Artist · chart history · #300 in indie & aaa artist polls
Pete Yorn
Solo artist Montville United States US | rock
Pete Yorn is an artist from Montville. Pete Yorn has 157 chart appearances on 96 radio countdowns from 33 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Life On A Chain”, which appears on 28 lists with a best position of #10. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Pete Yorn most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 61 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Pete Yorn, born in 1974, is the kind of singer-songwriter who'd rather play everything himself, and he does: on his records he handles the bulk of the instruments, guitar and harmonica included. His 2001 debut on Columbia, musicforthemorningafter, won him praise and sales in equal measure, a set of rumpled, late-night rock songs with a warm, worn-in glow. "Life on a Chain", "Strange Condition" and "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)" made him a fixture on the countdowns.
Day I Forgot, in 2003, brought "Come Back Home" and "Crystal Village", and Nightcrawler, in 2006, carried "For Us" and "Undercover". After that he kept tinkering, with Break Up (2009), a self-titled album (2010) and, much later, Hawaii (2022), home of "Elizabeth Taylor".
A 2021 career retrospective ranked him among the best songwriters of his generation, and he's still at it: his twelfth album, All the Beauty, came out in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Pete Yorn on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life On A Chain | 28 | #10 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | For Us | 13 | #18 | – | 2006 | |
| 3 | Relator | 10 | #18 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Strange Condition | 18 | #23 | – | 2002 | |
| 5 | For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) | 20 | #1 | 1 | 2001 | |
| 6 | Come Back Home | 11 | #28 | – | 2003 | |
| 7 | Someday, Someday | 5 | #47 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Calm Down | 5 | #16 | – | 2019 | |
| 9 | Crystal Village | 11 | #37 | – | 2003 | |
| 10 | Don't Wanna Cry | 4 | #42 | – | 2009 | |
| 11 | I Wanna Be The One | 2 | #38 | – | 2020 | |
| 12 | Lost Weekend | 3 | #40 | – | 2016 | |
| 13 | Elizabeth Taylor | 3 | #41 | – | 2022 | |
| 14 | Panic | 7 | #1657 | – | – | |
| 15 | Undercover | 2 | #65 | – | 2007 | |
| 16 | Real Good Love | 2 | #99 | – | 2024 | |
| 17 | For Nancy | 1 | #114 | – | 2001 | |
| 18 | The World | 1 | #129 | – | 2020 | |
| 19 | I Want To Be The One | 1 | #71 | – | 2020 | |
| 20 | I'm Not The One | 1 | #76 | – | 2016 | |
| 21 | Iguana Bird | 1 | #71 | – | 2019 | |
| 22 | Last Summer | 2 | #92 | – | 2009 | |
| 23 | Do You Want to Love Again? | 1 | #55 | – | 2020 | |
| 24 | Closet | 1 | #167 | – | 2001 | |
| 25 | Precious Stone | 1 | #94 | – | 2010 | |
| 26 | Burrito | 2 | #97 | – | 2003 |
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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