Artist · chart history · #123 in alternative artist polls · #293 in indie & aaa artist polls
Moby
Solo artist Harlem United States electronic musician Richard Melville Hall
Moby is an artist from Harlem. Moby has 236 chart appearances on 138 radio countdowns from 44 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Southside”, which appears on 61 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted Moby most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 36 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
Moby, born Richard Melville Hall in 1965, was playing guitar and piano by 9 and spent the '80s in underground punk bands, among them the Vatican Commandos, Flipper and Ultra Vivid Scene, before dance music grabbed him. He moved to New York City in 1989 and became a busy DJ, producer and remixer, and "Go" broke him into the mainstream, especially in Europe, where it went top 10 in the Netherlands and the UK. From 1992 to 1997 he racked up 8 top-10 hits on Billboard's dance club chart, "Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)" and "Feeling So Real" among them.
Everything Is Wrong, in 1995, won the critics over, and then he swerved: Animal Rights, in 1996, was a punk record, "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" and all, and it drove away a lot of his audience. Play, in 1999, barely made a ripple at first, then turned into a worldwide hit in 2000 and went on to sell 12 million copies. It is a melancholy, late-night record, all hushed pianos, loping beats and aching voices, and the singles kept coming: "Porcelain", "Natural Blues", "Bodyrock", "Honey", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" and "South Side", which, with Gwen Stefani singing, reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
He has refused to sit still since. 18, in 2002, brought "We Are All Made of Stars" and "Extreme Ways", followed by Hotel, Last Night, Wait for Me, Destroyed and Innocents, with "The Perfect Life". He went back to punk with The Void Pacific Choir, and after a 2018 show with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon invited him to make Reprise, reworking his old tracks with the Budapest Art Orchestra and new singers; it charted in 16 countries in 2021. Long stretches of ambient music have come in between.
Away from the studio, he is known for his veganism and his work for animal rights and humanitarian causes, founded Little Walnut Productions in 2020 and has written 4 books, including the memoirs Porcelain and Then It Fell Apart. He has sold 20 million records, and on the countdowns "Southside" is the one that still glows.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Moby on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southside | 61 | #7 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Porcelain | 36 | #7 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Natural Blues | 34 | #10 | – | 2000 | |
| 4 | Bodyrock | 23 | #23 | – | 1999 | |
| 5 | We Are All Made of Stars | 18 | #31 | – | 2002 | |
| 6 | Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? | 10 | #79 | – | 2001 | |
| 7 | Pale Horses | 6 | #14 | – | 2009 | |
| 8 | The Perfect Life | 4 | #28 | – | 2013 | |
| 9 | Beautiful | 5 | #78 | – | 2005 | |
| 10 | Extreme Ways | 5 | #32 | – | 2002 | |
| 11 | Honey | 3 | #11 | – | 1999 | |
| 12 | Lift Me Up | 2 | #216 | – | – | |
| 13 | That's When I Reach For My Revolver | 5 | #92 | – | 1997 | |
| 14 | Go | 3 | #509 | – | – | |
| 15 | Alice | 1 | #29 | – | 2008 | |
| 16 | This Wild Darkness | 1 | #21 | – | 2018 | |
| 17 | Wait For Me | 3 | #57 | – | 2009 | |
| 18 | Falling Rain & Light | 1 | #41 | – | 2019 | |
| 19 | All That I Need Is To Be Loved | 1 | #510 | – | – | |
| 20 | My Only Love | 1 | #43 | – | 2021 | |
| 21 | James Bond Theme | 1 | #64 | – | 1997 | |
| 22 | In This World | 1 | #79 | – | 2002 | |
| 23 | Mistake | 1 | #80 | – | 2009 | |
| 24 | Feeling So Real | 1 | #843 | – | – | |
| 25 | Run On | 1 | #88 | – | 1999 | |
| 26 | After | 1 | #99 | – | 2011 |
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.
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