Artist · chart history · #271 in indie & aaa artist polls
Steve Forbert
Solo artist Meridian United States
Steve Forbert is an artist from Meridian. Steve Forbert has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Romeo's Tune”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #223. The station that charted Steve Forbert most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Steve Forbert, born in 1954 and from Meridian, cut Jackrabbit Slim for Nemperor in 1979, and "Romeo's Tune" off it is the kind of warm, rambling folk-pop confession that sneaks up on a whole country. It climbed to 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sat at 8 in Canada for two weeks, and the album went gold up there. He's a songwriter first, with a voice that BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris ranked among the most distinctive anywhere.
His first four albums all made the Billboard 200, and his songs have outlived the hits: Rosanne Cash, Keith Urban, Marty Stuart and Webb Wilder have all recorded them, and in 2017 twenty-one artists lined up to cover him on the tribute An American Troubadour. He never stopped working, either. Any Old Time earned a Grammy nomination in the traditional folk category in 2004, and in 2018 he published a memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock, alongside his 19th studio album, The Magic Tree.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Steve Forbert on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romeo's Tune | 4 | #223 | – | – | |
| 2 | Dignity | 1 | #88 | – | 2020 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 762 | Romeo's Tune | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2020 | 88 | Dignity | WEXT Top 97 of 2020 |
| 2007 | 605 | Romeo's Tune | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time |
| 2006 | 274 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2004 | 429 | Romeo's Tune | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) |
| 2001 | 223 | Romeo's Tune | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
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