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Matt Nathanson
Solo artist Lexington
Matt Nathanson is an artist from Lexington. Matt Nathanson has 29 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Faster”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Matt Nathanson most often is 88.3 The Sting (Cleveland, OH), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Matt Nathanson, born in 1973, is a singer-songwriter who works the seam between folk and rock and roll, a guy with an acoustic guitar (sometimes a 12-string) who is just as happy plugging into an electric one and letting a full band crash in behind him. He has done it both ways, alone on a stool and with a band at his back.
"Laid" put him on rock radio countdowns in 2003, all hooks and heart-on-sleeve charm. The real breakthrough was "Come On Get Higher", from the 2007 album Some Mad Hope, which went on to sell platinum. Another of his songs, "Giants", later opened ESPN's coverage of the 2016 World Series of Poker, which is about as far from a coffeehouse as a songwriter can travel.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Matt Nathanson on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faster | 8 | #6 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Come On Get Higher | 3 | #14 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Mission Bells | 4 | #7 | – | 2013 | |
| 4 | Room @ the End of the World | 4 | #2 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | All We Are | 2 | #5 | – | 2009 | |
| 6 | Modern Love | 2 | #14 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | Detroit Waves | 1 | #32 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | Run | 1 | #46 | – | 2011 | |
| 9 | Laid | 1 | #59 | – | 2003 | |
| 10 | Gold in the Summertime | 1 | #69 | – | 2015 | |
| 11 | German Cars | 1 | #81 | – | 2022 | |
| 12 | Impossible People | 1 | #86 | – | 2025 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Matt Nathanson 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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