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Phil Collins
Solo artist Hounslow United Kingdom of Genesis
Phil Collins is an artist from Hounslow. Phil Collins has 151 chart appearances on 104 radio countdowns from 39 stations on RockLists, spanning 1981–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “In the Air Tonight”, which appears on 99 lists with a best position of #8. The station that charted Phil Collins most often is Big 100 (Washington, DC), with 20 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1985.
Phil Collins was born in Hounslow in 1951, started playing drums at 5, and spent part of his childhood as a stage actor, most notably playing the Artful Dodger in Oliver! in the West End. He joined Genesis as their drummer in 1970, stepped up to lead vocals when Peter Gabriel left in 1975, and moonlighted on the side with the jazz fusion outfit Brand X.
Then came Face Value, in 1981, and a whole new Phil. The album grew out of the collapse of his first marriage and his deep love of soul music, and it sounds like a man working through a heartbreak in the middle of the night. "In the Air Tonight" is the one: a slow, eerie simmer with a haunted vocal that finally breaks open when the drums come crashing in. That booming "gated reverb" drum sound became his calling card and part of the fabric of '80s pop and rock. Hello, I Must Be Going! followed in 1982 with the tense, drum-heavy "I Don't Care Anymore", and No Jacket Required, in 1985, turned up the pop with "Sussudio", "Take Me Home" and "Don't Lose My Number".
By the end of the decade he had racked up more US top 40 singles than anyone else in the '80s, counting Genesis and his collaborations. He later won an Academy Award for his music for Disney's Tarzan, and after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him with Genesis in 2010, he is set to join it as a solo artist in November 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Phil Collins on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Air Tonight#123 of all time | 99 | #8 | – | 1981 | |
| 2 | I Don't Care Anymore | 31 | #147 | – | – | |
| 3 | Take Me Home | 6 | #301 | – | – | |
| 4 | Sussudio | 3 | #27 | – | 1985 | |
| 5 | A groovy kind of love | 1 | #13 | – | 1988 | |
| 6 | Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) | 2 | #435 | – | – | |
| 7 | I Wish It Would Rain Down | 1 | #388 | – | – | |
| 8 | One More Night | 1 | #226 | – | – | |
| 9 | That's All | 1 | #234 | – | – | |
| 10 | Don't Lose My Number | 2 | #66 | – | 1985 | |
| 11 | Another Day in Paradise | 1 | #331 | – | – | |
| 12 | I Missed Again | 1 | #697 | – | – | |
| 13 | Sussido | 1 | #449 | – | – |
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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