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M. Ward
Solo artist Thousand Oaks United States US singer‐songwriter and guitarist; member of She & Him
M. Ward is an artist from Thousand Oaks. M. Ward has 27 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Never Had Nobody Like You”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted M. Ward most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
M. Ward's Hold Time, out in 2009, is another dispatch from a singer, guitarist and producer who sounds most at home somewhere around the middle of the last century. Matthew Stephen Ward, born in 1973, makes warm, analog records that mix folk and the blues into a dusty Americana, and he has put out 12 studio albums since 1999, most of them on Merge Records.
His voice is a husky murmur, his guitar playing crisp and unhurried, and his records have the grain of old wax. Transfiguration of Vincent, in 2003, carried "Let's Dance"; Hold Time has "Never Had Nobody Like You", a sunny, shuffling number that swings like a jukebox favorite; and More Rain, in 2016, brought "Confession", with its easy, loping pop charm.
He doesn't stay in one lane. Ward is half of the indie pop duo She & Him and a member of the folk-rock supergroup Monsters of Folk, and his work as a producer has earned him a Grammy nomination, alongside plenty of recording and playing on other people's records.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by M. Ward on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never Had Nobody Like You | 10 | #23 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Unreal City | 2 | #35 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | Confession | 2 | #85 | – | 2016 | |
| 4 | Let's Dance | 2 | #233 | – | – | |
| 5 | Chinese Translation | 2 | #472 | – | – | |
| 6 | Girl From Conejo Valley | 2 | #529 | – | – | |
| 7 | Rave On | 1 | #47 | – | 2009 | |
| 8 | Birthday | 1 | #599 | – | – | |
| 9 | Posion Cup | 1 | #120 | – | 2006 | |
| 10 | Big Boat | 1 | #835 | – | – | |
| 11 | Let My Love Open The Door | 1 | #784 | – | – | |
| 12 | Primitive Girl | 1 | #186 | – | 2012 |
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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