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Jeremy Messersmith
Solo artist Charleston
Jeremy Messersmith is an artist from Charleston. Jeremy Messersmith has 19 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Ghost”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted Jeremy Messersmith most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Jeremy Messersmith makes his records out of Minneapolis, and he makes them small, sweet and a little bit morbid. The Reluctant Graveyard in 2010 set the tone: bright, tuneful songs with a graveyard streak running through titles like "A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard", "Organ Donor", "Violet!" and "Dillinger Eyes". NPR counted it among its top 10 albums of that year.
Heart Murmurs in 2014 took the melodies and made them lusher and more romantic: "It's Only Dancing" sways, "Tourniquet" aches, "Ghost" floats. It's the kind of pop that sounds handmade, all soft voice and careful arrangements, with a wink never far behind the heartbreak. Late Stage Capitalism followed in 2018, with "Purple Hearts".
He has a knack for turning up in unexpected places, too. A Star Wars-themed video for a song called "Tatooine" went viral and got him national attention, and he has opened for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jeremy Messersmith on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghost | 7 | #16 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | It's Only Dancing | 2 | #7 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Tourniquet | 2 | #17 | – | 2013 | |
| 4 | A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard | 2 | #34 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | Violet! | 2 | #35 | – | 2010 | |
| 6 | Purple Hearts | 1 | #58 | – | 2018 | |
| 7 | 666 | 1 | #59 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Dillinger Eyes | 1 | #65 | – | 2010 | |
| 9 | Organ Donor | 1 | #70 | – | 2010 |
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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