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Nicole Atkins
Solo artist Neptune Township United States
Nicole Atkins is an artist from Neptune Township. Nicole Atkins has 29 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Domino”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Nicole Atkins most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Nicole Atkins, born in 1978 in Neptune Township, put out Neptune City in 2007, and it sounded like a girl-group record left out in a psychedelic rainstorm. Her touchstones are old-school crooners, soul, retro psychedelia and the tight craft of the Brill Building songwriters, and she sings with the kind of big, swooning drama that has drawn comparisons to Roy Orbison. "Maybe Tonight" and "The Way It Is" set out the stall.
She's kept restyling the wardrobe ever since. Mondo Amore in 2011 brought "Cry, Cry, Cry", Slow Phaser in 2013 had "Girl You Look Amazing", and Goodnight Rhonda Lee in 2017 leaned into lush, late-night heartache with "Darkness Falls So Quiet". Italian Ice, in 2020, gave her "Domino", a warm, rolling groove that became her best showing on the countdowns.
What ties it all together is that voice: torchy, theatrical and plainly in love with the records that came before it, but never just playing dress-up.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Nicole Atkins on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Domino | 7 | #5 | – | 2020 | |
| 2 | Maybe Tonight | 6 | #235 | – | – | |
| 3 | Girl You Look Amazing | 5 | #33 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | Mind Eraser | 3 | #42 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Cry, Cry, Cry | 4 | #56 | – | 2011 | |
| 6 | A Litte Crazy | 1 | #46 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | Listen Up | 1 | #106 | – | 2017 | |
| 8 | Darkness Falls So Quiet | 1 | #87 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | The Way It Is | 1 | #867 | – | – |
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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