Artist · chart history · #528 in indie & aaa artist polls
Harry Connick Jr.
Solo artist New Orleans United States
Harry Connick Jr. is an artist from New Orleans. Harry Connick Jr. has 4 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2015. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “We Are In Love”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #265. The station that charted Harry Connick Jr. most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2015.
Harry Connick Jr. came out of New Orleans, born in 1967, and by 1990 he was at the piano for Columbia with We Are in Love, crooning the title track and "Recipe For Love" as if the rock era had simply never happened. He is a jazz man first, a singer, pianist and composer who plays the music like it's still alive rather than behind museum glass, and it says something about his pull that a record this far from a distortion pedal turned up on rock radio's countdowns at all.
The numbers behind him are hard to argue with: more than 30 million albums sold worldwide, ten number-one albums on the US jazz chart, more than anyone in that chart's history as of 2009, and three Grammys. His best seller in America is a Christmas record, When My Heart Finds Christmas, from 1993.
He never stayed in one lane. In 1990 he also made his screen debut as a tail gunner in Memphis Belle, later played a fighter pilot in Independence Day, led opposite Sandra Bullock in Hope Floats, and from 2002 to 2006 was Leo, Grace's husband, on Will & Grace. Broadway brought Tony nominations for his score in 2002 and his acting in 2006, and he has Emmys, one of them for music direction, plus a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Harry Connick Jr. on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We Are In Love | 1 | #265 | – | – | |
| 2 | Recipe For Love | 1 | #923 | – | – | |
| 3 | (I Do) Like We Do | 1 | #89 | – | 2015 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | (I Do) Like We Do | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2015 |
| 2006 | 531 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 1991 | 265 | We Are In Love | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) |
| 1991 | 923 | Recipe For Love | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) |
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