Artist · chart history
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Band Brooklyn United States Active 1996–2018
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings formed in 1996 in Brooklyn, United States and was active until 2018. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings has 52 chart appearances on 38 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “100 Day, 100 Nights”, which appears on 14 lists with a best position of #29. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings played funk and soul the way it sounded between the mid-'60s and the mid-'70s, and they played it like they'd never heard of irony. Out of Brooklyn and signed to Daptone Records, they cut their debut, Dap Dippin', in 2002, the first of 7 studio albums, and on Naturally in 2005 they even dragged "This Land Is Your Land" onto the dance floor.
The Dap-Kings, with Binky Griptite and Homer Steinweiss among them, doubled as Daptone's house band, and their work with Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse's Back to Black included, carried their tight, vintage sound far beyond their own records. But Jones was the engine: a singer who hit every song like it owed her money. I Learned the Hard Way came in 2010, and Give the People What They Want, in 2014, picked up a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album.
Jones died in 2016, the year of "I'm Still Here". The posthumous Soul of a Woman arrived in 2017 with "Matter of Time", as warm and unhurried a goodbye as anyone could ask for. The band kept working together through 2018, and a collection of covers followed in 2020.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 Day, 100 Nights | 14 | #29 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Stranger To My Happiness | 11 | #37 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | I'm Still Here | 4 | #1 | 1 | 2016 | |
| 4 | Matter of Time | 5 | #15 | – | 2017 | |
| 5 | I Learned The Hard Way | 6 | #3 | – | 2010 | |
| 6 | Money | 2 | #13 | – | 2010 | |
| 7 | This Land is Your Land | 2 | #118 | – | – | |
| 8 | How Long Do I Have To Wait For You | 1 | #284 | – | – | |
| 9 | Better Things | 3 | #491 | – | – | |
| 10 | Nobody's Baby | 1 | #457 | – | – | |
| 11 | Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) | 1 | #55 | – | 2020 | |
| 12 | Little Boys With Shiny Toys | 1 | #637 | – | – | |
| 13 | 100 Days | 1 | #841 | – | – |
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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