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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Band Manchester Formed 2011
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds formed in 2011 in Manchester. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds has 24 chart appearances on 23 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “If I Had a Gun...”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #21. The station that charted Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds most often is 107.1 The Peak (Westchester County, NY), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are the band Noel Gallagher built after walking out of Oasis in August 2009, and the self-titled debut arrived in 2011, a few months after he finally confirmed the solo album at a press conference that July. It's Noel doing what Noel does best: big, sturdy Manchester melodies, chiming guitars and choruses built for whole stadiums to sing back, with a touch more swagger in the arrangements than the old band ever allowed. "If I Had a Gun..." and "AKA... What a Life!" were among the singles, the first a tender, strummed ballad, the second a strutting, piano-pounding rave-up.
The name has a proper rock-nerd pedigree: the "Noel Gallagher's" part came to him while listening to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and "High Flying Birds" comes from "High Flying Bird", best known in a version by Jefferson Airplane.
The touring band pulled in former Oasis men Gem Archer on guitar, Mike Rowe on piano and Chris Sharrock on drums, plus former Zutons bassist Russell Pritchard, and guests such as Johnny Marr, Paul Weller, Amorphous Androgynous and the Crouch End Festival Chorus have turned up on the records. Chasing Yesterday followed in 2015, Who Built the Moon? in 2017 and Council Skies in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If I Had a Gun... | 13 | #21 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Council Skies | 3 | #19 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | AKA... What A Life! | 4 | #45 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | In The Heat Of The Moment | 1 | #45 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | Easy Now | 1 | #66 | – | 2023 | |
| 6 | Lock All The Doors | 1 | #108 | – | 2015 | |
| 7 | We're On Our Way Now | 1 | #106 | – | 2021 |
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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