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Joseph Arthur
Solo artist Akron
Joseph Arthur is an artist from Akron. Joseph Arthur has 26 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Honey And The Moon”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted Joseph Arthur most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
Joseph Arthur came out of Akron, Ohio, and the man who found him was Peter Gabriel, who signed him in the mid-'90s as the first North American act on his Real World label. Big City Secrets came in 1997 and Come to Where I'm From in 2000, and by the time of Redemption's Son in 2002 Arthur had moved on to the independents, carrying his songs from label to label with the stubbornness of a lifer.
The songs are the draw: confessional, bruised and hymn-like, with "Honey and the Moon" drifting along like a lullaby with a pulse. Live, he's a one-man weather system, building songs out of loop and distortion pedals, and his shows are recorded straight off the soundboard and put on disc for fans the moment the lights come up. He paints, too; his artwork has graced every one of his releases, and the sleeve for his 1999 EP Vacancy earned a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package.
Our Shadows Will Remain followed in 2004. In 2006 he started his own label, Lonely Astronaut Records, and made two albums with a band called the Lonely Astronauts before going solo again with The Graduation Ceremony in 2011. He has also played in Fistful of Mercy and RNDM.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Joseph Arthur on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honey And The Moon | 7 | #7 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | Saints of Impossible Causes | 7 | #17 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | In the Sun | 3 | #170 | – | – | |
| 4 | Can't Exist | 2 | #75 | – | 2005 | |
| 5 | Even Tho | 3 | #71 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | Over The Sun | 1 | #47 | – | 2011 | |
| 7 | Walk on the Wild Side | 1 | #87 | – | 2014 | |
| 8 | Rise | 1 | #89 | – | 2025 |
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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