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John Wesley Harding

Solo artist Hastings United Kingdom

John Wesley Harding is an artist from Hastings. John Wesley Harding has 22 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2011. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Like A Prayer”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #894. The station that charted John Wesley Harding most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.

22appearances

11countdowns

5songs charted

4stations

0#1 finishes

1999–2011years

John Wesley Harding is the stage name; the man behind it is Wesley Stace, an English folk-pop singer-songwriter born in Hastings in 1965, who writes sharp, wordy songs with one foot in the coffee house and the other in the pop charts.

Sire picked him up, and in 1989 he put out God Made Me Do It- The Christmas EP, whose "Like A Prayer" became his most-played track on the countdowns. Here Comes the Groom followed in 1990, carrying "Cathy's New Clown", and "The World And All It's Problems" kept a small band of listeners loyal well after the fact.

Songs were never going to be enough for him. Under his own name he has since written four novels, taught the occasional university course and curated Wesley Stace's Cabinet of Wonders, which feels like the natural home for a man this restless.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by John Wesley Harding on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Like A Prayer	377	7	#894	–	–
2	Cathy's New Clown	357	7	#941	–	–
3	Top of the Bottom	51	2	#76	–	2009
4	The World And All It's Problems	36	4	#1816	–	–
5	There's A Starbucks Where The Starbucks Used To Be	2	1	#92	–	2011

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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Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2011	92	There's A Starbucks Where The Starbucks Used To Be	WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011
2009	76	Top of the Bottom	WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2009
2009	628	Top of the Bottom	WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade
2006	797	Artist ranking	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006)
2005	921	Like A Prayer	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	984	Cathy's New Clown	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	920	Like A Prayer	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004	984	Cathy's New Clown	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	920	Like A Prayer	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	984	Cathy's New Clown	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	935	Like A Prayer	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	999	Cathy's New Clown	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	1816	The World And All It's Problems	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	935	Like A Prayer	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	999	Cathy's New Clown	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	1829	The World And All It's Problems	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	945	Like A Prayer	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000	992	Cathy's New Clown	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000	1825	The World And All It's Problems	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	894	Like A Prayer	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	941	Cathy's New Clown	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	1823	The World And All It's Problems	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)

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