Artist · chart history
Kon Kan
Solo artist Toronto Canada
Kon Kan is an artist from Toronto. Kon Kan has 7 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2003. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Beg Your Pardon”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #13. The station that charted Kon Kan most often is WLIR / WDRE (Long Island, NY), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
Kon Kan was really one man, Barry Harris, who dreamed up the project in Toronto in 1988 and made dance-floor pop out of synthesizers and a healthy dose of cheek. The sound sits somewhere between synth-pop, Hi-NRG and house, glossy and bouncy and built for the club.
"I Beg Your Pardon" was the big one, a pop confection with a thumping beat and a bright, playful hook, and it won the Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year in 1990. Harris came back for more with "Puss N' Boots/These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", which got him another Juno nomination in the same category the following year. The records came out through Atlantic, and "I Beg Your Pardon" in particular has hung around the countdowns for years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kon Kan on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Beg Your Pardon | 6 | #13 | – | 1988 | |
| 2 | Puss In Boots | 1 | #68 | – | 1989 |
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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