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Robbie Robertson
Solo artist Toronto Canada
Robbie Robertson is an artist from Toronto. Robbie Robertson has 18 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Somewhere Down The Crazy River”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #216. The station that charted Robbie Robertson most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Robbie Robertson has already lived a couple of rock and roll lifetimes. Born in 1943, the Toronto guitarist played lead for Bob Dylan's backing band, then served as guitarist and chief songwriter for the Band from the start until he walked away in 1976, leaving behind "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and helping to invent what folks now call Americana. The farewell film The Last Waltz opened a long partnership with Martin Scorsese, and Robertson went on to work on the music for Raging Bull, The King of Comedy and The Color of Money.
His self-titled 1987 solo album is a moody, atmospheric thing, all shimmering textures and a voice that murmurs more than it sings. "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" is the solo hit, a heat-hazy nocturne, and "Broken Arrow" is just as haunted. In Canada he took the Juno for Album of the Year in 1989, and he picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance too.
He has kept autoharp and melodica close at hand alongside the guitar, and kept working with Scorsese, all the way to The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, which was dedicated to his memory and brought him a posthumous Oscar nomination after his death in 2023. How to Become Clairvoyant, from 2011, gave rock radio "He Don't Live Here No More". He is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Band, and Canada's Walk of Fame took him in both ways.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Robbie Robertson on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somewhere Down The Crazy River | 10 | #216 | – | – | |
| 2 | He Don't Live Here No More | 4 | #19 | – | 2011 | |
| 3 | Testimony | 1 | #376 | – | – | |
| 4 | Fear Of Falling | 1 | #78 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Broken Arrow | 1 | #918 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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