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Jake Bugg
Solo artist Clifton United Kingdom
Jake Bugg is an artist from Clifton. Jake Bugg has 50 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 21 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Lightning Bolt”, which appears on 21 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Jake Bugg most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
Jake Bugg's self-titled debut came out in October 2012, and the kid from Clifton, born in 1994, sounded like he'd been raised on a diet of dusty folk, blues and country records. He wrote some of it with songwriter Iain Archer, and the whole thing went straight to number one in Britain. "Lightning Bolt" is the one that grabbed everybody: a breathless, rattling strum with Bugg's reedy, nasal voice riding right on top of it. "Two Fingers" and "Seen It All" showed he could slow down and brood, too.
He didn't hang about. Shangri La arrived in November 2013, a louder, rowdier record carrying "What Doesn't Kill You" and "Me and You", and On My One followed in June 2016, largely self-produced, with "Gimme the Love" and "Bitter Salt" stretching the sound in new directions.
Since then he has swung between extremes: the mostly acoustic Hearts That Strain, produced by Dan Auerbach in 2017, and then, in August 2021, the poppier Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. The guitar, the voice and the stubborn old-school streak are still right there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jake Bugg on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightning Bolt | 21 | #2 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | Two Fingers | 10 | #8 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Me and You | 5 | #40 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | What Doesn't Kill You | 4 | #26 | – | 2014 | |
| 5 | Gimme the Love | 4 | #74 | – | 2016 | |
| 6 | Bitter Salt | 2 | #45 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | How Soon The Dawn | 1 | #70 | – | 2017 | |
| 8 | Seen It All | 1 | #32 | – | 2013 | |
| 9 | Taste It | 1 | #95 | – | 2013 | |
| 10 | Messed Up Kids | 1 | #188 | – | 2014 |
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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