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Marc Cohn

Solo artist Cleveland United States

Marc Cohn is an artist from Cleveland. Marc Cohn has 27 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Walking in Memphis”, which appears on 23 lists with a best position of #53. The station that charted Marc Cohn most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 8 appearances.

27appearances

25countdowns

4songs charted

7stations

0#1 finishes

1999–2026years

Marc Cohn, a Cleveland kid born in 1959, walked into 1991 with a self-titled debut on Atlantic and a song that did all the talking for him. "Walking in Memphis" went top 40, and the Grammy voters liked it enough to put it up for Song of the Year, plus a Best Pop Vocal nod, at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards. In a year when everybody else was cranking the distortion, here was a guy with a grown-up voice and the patience of an old soul man.

The folk-rock tag only tells half of it. Cohn's music is soaked in rhythm and blues, soul and gospel, and he writes like a short-story man, pulling ordinary moments of love, faith and heartbreak out of real life and setting them to melody. "Silver Thunderbird" and "True Companion" followed "Walking in Memphis" off the debut, and the Grammys named him Best New Artist in 1992. "Walk Through the World" kept him on the charts in 1993.

On rock radio's countdowns, though, it all comes back to Memphis: that's the one listeners keep calling for.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Marc Cohn on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Walking in Memphis	1,161	23	#53	–	–
2	Silver Thunderbird	86	1	#126	–	–
3	True Companion	19	1	#718	–	–
4	Listening to Levon	3	1	#884	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1991Marc Cohn3 charting songs

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2026	194	Walking in Memphis	WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time
2024	173	Walking in Memphis	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2023	720	Walking in Memphis	WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023
2023	53	Walking in Memphis	The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places
2021	494	Walking in Memphis	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2020	455	Walking in Memphis	WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2019	110	Walking in Memphis	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2019	110	Walking in Memphis	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019
2014	764	Walking in Memphis	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014)
2012	88	Walking in Memphis	WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown
2010	126	Silver Thunderbird	WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010)
2010	256	Walking in Memphis	WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010)
2009	95	Walking in Memphis	WYEP 913 Essential Songs
2009	884	Listening to Levon	WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade
2009	429	Walking in Memphis	WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009)
2006	264	Walking in Memphis	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006)
2006	729	Artist ranking	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006)
2005	418	Walking in Memphis	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	123	Walking in Memphis	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004)
2004	343	Walking in Memphis	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004	718	True Companion	WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004)
2002	1872	Walking in Memphis	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	1887	Walking in Memphis	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	399	Walking in Memphis	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	1590	Walking in Memphis	WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time
2000	1883	Walking in Memphis	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	1882	Walking in Memphis	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)

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