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Marc Almond
Solo artist Southport United Kingdom English pop singer and songwriter
Marc Almond is an artist from Southport. Marc Almond has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2003. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Tears Run Rings”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #13. The station that charted Marc Almond most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
Marc Almond, born in Southport in 1957, first hit the big time as the voice of Soft Cell, the synth-pop duo whose 1981 hit "Tainted Love" became one of the defining records of new wave. When Soft Cell split in 1984 he went his own way, having also fronted side ventures such as Marc and the Mambas, and built a solo career out of pop, cabaret and electronics, all of it fronted by that voice: soulful, trembling and theatrical, with an androgynous image to match.
The Stars We Are in 1988 is his most sweeping pop record, and "Tears Run Rings" is its lush, heart-on-sleeve centerpiece, a swooning, big-hearted song that plays his torch-singer instincts off against a glossy production. A year later came the duet with Gene Pitney on "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart", which went to number one in the UK.
He has never sat still since, working with Jools Holland, Nico and Siouxsie Sioux, and wandering from torch songs to Russian folk music, with sales past 30 million records. A motorcycle accident in 2004 left him in a coma for a month, and he later became a patron of the brain injury charity Headway. In 2018 he was made an OBE for services to arts and culture.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Marc Almond on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tears Run Rings | 6 | #13 | – | 1988 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 593 | Tears Run Rings | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) |
| 1989 | 200 | Tears Run Rings | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) |
| 1988 | 13 | Tears Run Rings | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988 |
| 1988 | 18 | Tears Run Rings | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988 |
| 1988 | 31 | Tears Run Rings | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988 |
| 1988 | 64 | Tears Run Rings | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988 |
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