Artist · chart history
Matthew Barber
Solo artist Port Credit Canada
Matthew Barber is an artist from Port Credit. Matthew Barber has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2004–2006. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Soft One”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #58. The station that charted Matthew Barber most often is The Bear (Ottawa, ON), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
Matthew Barber grew up in Port Credit, part of Mississauga just west of Toronto, and he learned his trade the scrappy way. Born in 1977, he went to Queen's University in Kingston, where he volunteered at the campus station CFRC-FM, played the campus pubs and put out his debut album, A Thousand Smiles An Hour..., on his own in 1999.
He then went to McMaster University in Hamilton for a master's degree in philosophy, and it was there, with the backing of the small but loyal Hamilton music crowd, that he started taking the music seriously. Means and Ends came out independently in 2002, and Paper Bag Records picked it up and put it out again in 2003. He moved to Toronto after two years in Hamilton.
His songs are indie pop with a pop rock backbone and a dusting of folk and alt-country: "We're Gonna Play", from the 2004 EP The Story of Your Life, is breezy and hooky, and "Soft One", from 2005's Sweet Nothing, slows things down into a warm, aching croon. He has toured with Buck 65, Joel Plaskett, Emm Gryner, BOY and Matt Mays and El Torpedo, and his sister Jill Barber makes music too.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Matthew Barber on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soft One | 1 | #58 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | We're Gonna Play | 1 | #88 | – | 2004 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 58 | Soft One | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006 |
| 2004 | 88 | We're Gonna Play | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2004 |
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