Artist · chart history
Macy Gray
Solo artist Canton United States American singer and actor
Macy Gray is an artist from Canton. Macy Gray has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Try”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted Macy Gray most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1999.
Macy Gray, born in Canton, Ohio in 1967, arrived in 1999 with a voice like sandpaper dipped in honey, a raspy, slurring instrument that owes plenty to Billie Holiday. "I Try" was the breakthrough, a single that climbed to number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and won her the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and it paved the road for her debut album, On How Life Is, the same year.
That record is a strange, wonderful soul-and-R&B bazaar, and "Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak" shows the weirder, funkier side of it, the side that doesn't care whether you're comfortable. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, too.
Ten studio albums have come since, along with sales past 25 million records by 2018 and roles in films such as Training Day, Spider-Man and For Colored Girls. In 2014 her hometown welcomed her into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Macy Gray on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Macy Gray as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 471 | I Try | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century |
| 2023 | 265 | I Try | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s |
| 2022 | 667 | I Try | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s |
| 2021 | 475 | I Try | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s |
| 2019 | 477 | Over You | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 477 | Over You | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2010 | 76 | Kissed It | WFIV Top 105 of 2010 |
| 1999 | 24 | I Try | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999 |
| 1999 | 92 | Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999 |
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