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John Grant
Solo artist Buchanan United States US singer‐songwriter
John Grant is an artist from Buchanan. John Grant has 8 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Disappointing”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #42. The station that charted John Grant most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
John Grant, born in Buchanan in 1968, spent years as the voice, the piano player and the main songwriter of the Czars, the alternative rock band he co-founded. After six albums, the last of them in 2006, the band split, and Grant walked away from music entirely for four years.
The comeback was worth the wait. His first solo record, Queen of Denmark, was named the best album of 2010 in one critics' poll, and Pale Green Ghosts, the 2013 follow-up on Bella Union, got the same honour from Rough Trade. That record is where "GMF" lives, a swaggering, self-lacerating strut that's funny and wounded in the same breath.
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, in 2015, drew rave reviews and climbed to No. 5 on the UK albums chart, with "Disappointing" among its highlights, and Love Is Magic went top 20 there in 2018. He has kept going since with Boy from Michigan and The Art of the Lie, and in 2014 he re-staged songs from his first two albums with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. He holds both American and Icelandic citizenship, and his list of collaborators runs from Elbow, Goldfrapp and Kylie Minogue to Sinead O'Connor and Tracey Thorn. Since 2018 he has also fronted Creep Show, a side project with the band Wrangler.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by John Grant on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disappointing | 3 | #42 | – | 2015 | |
| 2 | GMF (Greatest Living Creature) | 2 | #20 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Pale Green Ghosts | 1 | #212 | – | – | |
| 4 | Love is Magic | 1 | #40 | – | 2018 | |
| 5 | God's Gonna Cut You Down | 1 | #776 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with John Grant as a guest.
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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