Artist · chart history

Rachael Yamagata

Solo artist Arlington County United States

Rachael Yamagata is an artist from Arlington County. Rachael Yamagata has 8 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Worn Me Down”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #78. The station that charted Rachael Yamagata most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.

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2004–2024years

Rachael Yamagata, a singer, songwriter and pianist from Arlington, Virginia, born in 1977, did her apprenticeship in the band Bumpus before going it alone, and her 2003 EP announced a voice worth leaning in for: smoky, bruised and unhurried, the sound of somebody at the piano well after last call. "Worn Me Down" is the standout, a slow-burning ballad that aches without ever begging.

Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart, in 2008, went bigger and darker, and "Sidedish Friend" shows her sharper, more bitter edge, all tension and bite. Her songs have turned up again and again on television, and the list of people she has worked with runs from Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes and Ray LaMontagne to Jason Mraz, Rhett Miller, Matt Nathanson and even Toots and the Maytals. She has recorded for RCA.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Rachael Yamagata on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Worn Me Down	279	5	#78	–	2004
2	Even If I Don't	45	1	#56	–	2011
3	Let Me Be Your Girl	37	1	#57	–	2016
4	Sidedish Friend	11	1	#785	–	–

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.

04 11 16

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2024	733	Worn Me Down	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2022	566	Worn Me Down	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2018	287	Worn Me Down	WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018
2016	57	Let Me Be Your Girl	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2016
2013	78	Worn Me Down	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2013	785	Sidedish Friend	WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013)
2011	56	Even If I Don't	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011
2004	82 (tie)	Worn Me Down	WBER Listener Countdown 2004

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