Artist · chart history · #232 in indie & aaa artist polls
Jonatha Brooke
Solo artist Illinois United States
Jonatha Brooke is an artist from Illinois. Jonatha Brooke has 16 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Linger”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #321. The station that charted Jonatha Brooke most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
Jonatha Brooke, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in 1964, had been writing and performing since the late 1980s by the time Steady Pull arrived in 2001, and there's no wasted motion in it. She sings, plays guitar and sits down at the electric piano, and her songs live right where folk, rock and pop overlap: acoustic roots with a pop sheen, and words that land with more weight than the easygoing tunes let on.
The harmonies are the giveaway. Brooke likes her vocal parts knotted and intricate, the kind of thing most pop writers wouldn't bother with, and she makes them sound like the most natural thing in the world. Steady Pull carries the title track and "Linger", and her songs have also found their way into television shows and films, which suits music this good at setting a mood.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jonatha Brooke on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linger | 2 | #321 | – | – | |
| 2 | Theres More True Lovers Than One | 2 | #50 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | West Point | 1 | #818 | – | – | |
| 4 | Blood From a Stone | 1 | #894 | – | – | |
| 5 | Crumbs | 1 | #413 | – | – | |
| 6 | Where Were You? | 1 | #1008 | – | – | |
| 7 | Better After All | 1 | #593 | – | – | |
| 8 | My Sweet and Bitter Bowl | 1 | #624 | – | – | |
| 9 | Careful What You Wish For | 1 | #80 | – | 2007 | |
| 10 | Nothing Sacred | 1 | #755 | – | – | |
| 11 | Midnight Hallelujah | 1 | #1028 | – | – | |
| 12 | Because I Told You So | 1 | #471 | – | – | |
| 13 | Steady Pull | 1 | #860 | – | – |
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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