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Suede
Band London United Kingdom Formed 1989 English rock band
Suede formed in 1989 in London, United Kingdom. Suede has 30 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 1992–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Drowners”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted Suede most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1993.
Suede came slinking out of London in 1989, the brainchild of singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Justine Frischmann and bassist Mat Osman, with Simon Gilbert soon on drums and Bernard Butler on guitar and co-writing the songs. What they cooked up was glam rock with a post-punk sneer: Anderson all hips and androgynous yelp, Butler throwing off guitar lines as flash and seedy as a Soho back alley.
The British press crowned them the best new band in the country before they'd even put out an album, and the 1993 debut, Suede, went straight to number one on the UK Albums Chart, sold faster than any debut in nearly a decade and won the Mercury Music Prize. "The Drowners", "Metal Mickey" and "Animal Nitrate" are the sound of Britpop being born, though the band never wanted the tag. In America they had to go by the London Suede.
The sessions for Dog Man Star, in 1994, blew up and Butler walked; Richard Oakes took his place just before the tour. The record flopped at first, then got its due as a great, doomed epic. With Neil Codling on keyboards, Coming Up gave them another UK number one in 1996 and five top ten singles, with "Trash" and "Beautiful Ones" strutting like the old days never ended. They split in 2003, reunited in 2010, and have kept the albums coming since.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Suede on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Drowners | 11 | #15 | – | 1992 | |
| 2 | Metal Mickey | 8 | #54 | – | 1993 | |
| 3 | Animal Nitrate | 6 | #10 | – | 1993 | |
| 4 | Trash | 1 | #26 | – | – | |
| 5 | Beautiful Ones | 1 | #38 | – | – | |
| 6 | We Are The Pigs | 1 | #564 | – | – | |
| 7 | My Insatiable One | 1 | #90 | – | 1993 |
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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