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Mazzy Star

Band Santa Monica United States Formed 1988

Mazzy Star formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, United States. Mazzy Star has 81 chart appearances on 67 radio countdowns from 26 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Fade Into You”, which appears on 65 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Mazzy Star most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 21 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1994.

81appearances
67countdowns
5songs charted
26stations
0#1 finishes
1993–2026years

Mazzy Star rose out of Santa Monica from what was left of Opal. When Kendra Smith walked out of that band, David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval took over the vocals, and the partnership that followed never really changed shape: Sandoval wrote the words, Roback wrote most of the music, and Keith Mitchell, the drummer who had come over from Opal, kept the pulse slow enough to hear the dust settle.

She Hangs Brightly arrived in 1990 with "Halah", a sighing, reverb-soaked ballad, but So Tonight That I Might See, in 1993, is where the spell really took hold. "Fade Into You" is dream pop at its most narcotic, guitars that seem to melt as they play and Sandoval barely lifting her voice above a murmur, the whole thing hanging in the air like late-afternoon heat. It became their biggest mainstream hit, MTV and VH1 caught on, radio followed, and the album went platinum in 1995.

Among My Swan came in 1996, and then a long silence before Seasons of Your Day in 2013. Mitchell died of cancer in 2017, and the 2018 EP Still was dedicated to him and to stage manager Tom Cashen. Roback died of cancer in 2020, which left Sandoval and Suki Ewers as the last surviving members of the original lineup.

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

Songs by Mazzy Star on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 Fade Into You
3,932		 65 #4 – 1994
2 Halah
362		 13 #73 – 1994
3 Seasons Of Your Day
79		 1 #28 – 2014
4 Rhymes Of An Hour
65		 1 #718 – –
5 Common Burn
13		 1 #113 – 2014

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.

93 94 14

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2026 112 Fade Into You WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time
2025 4 Fade Into You WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s
2024 201 Fade Into You WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2023 84 Fade Into You WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023
2023 323 Fade Into You 105.9 The X July 420 (2023)
2023 908 Fade Into You 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time
2023 10 Fade Into You The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2023 857 Halah The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2022 35 Fade Into You KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)
2022 342 Fade Into You 105.9 The X July 420 (2022)
2022 779 Fade Into You The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time
2022 61 Fade Into You The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2022 773 Halah The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2021 340 Fade Into You 105.9 The X July 420 (2021)
2021 646 Fade Into You 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2020 310 Fade Into You 105.9 The X July 420 (2020)
2020 718 Rhymes Of An Hour WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2019 52 Fade Into You KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time
2019 156 Fade Into You WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2019 156 Fade Into You WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019
2019 68 Fade Into You X96's Top 100 Songs of the 90's
2018 247 Fade Into You The Current's 893 Essential Songs
2014 28 Seasons Of Your Day WBER Listener Countdown 2014
2014 113 Common Burn WBER Listener Countdown 2014
2014 516 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014 685 Fade Into You WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014)
2013 511 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011 502 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010 487 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009 316 Fade Into You Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009)
2009 487 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009 68 Fade Into You WYEP 913 Essential Songs
2009 575 Fade Into You WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009)
2008 309 Fade Into You KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008)
2008 490 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007 475 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007 341 Fade Into You WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time
2007 636 Halah WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time
2007 196 Fade Into You KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)
2006 155 Fade Into You KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)
2006 293 Fade Into You Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006)
2006 197 Fade Into You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2006)
2006 106 Fade Into You The End Top 107 Songs of the '90s (December 2006)
2005 241 Fade Into You WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2005)
2005 273 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 1264 Halah CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 461 Fade Into You 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2004 325 Fade Into You The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)
2004 281 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 1264 Halah CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003 281 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 1263 Halah CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002 281 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 1278 Halah CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 719 Fade Into You Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001 281 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1279 Halah CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1448 Fade Into You WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time
2001 220 Fade Into You WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001)
2000 319 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 1278 Halah CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999 211 Fade Into You 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999)
1999 700 Fade Into You Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 910 Halah Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 230 Fade Into You WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999)
1999 283 Fade Into You The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 323 Fade Into You CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 1277 Halah CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 166 Fade Into You KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999)
1999 173 Fade Into You WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)
1995 185 Fade Into You KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1994 18 Fade Into You KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994
1994 79 Halah KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994
1994 22 Fade Into You 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994
1994 73 Halah 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994
1994 30 Fade Into You Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994
1994 25 Fade Into You John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1994
1994 32 Fade Into You Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994
1994 35 Fade Into You Radio & Records Top 94 Songs of 1994
1994 434 Fade Into You Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994)
1993 94 Fade Into You Live 105 Top 105 Songs of 1993

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