Artist · chart history
Raphael Saadiq
Solo artist Oakland United States
Raphael Saadiq is an artist from Oakland. Raphael Saadiq has 26 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Stone Rollin'”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted Raphael Saadiq most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Raphael Saadiq, born Charles Ray Wiggins in Oakland in 1966, has been one of R&B's quiet architects for decades. He toured as a bassist behind Prince, Sheila E. and Sheena Easton before founding Tony! Toni! Toné! in 1986 with his brother D'Wayne and cousin Timothy Christian Riley, singing lead and playing bass. Later came the Ummah production crew with D'Angelo, Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and J Dilla, the supergroup Lucy Pearl, and songs and productions for everyone from Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston to Erykah Badu, D'Angelo and Beyoncé.
As a solo artist he fell head over heels for vintage soul. The Way I See It, in 2008, delivered "100 Yard Dash", a sprinting, horn-kissed throwback, and Stone Rollin', in 2011, pushed even further back into the grit. The title track rolls on a greasy, rumbling bass line and a smoky groove, and "Heart Attack" bursts with sweaty, handclapping energy, like a revue show that won't let the crowd sit down.
Jimmy Lee brought his sound up to date in 2019. He has won three Grammys for his songwriting and picked up Academy Award nominations, and in 2007 he even co-founded the video game studio IllFonic.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Raphael Saadiq on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone Rollin' | 8 | #7 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | 100 Yard Dash | 9 | #20 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Heart Attack | 4 | #35 | – | 2011 | |
| 4 | Day Dreams | 2 | #31 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Something Keeps Calling | 1 | #32 | – | 2019 | |
| 6 | One Hundred (100) Yard Dash | 1 | #668 | – | – | |
| 7 | 100 Mile Dash | 1 | #821 | – | – |
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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