Artist · chart history · #158 in alternative artist polls
Jesus Jones
Band Bradford on Avon United Kingdom Formed 1988
Jesus Jones formed in 1988 in Bradford on Avon, United Kingdom. Jesus Jones has 129 chart appearances on 66 radio countdowns from 21 stations on RockLists, spanning 1989–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Right Here, Right Now”, which appears on 58 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Jesus Jones most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 64 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1991.
Jesus Jones came out of Bradford-on-Avon, a small town in Wiltshire, signed to Food Records, and from the first blast of Liquidizer in 1989 they sounded like a band that couldn't sit still. Mike Edwards, Iain Baker, Jerry De Borg, Alan Doughty and Gen packed their songs with noise, hooks and nervous energy, and "Info Freako", "Move Mountains" and "Never Enough" came at you like somebody flipping channels at top speed.
Doubt, in 1991, is where it all clicked. "Right Here, Right Now" is the one everybody knows: a big, bright, wide-eyed single that went around the world and then kept going, licensed for ads and promotions all over the globe long after its moment. It earned a Grammy nomination, and so did the album. Around it Doubt stacked up more quick, catchy singles in "International Bright Young Thing", "Real, Real, Real" and "Welcome Back Victoria", every one of them bursting with the same restless optimism.
Perverse followed in 1993, a harder, more jagged record carrying "The Devil You Know" and "The Right Decision". It never matched the reach of Doubt, but on rock radio's countdowns the songs from that bright young stretch still turn up, a snapshot of a band that believed the future was arriving by the minute.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jesus Jones on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right Here, Right Now | 58 | #3 | – | 1991 | |
| 2 | International Bright Young Thing | 23 | #11 | – | 1991 | |
| 3 | Real, Real, Real | 10 | #13 | – | 1991 | |
| 4 | Move Mountains | 8 | #76 | – | 1990 | |
| 5 | Never Enough | 7 | #802 | – | – | |
| 6 | Info Freako | 4 | #32 | – | 1989 | |
| 7 | The Devil You Know | 8 | #89 | – | 1993 | |
| 8 | Welcome Back Victoria | 8 | #86 | – | 1991 | |
| 9 | The Right Decision | 1 | #93 | – | 1993 | |
| 10 | Are You Satisfied? | 1 | #1978 | – | – |
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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