Artist · chart history
Richard Cheese
Solo artist Los Angeles United States
Richard Cheese is an artist from Los Angeles. Richard Cheese has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2002. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Chop Suey”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #100. The station that charted Richard Cheese most often is WHFS (Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Richard Cheese is a lounge lizard who doesn't exist: the crooner is a character dreamed up and played by Mark Jonathan Davis, a Los Angeles actor, comedian and singer, who takes popular songs and gives them the full martini-bar treatment, swing rhythms, brushed drums, finger-snapping piano and a Vegas-sized smirk.
The joke works because the delivery is dead serious. Lounge Against the Machine, from 2000, turned "Last Resort" into something you could order a cocktail to, and Tuxicity, from 2002, gave "Chop Suey" the same velvet-voiced makeover. It's comedy, sure, but it's also a sly bit of criticism: strip the distortion off a snarling rock song, and you find out whether there was a tune under there all along.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Richard Cheese on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chop Suey | 1 | #100 | – | 2002 | |
| 2 | Last Resort | 1 | #107 | – | 2000 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 99.1 | Chop Suey | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002 |
| 2000 | 106.7 | Last Resort | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000 |
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