Song · Jamiroquai
“Alright” by Jamiroquai
From the album Travelling Without Moving (1996)
“Alright” by Jamiroquai appears on 9 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1997 and 2005. It was first released in 1996 on the album Travelling Without Moving. Its best result is #57 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #181 alternative song of 1997 and #4,680 alternative song of all time.
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"Alright" is Jay Kay at his most loose-limbed, a third single lifted from Jamiroquai's 1996 album Travelling Without Moving and put out in 1997 on Sony Soho Square. It's built on borrowed grooves, sampling Eddie Harris' "It's All Right Now" and Idris Muhammad's "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This", and Kay, who wrote it with Toby Smith, co-produced it with Al Stone, who also engineered and mixed. Simon Katz handles the guitar.
The result is smooth, sun-warmed acid-jazz funk, the sound of a band that knows exactly how good the party is. The Vaughan Arnell video puts them right in the middle of one. It went to number six in Britain and gave Jamiroquai their only entry on the Billboard Hot 100, a modest number 78, which says more about American radio than about the song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 57 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 | 105 |
| 1997 | 74 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1997 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1808 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1811 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1816 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1803 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1782 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1782 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1783 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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