Artist · chart history
Stormzy
Solo artist Thornton Heath United Kingdom
Stormzy is an artist from Thornton Heath. Stormzy has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2017–2020. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Vossi Bop”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #27. The station that charted Stormzy most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2019.
Stormzy, the Thornton Heath rapper born in 1993, didn't wait for anybody's permission. In 2014 he started rolling out his Wicked Skengman freestyles over classic grime beats, and the underground sat up. "Shut Up" began life as a YouTube freestyle and ended up at number eight on the UK Singles Chart once he launched a campaign to make it the Christmas number one. The MOBO Awards named him Best Grime Act in 2014 and again in 2015, and the BBC put him on its Sound of 2015 list.
His 2017 debut, Gang Signs & Prayer, was the first grime album ever to top the UK Albums Chart, with "Big for Your Boots" swaggering through it, and it took British Album of the Year at the 2018 Brits, along with British Male Solo Artist. Grime had never been this big, and he carried it like it weighed nothing.
Then came 2019, the coronation. "Vossi Bop" gave him his first UK number-one single, and he became the first British rapper to headline Glastonbury, wearing a stab vest designed by Banksy as a blunt comment on knife crime in London. Heavy Is the Head followed on 13 December 2019, with "Audacity" riding shotgun, and the Brits handed him British Male Solo Artist again in 2020. His third album, This Is What I Mean, came out on Def Jam in 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Stormzy on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Stormzy as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 97 | Audacity | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2020 |
| 2019 | 27 | Vossi Bop | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019 |
| 2017 | 91 | Big for Your Boots | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017 |
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