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Julian Cope

Solo artist Deri, Caerphilly United Kingdom

Julian Cope is an artist from Deri, Caerphilly. Julian Cope has 41 chart appearances on 29 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2019. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “World Shut Your Mouth”, which appears on 24 lists with a best position of #45. The station that charted Julian Cope most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 21 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.

41appearances
29countdowns
6songs charted
8stations
0#1 finishes
1987–2019years

Julian Cope served his first tour of duty singing and writing for the Teardrop Explodes, the Liverpool post-punk band, and since 1983 he has been out on his own, following his muse wherever it wandered. Fried, in 1984, sounds wonderfully unmoored, a hazy, homespun record with "Sunspots" glinting in the middle of it.

Saint Julian, in 1987, snapped him into focus: "World Shut Your Mouth" and "Trampoline" are big, bright, strutting rock songs with hooks you could hang a coat on. My Nation Underground followed in 1988 with "Charlotte Anne" and "5 O'Clock World", and the Beautiful Love EP kept him in the countdowns into the '90s.

Music is only half the story. Cope has written 2 volumes of autobiography, Head-On and Repossessed; The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic European, on Neolithic culture and archaeology; and 3 books of musicology, Krautrocksampler, Japrocksampler and Copendium, a guide to the musical underground. He has also run side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor and Black Sheep, and makes no secret of his interest in paganism and the occult.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Julian Cope on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 World Shut Your Mouth
1,082		 24 #45 – 1987
2 Charlotte Anne
210		 6 #46 – 1988
3 Beautiful Love
200		 8 #69 – 1991
4 Trampoline
50		 1 #1028 – –
5 5 O'Clock World
39		 1 #1232 – –
6 Sunspots
26		 1 #1505 – –

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.

87 88 91

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2019 1071 World Shut Your Mouth WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2014 1795 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013 1751 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011 1687 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010 1621 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009 1585 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008 1578 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007 1619 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005 453 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 1505 Beautiful Love CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004 451 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 1507 Beautiful Love CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003 451 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 1507 Beautiful Love CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 538 World Shut Your Mouth Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003 872 Charlotte Anne Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003 1028 Trampoline Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003 1505 Sunspots Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002 451 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 1503 Beautiful Love CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 380 World Shut Your Mouth Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002 1232 5 O'Clock World Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002 1814 Charlotte Anne Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001 451 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1505 Beautiful Love CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000 450 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 1498 Beautiful Love CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999 361 World Shut Your Mouth WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999)
1999 450 World Shut Your Mouth CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 1498 Beautiful Love CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1996 433 World Shut Your Mouth WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996)
1994 435 World Shut Your Mouth WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994)
1991 69 Beautiful Love 91X Top 91 Songs of 1991
1991 275 World Shut Your Mouth WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991)
1989 93 World Shut Your Mouth WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989)
1988 46 Charlotte Anne KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988
1988 75 Charlotte Anne 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988
1988 74 Charlotte Anne Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988
1988 66 Charlotte Anne WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988
1987 74 World Shut Your Mouth 91X Top 91 Songs of 1987
1987 45 World Shut Your Mouth Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987

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