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Lily Allen
Solo artist Hammersmith United Kingdom
Lily Allen is an artist from Hammersmith. Lily Allen has 55 chart appearances on 38 radio countdowns from 22 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Fear”, which appears on 17 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Lily Allen most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Lily Allen, born in 1985 and the daughter of actor Keith Allen, signed to Regal Recordings in 2005 and started putting her songs up on Myspace, where they caught enough ears to land her on BBC Radio 1. "Smile", her first proper single in 2006, went to number one in the UK: a sunny, skanking lilt wrapped around a grin with a knife in it. Alright, Still, the debut album that year, piled on the sass with "LDN" and "Alfie", sold over 2.6 million copies and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album.
It's Not Me, It's You swapped the ska bounce for glossy synth-pop and debuted at the top of the UK and Australian charts, with "The Fear", "Not Fair" and "Fuck You" doing the damage, and it won her the Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist in 2010. Sheezus topped the UK chart again in 2014, No Shame followed in 2018, and West End Girl, in 2025, drew broad critical acclaim.
Along the way she hosted her own BBC Three talk show, Lily Allen and Friends, launched the label In the Name Of in 2011, wrote the memoir My Thoughts Exactly, and made her West End stage debut in 2:22 A Ghost Story, earning an Olivier nomination.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Lily Allen on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fear | 17 | #5 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Smile | 14 | #15 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | LDN | 6 | #8 | – | 2008 | |
| 4 | Not Fair | 2 | #8 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Come On Then | 1 | #30 | – | 2019 | |
| 6 | Somewhere Only We Know | 1 | #295 | – | – | |
| 7 | Pussy Palace | 1 | #38 | – | 2025 | |
| 8 | Knock 'Em Out | 1 | #42 | – | 2007 | |
| 9 | West End Girl | 2 | #73 | – | 2025 | |
| 10 | 22 | 1 | #60 | – | 2009 | |
| 11 | Friday Night | 1 | #553 | – | – | |
| 12 | LDN (London) | 2 | #726 | – | – | |
| 13 | Fuck You | 3 | #90 | – | 2008 | |
| 14 | 4chan Stan | 1 | #78 | – | 2025 | |
| 15 | Alfie | 1 | #92 | – | 2006 | |
| 16 | Everything's Just Wonderful | 1 | #93 | – | 2006 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Lily Allen as a guest.
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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