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Grace Jones
Solo artist Saint Catherine United States
Grace Jones is an artist from Saint Catherine. Grace Jones has 6 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1985–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Pull Up to the Bumper”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #266. The station that charted Grace Jones most often is 90.9 The Bridge (Kansas City, MO), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1985.
Grace Jones, born in Saint Catherine in 1948, walked into the recording studio straight off the catwalk. She had modelled in New York for Wilhelmina, then in Paris for Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, landing on the covers of Elle and Vogue Hommes and posing for Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, all angles and androgyny. In 1977 she signed to Island Records and became a reigning queen of the Studio 54 disco crowd.
Disco was only the warm-up. With the designer Jean-Paul Goude shaping the image and Sly & Robbie laying down the bottom end, she slid into new wave on Warm Leatherette in 1980 and Nightclubbing in 1981: a cool, menacing brew of reggae, funk, post-punk and pop, with that deep, deadpan voice sounding as if it were issuing orders. "Private Life", "Pull Up to the Bumper" and "Love Is the Drug" all made the UK Top 40, and Goude directed A One Man Show, a 1982 video collection that earned a Grammy nomination.
Slave to the Rhythm, in 1985, was the grand statement, its title track a slow, stately, hypnotic groove. By then she had become a screen presence too, as Zula in Conan the Destroyer and May Day in the Bond film A View to a Kill. Much later she worked with Gorillaz and Janelle Monáe and turned up on Beyoncé's Renaissance, and she holds the Order of Jamaica.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Grace Jones on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull Up to the Bumper | 3 | #266 | – | – | |
| 2 | Slave to the Rhythm | 1 | #4 | – | 1985 | |
| 3 | This Is | 1 | #705 | – | – | |
| 4 | Warm Leatherette | 1 | #524 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Grace Jones as a guest.
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