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My Bloody Valentine
Band Dublin Ireland Formed 1983 Irish shoegaze band
My Bloody Valentine formed in 1983 in Dublin, Ireland. My Bloody Valentine has 32 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Only Shallow”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #44. The station that charted My Bloody Valentine most often is John Peel (BBC Radio 1), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
My Bloody Valentine started in Dublin in 1983, founded by singer and guitarist Kevin Shields and drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig, and spent years getting nowhere through a string of lineup changes before Debbie Googe came in on bass in 1985, followed by Bilinda Butcher, who sang and played guitar, in 1987. Then, in 1988, they signed to Creation, and everything changed.
"You Made Me Realise" and Isn't Anything, with "Feed Me With Your Kiss", came that year, and the sound was like nothing else: guitars warped and smeared until they shimmer and roar at once, and Shields and Butcher's voices sunk so deep in the mix they turn into another instrument, hushed and hard to tell apart. The Glider EP and "Soon" in 1990 brought in a woozy dance pulse, and the Tremolo EP and "To Here Knows When" pushed the haze further still. Loveless, in 1991, with "Only Shallow" and "When You Sleep", is where it all adds up, the landmark that sealed their place as pioneers of shoegaze. It cost so much to make that Creation dropped them afterward.
They signed to Island in 1992 but went quiet, and by 1997 everyone had left. The band reunited in 2007, and m b v, the long-awaited third album, finally arrived in 2013 to glowing reviews.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by My Bloody Valentine on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only Shallow | 15 | #44 | – | – | |
| 2 | Soon | 8 | #2 | – | 1990 | |
| 3 | When You Sleep | 3 | #342 | – | – | |
| 4 | You Made Me Realise | 2 | #6 | – | 1988 | |
| 5 | Feed Me With Your Kiss | 2 | #17 | – | 1988 | |
| 6 | To Here Knows When | 1 | #37 | – | 1991 |
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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