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Jill Sobule
Solo artist Denver United States
Jill Sobule is an artist from Denver. Jill Sobule has 33 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 1995–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Kissed A Girl”, which appears on 20 lists with a best position of #18. The station that charted Jill Sobule most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1995.
Jill Sobule, born in Denver in 1959, had a gift for the three-minute short story, and in 1995 she told two of her best-known ones. "I Kissed a Girl", from her self-titled album, is sly, sweet and cheerfully subversive, and "Supermodel", from the soundtrack to Clueless, bounces along on a hook as bright as a shopping mall.
Her songs are folk-rooted and sharp-eyed, flipping between ironic character sketches and ballads that go straight for the heart, in the spirit of '70s American songwriters like Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin and Randy Newman. Her own life ran through them too: her Jewish heritage and her teenage struggles with anorexia and depression kept surfacing in the lyrics. She recorded for MCA and Atlantic, and also played in Lloyd Cole and the Negatives.
In 2009 she made California Years with money raised entirely from her fans, which put her ahead of the crowdfunding curve. She died on May 1, 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jill Sobule on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Kissed A Girl | 20 | #18 | – | 1995 | |
| 2 | Karen By Night | 3 | #810 | – | – | |
| 3 | Rainy Day Parade | 2 | #668 | – | – | |
| 4 | Cinnamon Park | 2 | #595 | – | – | |
| 5 | I Wanna be a Supermodel | 1 | #59 | – | 1995 | |
| 6 | Mexican Wrestler | 1 | #725 | – | – | |
| 7 | Stone Soul Picnic | 1 | #1591 | – | – | |
| 8 | One Of These Days | 1 | #841 | – | – | |
| 9 | Lucy at the Gym | 1 | #896 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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