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Michael Andrews

Solo artist San Diego United States American musician and score composer

Michael Andrews is an artist from San Diego. Michael Andrews has 24 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Mad World”, which appears on 24 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Michael Andrews most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.

24appearances

24countdowns

1songs charted

10stations

0#1 finishes

2004–2025years

Michael Andrews made a hit by taking almost everything away. His version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", recorded with Gary Jules for the Donnie Darko soundtrack and found on Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets in 2001, strips the song down to piano and a voice, slow and hollow-eyed, until the song sounds like it is staring out a rainy window. It went on to become the 2003 UK Christmas number one.

The San Diego multi-instrumentalist, producer and film composer has another life entirely: he helped start The Greyboy Allstars, a soul-jazz outfit from his hometown, and plays with them under the name Elgin Park. "Mad World" showed another side of him: a scorer's ear for space and mood, and the nerve to let silence do most of the work. On the countdowns it has never really gone away.

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

Songs by Michael Andrews on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Mad World	827	24	#6	–	2004

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

2001Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets2 charting songs

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2025	793	Mad World	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2024	113	Mad World	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century
2022	323	Mad World	X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time
2022	1333	Mad World	WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022
2022	454	Mad World	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2019	770	Mad World	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019
2019	770	Mad World	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019
2014	1977	Mad World	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1916	Mad World	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	1863	Mad World	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	1789	Mad World	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	1748	Mad World	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009	566	Mad World	WYEP 913 Essential Songs
2009	352	Mad World	WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade
2008	1733	Mad World	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	1621	Mad World	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005	1924	Mad World	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	60	Mad World	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004
2004	25	Mad World	91X Top 91 Songs of 2004
2004	36	Mad World	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004
2004	19	Mad World	The End Top 77 Songs of 2004
2004	6	Mad World	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004
2004	60	Mad World	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004
2004	1938	Mad World	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)

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