Artist · chart history · #358 in indie & aaa artist polls
Harry Chapin
Solo artist Brooklyn United States
Harry Chapin is an artist from Brooklyn. Harry Chapin has 26 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Cat's In The Cradle”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #151. The station that charted Harry Chapin most often is Q104.3 (New York, NY), with 10 appearances.
Harry Chapin, born in Brooklyn in 1942, was a folk rock singer-songwriter whose best songs play out like short stories. He played guitar, banjo, piano and harmonica, and his songs unfold slowly, with plain, earnest vocals and arrangements that swell as the story gathers speed.
His debut album, Heads & Tales, arrived in 1972 carrying "Taxi", a long, winding song, and the Grammys nominated him for Best New Artist in 1973. Verities & Balderdash followed in 1974 with "Cat's in the Cradle", his best-known song and the one that still stops people cold. Between 1972 and his death in 1981 he made 11 albums, and every one of the 14 singles he released became a hit on at least one national chart, adding up to more than 16 million records sold.
He cared about more than music. Chapin campaigned to end world hunger and helped create the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977, and in 1987 he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work, 6 years after he died.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Harry Chapin on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat's In The Cradle | 12 | #151 | – | – | |
| 2 | Taxi | 13 | #367 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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