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Glen Hansard
Solo artist Ballymun Ireland
Glen Hansard is an artist from Ballymun. Glen Hansard has 37 chart appearances on 33 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Falling Slowly”, which appears on 20 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted Glen Hansard most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 12 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Glen Hansard grew up in Ballymun in northern Dublin and was busking on the streets from his teens, and that street-corner hunger never left his voice: a craggy, full-throated thing that can go from a whisper to a roar inside a single chorus. In 1990 he co-founded the Frames and fronted them through six studio albums, four of which went top ten in Ireland, and in 1991 he turned up on screen in The Commitments.
In 2005 he started the Swell Season, a folk rock duo, and in 2006 their album The Swell Season carried "Falling Slowly", a hushed, heartbreaking duet that swells from almost nothing into something huge. Hansard starred in the 2007 musical drama Once, and "Falling Slowly", written with Markéta Irglová, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The film was later turned into a stage musical.
He went solo with Rhythm and Repose in 2012, and his second album, Didn't He Ramble, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. Between Two Shores in 2018 brought the soulful, rolling "Roll on Slow". Hansard died in a motorcycle accident near Dublin in July 2026, at 56, and his funeral was held at St Patrick's Cathedral.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Glen Hansard on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling Slowly | 20 | #16 | – | 2008 | |
| 2 | Roll on Slow | 5 | #29 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | Winning Streak | 2 | #58 | – | 2015 | |
| 4 | Love Don't Leave Me Waiting | 2 | #59 | – | 2012 | |
| 5 | Say It to Me Now | 1 | #189 | – | – | |
| 6 | There's No Mountain | 1 | #29 | – | 2024 | |
| 7 | Maybe Not Tonight | 1 | #423 | – | – | |
| 8 | Her Mercy | 1 | #43 | – | 2016 | |
| 9 | Drive All Night | 2 | #56 | – | 2013 | |
| 10 | Time Will Be The Healer | 1 | #68 | – | 2017 | |
| 11 | Trying To Pull Myself Away | 1 | #125 | – | 2008 |
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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