Artist · chart history
Spiritualized
Band Rugby United Kingdom Formed 1990
Spiritualized formed in 1990 in Rugby, United Kingdom. Spiritualized has 14 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #18. The station that charted Spiritualized most often is John Peel (BBC Radio 1), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.
Spiritualized is Jason Pierce's spaceship. The man they call J. Spaceman launched it in Rugby in 1990, after Spacemen 3, and the crew has come and gone around him ever since, with guitarist Doggen Foster and drummer Kevin Bales settling in by 1999 and bassists and keyboard players rotating through. Kate Radley, Damon Reece and Tim Lewis are among those who have come aboard.
The sound is drones and feedback and hushed devotion, songs that crawl toward the stars at a narcotic pace and then burst into an almighty wall of noise. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, from 1997, is where it all comes together: the title track drifts in on a lullaby haze, "Come Together" crashes in on a wave of fuzz, and the whole thing sounds like a broken heart played at cathedral scale. It is the band's best-known and most acclaimed record, and one of the big British music weeklies named it album of the year.
Songs like "Oh Happy Day" and "Any Way That You Want Me" have kept them on rock radio's countdowns, and by 2023 Pierce had nine studio albums to his band's name.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Spiritualized on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space | 5 | #18 | – | 1997 | |
| 2 | Hey Jane | 2 | #126 | – | 2012 | |
| 3 | Oh Happy Day | 1 | #22 | – | 1998 | |
| 4 | Think I'm in Love | 1 | #1178 | – | – | |
| 5 | Any Way That You Want Me | 1 | #37 | – | 1990 | |
| 6 | Soul on Fire | 2 | #857 | – | – | |
| 7 | Come Together | 2 | #480 | – | – |
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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