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Jean Dawson
Solo artist San Diego United States experimental pop musician
Jean Dawson is an artist from San Diego. Jean Dawson has 18 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2021–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Pirate Radio”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Jean Dawson most often is KXT (Dallas–Fort Worth, TX), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Jean Dawson is the stage name of David Sanders, a Mexican-American musician from San Diego, born in 1995, and genre lines don't mean much to him. Since 2018 he has put out five albums and more than a dozen singles on his own label, P+, dragging pop, rock and hip-hop into the same room and letting them scrap it out; experimental pop is the tag that usually sticks.
CHAOS NOW*, in 2022, carried "Pirate Radio", a jittery, fuzzed-up rush that sounds like three different songs fighting over one chorus and somehow all winning. Glimmer of God followed in 2024 with "Darlin'", a warmer, more open-hearted turn, and Rock A Bye Baby, Glimmer of God kept the thread going in 2025 with its title track. Whatever the record, the pull is the same: a restless, shape-shifting songwriter who treats every influence as fair game.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jean Dawson on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pirate Radio | 9 | #6 | – | 2022 | |
| 2 | Rock A Bye Baby | 4 | #13 | – | 2025 | |
| 3 | Darlin' | 2 | #41 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | MENTHOL* | 1 | #38 | – | 2021 | |
| 5 | Prize Fighter | 1 | #667 | – | – | |
| 6 | Sick Of It | 1 | #81 | – | 2023 |
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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