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Jerry Cantrell
Solo artist Tacoma United States
Jerry Cantrell is an artist from Tacoma. Jerry Cantrell has 22 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 1998–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Cut You In”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #45. The station that charted Jerry Cantrell most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Jerry Cantrell founded Alice in Chains, wrote most of their songs and built their sound around the eerie vocal harmonies he stacked with Layne Staley. On his own, the Tacoma-born guitarist trades a little of that Seattle murk for something more twisted and personal, and Boggy Depot, his first solo album, from 1998, gave him "Cut You In", a lurching, sludgy groove with a sneer in its step.
Degradation Trip is the heavier trip. "Anger Rising" and "Angel Eyes", which arrived in 2001 ahead of the full double set, lean into Cantrell's gift for riffs that drag like a heavy chain and melodies that cut straight through the gloom. Metal Hammer crowned him "Riff Lord" in 2006, and Guitar World has ranked him among the greatest heavy metal guitarists of them all.
After Staley's death in 2002, Cantrell became Alice in Chains' lead singer on Black Gives Way to Blue, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and Rainier Fog. The solo records kept coming too, with Brighten in 2021 and I Want Blood in 2024, and his guitar has turned up alongside Heart, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Pantera, Pearl Jam and Deftones.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jerry Cantrell on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut You In | 11 | #45 | – | 1998 | |
| 2 | Anger Rising | 4 | #20 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Vilified | 3 | #16 | – | 2024 | |
| 4 | Angel Eyes | 1 | #85 | – | 2002 | |
| 5 | My Song | 1 | #86 | – | 1998 | |
| 6 | Leave Me Alone | 1 | #955 | – | – | |
| 7 | Brighten | 1 | #98 | – | 2021 |
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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