Artist · chart history
Paul Hardcastle
Solo artist Kensington United Kingdom
Paul Hardcastle is an artist from Kensington. Paul Hardcastle has 5 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1985–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “19”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #103. The station that charted Paul Hardcastle most often is Q101 (Chicago, IL), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1985.
Paul Hardcastle, born in 1957, is a composer, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who builds records out of synthesizers, and in 1985 one of them went all the way to number one on the UK singles chart: "19", the track he is still best known for.
It is synth-pop at its starkest, all clipped electronic rhythm and cold machine precision, with none of the gloss of the day's chart pop. He also works as a radio presenter.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Paul Hardcastle on radio countdowns
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 819 | 19 | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s |
| 1999 | 788 | 19 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) |
| 1999 | 685 | 19 | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) |
| 1996 | 352 | 19 | Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) |
| 1985 | 103 | 19 | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1985 |
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