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Outkast
Band East Point United States Formed 1991
Outkast formed in 1991 in East Point, United States. Outkast has 129 chart appearances on 81 radio countdowns from 29 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hey Ya!”, which appears on 68 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Outkast most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 25 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Outkast is Antwan "Big Boi" Patton and André "André 3000" Benjamin, two Atlanta kids who started the duo while they were still in high school, and between them they have dragged Southern hip-hop out of the regional bins and into the center of American pop. Their rhymes are dense and knotty, their hooks sticky, and their outlook stubbornly positive.
They started strong. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik arrived in 1994 on the back of "Player's Ball", which went to the top of Billboard's rap chart, and ATLiens in 1996 and Aquemini in 1998, the album with "Rosa Parks", pushed the sound further out, pulling in funk, psychedelia, jazz and even techno. Critics went wild for both. Stankonia, in 2000, was the breakout: "B.O.B." hurtles along like a runaway train, and "Ms. Jackson" went to No. 1 on the Hot 100 and won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.
Then they blew the doors off with a sprawling double album. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, in 2003, had Big Boi fronting the bumping "The Way You Move" and André leading "Hey Ya!", a manic burst of retro pop that refuses to sit still. Both singles hit No. 1, the album debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, their only album to do so, went diamond and won Album of the Year at the Grammys.
They made the musical film Idlewild and its soundtrack in 2006, split the following year and went solo, and came back in 2014 for a run of more than 40 festival dates starting at Coachella. They have 6 Grammys and 20 million certified sales, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted them on November 8, 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Outkast on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hey Ya! | 68 | #1 | 1 | 2003 | |
| 2 | Ms. Jackson | 13 | #30 | – | – | |
| 3 | B.O.B. | 14 | #46 | – | 2000 | |
| 4 | So Fresh So Clean | 8 | #88 | – | – | |
| 5 | Rosa Parks | 6 | #14 | – | – | |
| 6 | The Way You Move | 4 | #251 | – | – | |
| 7 | Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry Bout Me) | 8 | #100 | – | 2006 | |
| 8 | BOB (B.O.B.) (Bombs Over Baghdad) | 1 | #75 | – | – | |
| 9 | Players Ball | 1 | #649 | – | – | |
| 10 | B.O.B. (Zack de la Rocha Mix) | 1 | #81 | – | 2000 | |
| 11 | Bombs Over Bagdad | 1 | #84 | – | 2000 | |
| 12 | Liberation | 1 | #1062 | – | – | |
| 13 | Intro/Gasoline Dreams | 1 | #667 | – | – | |
| 14 | Roses | 1 | #882 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Outkast as a guest.
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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