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Moxy Fruvous
Band Thornhill Canada Active 1990–2000
Moxy Fruvous formed in 1990 in Thornhill, Canada and was active until 2000. Moxy Fruvous has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1992–2016. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “King of Spain”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Moxy Fruvous most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1996.
Moxy Früvous came out of Thornhill, Ontario, a folk-pop band that treated political satire as a contact sport. Mike Ford, Murray Foster, Jian Ghomeshi and David Matheson made up the lineup, and their songs kept circling back to Canada itself and to the wider "human experience", usually with a grin and a few sharp elbows.
Their self-titled EP arrived in 1992 on Warner Music Canada and carried "King of Spain", which got onto rock radio, which a band this willfully odd had no business pulling off. Folk, comedy and pointed commentary all at once: it's a mix that shouldn't work on the radio, and for a while it did.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Moxy Fruvous on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King of Spain | 2 | #2 | – | 1996 | |
| 2 | Get In The Car | 2 | #99 | – | 1997 | |
| 3 | My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors | 1 | #500 | – | – | |
| 4 | Splatter Splatter | 1 | #72 | – | 1999 | |
| 5 | Half As Much | 1 | #83 | – | 1999 | |
| 6 | Heetseeker Boy | 1 | #84 | – | 2000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 139 | Get In The Car | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 |
| 2009 | 500 | My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2006 | 751 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2000 | 84 | Heetseeker Boy | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 |
| 1999 | 72 | Splatter Splatter | WBER Listener Countdown 1999 |
| 1999 | 83 | Half As Much | WBER Listener Countdown 1999 |
| 1997 | 99 | Get In The Car | WBER Listener Countdown 1997 |
| 1996 | 2 | King of Spain | WBER Listener Countdown 1996 |
| 1992 | 55 | King of Spain | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992 |
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