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Jon Astley
Solo artist Manchester United Kingdom
Jon Astley is an artist from Manchester. Jon Astley has 14 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2003. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Jane's Getting Serious”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #52. The station that charted Jon Astley most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1987.
Jon Astley, born in 1951, spent most of his career on the other side of the glass, and his fingerprints are all over some very famous records. He co-produced the Who's Who Are You with Glyn Johns in 1978, went on to oversee the remastering of the band's entire back catalog, produced albums for Eric Clapton, Barclay James Harvest, Corey Hart and Deborah Harry, and mastered records for everyone from ABBA and Led Zeppelin to Tori Amos and Van Morrison.
In the late '80s he stepped up to the microphone himself for 2 albums as a singer-songwriter. Everyone Loves the Pilot (Except the Crew), in 1987, brought "Jane's Getting Serious", a bright, bouncy slice of studio-polished pop rock that became his most successful song and found a second life in a Heinz ketchup commercial with Matt LeBlanc, years before Friends. The Compleat Angler followed in 1988 with "Been There, Done That" and "Put This Love to the Test", and after that the producer's chair and the mastering room claimed him again.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jon Astley on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jane's Getting Serious | 12 | #52 | – | 1987 | |
| 2 | Been There, Done That | 1 | #68 | – | 1988 | |
| 3 | Put this Love to the Test | 1 | #89 | – | 1988 |
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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