Artist · chart history
Josie Cotton
Solo artist Dallas United States
Josie Cotton is an artist from Dallas. Josie Cotton has 7 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1981–2006. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Johnny Are You Queer?”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Josie Cotton most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1981.
Josie Cotton, born Josie Jones in 1956, made the kind of new wave that sounded like a Phil Spector girl group had wandered into a skinny-tie club. Her album Convertible Music arrived in 1982, all bright, bouncing beat and sugar-rush hooks, and it carried "Johnny Are You Queer?", a cheeky, handclapping pop number with a grin on its face.
"Johnny Are You Queer?" and "He Could Be the One" both landed on the Valley Girl soundtrack in 1983, and the first came back again in 2006 on Jackass Number Two, which tells you how well its bratty, candy-coated sound has held up. "Jimmy Loves Maryanne" is another of her tunes that turned up on the countdowns.
Her story on rock radio is short and sharp, but that one song has never quite let go of the listeners who first heard it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Josie Cotton on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Are You Queer? | 6 | #5 | – | 1981 | |
| 2 | Jimmy Loves Maryanne | 1 | #424 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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