Artist · chart history
Jon Batiste
Solo artist Kenner United States
Jon Batiste is an artist from Kenner. Jon Batiste has 66 chart appearances on 40 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2021–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “FREEDOM”, which appears on 19 lists with a best position of #2. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Jon Batiste most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2021.
Jon Batiste is a one-man celebration, a pianist, singer, songwriter, bandleader and producer who treats every genre like a party he's hosting. Born in Kenner in 1986, he became a nightly TV fixture as the bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, leading his band Stay Human there every night from 2015 to 2022.
In 2020 he co-wrote the score for Pixar's Soul with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and the three of them walked away with an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and a BAFTA for it. Then came We Are in 2021, a joyous, sweat-soaked record, and "FREEDOM", with its strutting bounce, became a feel-good anthem, with "I Need You" swinging like a juke-joint throwdown. The album won Album of the Year at the Grammys, part of a haul that now stands at eight Grammys from 25 nominations.
He hasn't slowed down. The documentary American Symphony, in 2023, followed him composing his first symphony, and World Music Radio that year brought "Master Power" and "Calling Your Name". Beethoven Blues in 2024 put his own spin on Beethoven, and he played Billy Preston in the film Saturday Night, scoring it too. BIG MONEY followed in 2025. Whatever he touches, the pulse never quits.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jon Batiste on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FREEDOM | 19 | #2 | – | 2021 | |
| 2 | I Need You | 19 | #1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| 3 | Big Money | 10 | #17 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | Calling Your Name | 8 | #21 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | We Are | 4 | #57 | – | 2021 | |
| 6 | Master Power | 3 | #26 | – | 2023 | |
| 7 | Fur Elise - Batiste | 2 | #30 | – | 2025 | |
| 8 | Uneasy | 1 | #24 | – | 2023 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Jon Batiste 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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