Artist · chart history · #637 in indie & aaa artist polls
Joe Satriani
Solo artist Westbury United States
Joe Satriani is an artist from Westbury. Joe Satriani has 33 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2021. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Satch Boogie”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #225. The station that charted Joe Satriani most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 25 appearances.
Joe Satriani spent the early part of his career teaching guitar, and his students read like a roll call of players who went on to fame: Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, Alex Skolnick, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Andy Timmons, Kevin Cadogan and Charlie Hunter. Then, from the mid-'80s on, the teacher stepped up to the front of the class himself.
Surfing With the Alien, in 1987, is where it catches fire: an instrumental rock record that sings without words, with "Satch Boogie" hurtling along on a turbocharged shuffle and more tricks per bar than seems legal. In 1988 Mick Jagger hired him to play lead on his debut solo tour, and Flying in a Blue Dream followed in 1989, a wider, stranger record that finds room for the swaggering, bluesy "Big Bad Moon", the chugging "One Big Rush" and the spacey "Back to Shallabal". Epic Records was his label.
He briefly toured with Deep Purple in 1993, founded the G3 guitar tour in 1995 and joined the supergroup Chickenfoot in 2008. A 15-time Grammy nominee with more than ten million albums sold, no one playing instrumental rock guitar has ever sold more.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Joe Satriani on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Satch Boogie | 7 | #225 | – | – | |
| 2 | Always With Me, Always With You | 6 | #158 | – | – | |
| 3 | Big Bad Moon | 5 | #242 | – | – | |
| 4 | I Believe | 4 | #447 | – | – | |
| 5 | Summer Song | 2 | #495 | – | – | |
| 6 | One Big Rush | 1 | #589 | – | – | |
| 7 | The Crush Of Love | 3 | #809 | – | – | |
| 8 | Surfing with the Alien | 1 | #825 | – | – | |
| 9 | Back to Shallabal | 1 | #938 | – | – | |
| 10 | Mighty Turtle Head | 1 | #958 | – | – | |
| 11 | Always With Me | 1 | #991 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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