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Stereophonics
Band Cwmaman United Kingdom Formed 1996
Stereophonics formed in 1996 in Cwmaman, United Kingdom. Stereophonics has 85 chart appearances on 44 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dakota”, which appears on 17 lists with a best position of #17. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Stereophonics most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 31 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Stereophonics came out of the village of Cwmaman in Wales's Cynon Valley with a sound as old-fashioned and sturdy as a pub bar: meat-and-potatoes British rock, big guitars and Kelly Jones's raw, whiskey-cured rasp. Jones sings and plays guitar, Richard Jones (no relation) plays bass, and Stuart Cable was on drums through 2003, followed by Javier Weyler and then Jamie Morrison, with Adam Zindani adding guitar from 2007.
The debut, Word Gets Around, arrived in August 1997 and made number 6 in Britain on the strength of "Local Boy in the Photograph", "A Thousand Trees" and "More Life in a Tramps Vest". Performance and Cocktails, in 1999, made them stars, with "The Bartender and the Thief", "Just Looking" and "Pick a Part That's New". Just Enough Education to Perform, in 2001, brought the breezy "Have a Nice Day", and "Handbags and Gladrags" came from the same period.
"Dakota", in 2005, was their first and only number-one single, and they have stacked up 9 number-one albums in Britain. They're a festival band to the bone, headlining Reading and Leeds in 2000 and Glastonbury in 2002.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Stereophonics on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dakota | 17 | #17 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | Have a Nice Day | 16 | #2 | – | 2001 | |
| 3 | Movie Star | 8 | #99 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | The Bartender and the Thief | 3 | #1 | 1 | 1998 | |
| 5 | Pick a Part That's New | 5 | #2 | – | 1999 | |
| 6 | Don't Let Me Down | 7 | #1268 | – | – | |
| 7 | Maybe Tomorrow | 5 | #225 | – | – | |
| 8 | Handbags and Gladrags | 5 | #86 | – | – | |
| 9 | Bust This Town | 3 | #150 | – | – | |
| 10 | Just Looking | 4 | #249 | – | – | |
| 11 | Traffic | 2 | #72 | – | 1997 | |
| 12 | Local Boy in The Photograph | 1 | #40 | – | – | |
| 13 | A Thousand Trees | 1 | #45 | – | – | |
| 14 | I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio | 1 | #234 | – | – | |
| 15 | You're My Star | 1 | #58 | – | 2010 | |
| 16 | There's Always Gonna Be Something | 1 | #66 | – | 2025 | |
| 17 | You Sexy Thing | 1 | #635 | – | – | |
| 18 | Maybe Tommorow | 1 | #732 | – | – | |
| 19 | Innocent | 1 | #37 | – | 2010 | |
| 20 | Mr. Writer | 1 | #92 | – | 2001 |
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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