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Marilyn Manson
Band Fort Lauderdale United States Formed 1989 the band
Marilyn Manson formed in 1989 in Fort Lauderdale, United States. Marilyn Manson has 163 chart appearances on 116 radio countdowns from 40 stations on RockLists, spanning 1995–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Beautiful People”, which appears on 41 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Marilyn Manson most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 21 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.
Marilyn Manson started in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1989, when the singer who took that name teamed up with guitarist Daisy Berkowitz. Early on they were Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids, and their theatrical shows built a cult following around South Florida. The naming rule said it all: until 1996, every member put a female sex symbol's first name together with a male serial killer's surname, which is how you get Madonna Wayne Gacy on keyboards and Ginger Fish on drums, alongside Jeordie White on bass and guitar and, later, Zim Zum and John 5 on guitar.
In 1993 they became the first act signed to Trent Reznor's Nothing Records, and the Smells Like Children EP in 1995, with its slow, sinister "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", set up Antichrist Superstar in 1996. "The Beautiful People" is the monster here, a grinding, lockstep industrial metal stomp, and the album went platinum. The makeup, costumes and deliberately shocking antics made them a lightning rod: protests and petitions got shows blocked, and at least 3 US states passed laws to keep them out of state-owned venues.
Mechanical Animals in 1998 swapped in glam sparkle for "The Dope Show", and it went platinum too. In 1999 the news media wrongly blamed the band for the Columbine High School massacre, and the mainstream heat slowly cooled through the 2000s, even as Holy Wood, "Disposable Teens", "Tainted Love", "Mobscene" and "Personal Jesus" kept coming. Two of their US releases hit number one, and sales have passed 50 million records.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Marilyn Manson on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Beautiful People | 41 | #1 | 1 | 1996 | |
| 2 | Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | 26 | #3 | – | 1996 | |
| 3 | The Dope Show | 25 | #20 | – | 1998 | |
| 4 | Personal Jesus | 16 | #16 | – | 2004 | |
| 5 | Disposable Teens | 12 | #67 | – | 2000 | |
| 6 | Kill4me | 4 | #17 | – | 2017 | |
| 7 | Deep Six | 2 | #8 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | Mobscene | 3 | #45 | – | 2003 | |
| 9 | No Reflection | 2 | #7 | – | 2012 | |
| 10 | I Don't Like The Drugs, But The Drugs Like Me | 4 | #67 | – | 1999 | |
| 11 | Beautiful | 1 | #2 | – | 1997 | |
| 12 | We Are Chaos | 1 | #7 | – | 2020 | |
| 13 | Dope Show | 1 | #11 | – | 1998 | |
| 14 | Tourniquet | 1 | #34 | – | 1997 | |
| 15 | The Horrible People | 1 | #42 | – | 1997 | |
| 16 | Tainted Love | 2 | #48 | – | 2001 | |
| 17 | Tained Love | 1 | #57 | – | 2001 | |
| 18 | Golden Years | 1 | #62 | – | 1998 | |
| 19 | Armageddon | 4 | #49 | – | 2009 | |
| 20 | Heart-Shaped Glasses | 2 | #81 | – | 2007 | |
| 21 | Dope Hat | 1 | #38 | – | 1995 | |
| 22 | Dance of the Dope Hats | 1 | #830 | – | – | |
| 23 | Four Rusted Horses | 1 | #43 | – | 2009 | |
| 24 | Don't Chase the Dead | 1 | #84 | – | 2020 | |
| 25 | As Sick as the Secrets Within | 1 | #88 | – | 2024 | |
| 26 | Lunchbox | 1 | #48 | – | 1995 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Marilyn Manson 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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