold, and 4 more charting singles followed, "Until I Fall Away" and "Found Out About You" among them. Hopkins was gone by 1992, and Scott Johnson came in that year.
"Til I Hear It from You" kept the run going, and Congratulations I'm Sorry, in 1996, went platinum with "Follow You Down", while "As Long as It Matters" earned a Grammy nomination. The band broke up in 1997, came back together in 2001, and has since put out Major Lodge Victory in 2006, No Chocolate Cake in 2010 and Mixed Reality in 2018. On the countdowns, "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You" still sound like the last good summer.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Gin Blossoms on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hey Jealousy | 46 | #6 | – | 1993 | |
| 2 | Alison Road | 18 | #134 | – | – | |
| 3 | Found Out About You | 34 | #47 | – | 1993 | |
| 4 | Mrs. Rita | 16 | #66 | – | 1993 | |
| 5 | Til I Hear It From You | 20 | #31 | – | 1995 | |
| 6 | Until I Fall Away | 14 | #45 | – | 1994 | |
| 7 | Follow You Down | 4 | #49 | – | 1996 | |
| 8 | Found About You | 1 | #414 | – | – | |
| 9 | Miss Disarray | 1 | #101 | – | 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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