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Rickie Lee Jones
Solo artist Chicago United States
Rickie Lee Jones is an artist from Chicago. Rickie Lee Jones has 10 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Chuck E's in Love”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #395. The station that charted Rickie Lee Jones most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 4 appearances.
Rickie Lee Jones has spent five decades refusing to sit still, and It's Like This, her 2000 album, found the Chicago singer on ground the Grammys filed under traditional pop, earning her a nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 2001. Across 15 studio albums she has slipped between rock, R&B, pop, soul and jazz, playing guitar, piano and keyboards along the way, with that smoky, elastic voice as the thread through all of it.
It started with a bang. Her self-titled debut in 1979 won over critics and buyers alike, went platinum and picked up 4 Grammy nominations, and she walked off with Best New Artist in 1980. Pirates in 1981 kept the streak going, The Magazine followed in 1984, and after a break from recording she came back with Flying Cowboys in 1989. A year later she won her second Grammy, for "Makin' Whoopee", a duet with Dr. John.
She told her own story in the 2021 memoir Last Chance Texaco, and Pieces of Treasure brought her eighth Grammy nomination in 2023. Rock radio's countdowns, though, keep coming back to "Chuck E's in Love".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Rickie Lee Jones on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chuck E's in Love | 4 | #395 | – | – | |
| 2 | Danny's All-Star Joint | 2 | #649 | – | – | |
| 3 | Must Be Love | 1 | #1347 | – | – | |
| 4 | Woody and Dutch On the Slow Train to Peking | 1 | #899 | – | – | |
| 5 | The Last Chance Texaco | 1 | #724 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Rickie Lee Jones as a guest.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 625 | Chuck E's in Love | KXT 917 Song Countdown |
| 2026 | 1059 | Chuck E's in Love | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2024 | 395 | Chuck E's in Love | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years |
| 2024 | 799 | Danny's All-Star Joint | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years |
| 2023 | 899 | Woody and Dutch On the Slow Train to Peking | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 |
| 2023 | 724 | The Last Chance Texaco | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places |
| 2022 | 441 | Chuck E's in Love | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s |
| 2006 | 275 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2001 | 649 | Danny's All-Star Joint | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2001 | 1347 | Must Be Love | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
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