Artist · chart history
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Band Ciudad de México Mexico Formed 2000
Rodrigo y Gabriela formed in 2000 in Ciudad de México, Mexico. Rodrigo y Gabriela has 32 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Tamacun”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #151. The station that charted Rodrigo y Gabriela most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
Rodrigo y Gabriela are two Mexican guitarists, Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero, who formed their duo in 2000 and took a strange road to the rock countdowns: they spent their first eight years as a pair working in Dublin, playing flamenco guitar with a metalhead's attack. Mexico City is home base now, but the sound was forged in Ireland.
The trick is that there's mostly no singer and no band, just two guitars in instrumental duets doing the work of a whole rock outfit: rumba rhythm, nuevo flamenco fire and the speed and swagger of heavy metal, all coming off acoustic strings. Their self-titled album in 2006 gave them "Tamacun" and "Diablo Rojo", and 11:11 in 2009 brought "Buster Voodoo".
Mettavolution won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at the 62nd ceremony, and In Between Thoughts…A New World followed in April 2023 with "Descending To Nowhere". Along the way they've played Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the White House, for President Barack Obama.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Rodrigo y Gabriela on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamacun | 8 | #151 | – | – | |
| 2 | Diablo Rojo | 6 | #71 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | Descending To Nowhere | 7 | #49 | – | 2023 | |
| 4 | Buster Voodoo | 3 | #473 | – | – | |
| 5 | Orion | 1 | #220 | – | – | |
| 6 | Mettavolution | 5 | #83 | – | 2019 | |
| 7 | The Soundmaker | 2 | #50 | – | 2014 |
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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