Artist · chart history
Super Furry Animals
Band Cardiff Formed 1993
Super Furry Animals formed in 1993 in Cardiff. Super Furry Animals has 9 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Fire In My Heart”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #17. The station that charted Super Furry Animals most often is John Peel (BBC Radio 1), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1999.
Super Furry Animals were Cardiff's most gloriously unhinged pop band, formed in 1993 and quickly settled into the lineup that lasted their whole career: Gruff Rhys singing and playing guitar, Huw Bunford on lead guitar, Guto Pryce on bass, Cian Ciaran on keyboards and electronics, and Dafydd Ieuan on drums. In an earlier incarnation the singer was the actor Rhys Ifans.
They were at the heart of Cool Cymru, the wave of Welsh bands that also gave the world Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Catatonia and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and they were the oddest and most inventive of the lot. Their records veer from fuzzed-out glam stomps to techno pulses, psychedelic lullabies and harmonies that the Beach Boys might have killed for. The Moog Droog EP brought "God Show Me Magic", and the Ice Hockey Hair EP was a sprawling, gorgeous epic. Guerrilla, in 1999, was their giddiest, from the lilting "Fire in My Heart" to the breezy sway of "Northern Lites"; Phantom Power in 2003 brought "Golden Retriever" and the slow-building "Slow Life". "Rings Around the World" and "Turning Tide" are fan favorites too.
Their records came out through Creation and Epic, and they made nine albums that all reached the UK top 25. Strangely, for a band with so many tunes, they hold the record for the most top 40 singles without a single one cracking the top ten.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Super Furry Animals on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fire In My Heart | 1 | #17 | – | 1999 | |
| 2 | Rings Around The World | 1 | #21 | – | 2001 | |
| 3 | Northern Lites | 1 | #24 | – | 1999 | |
| 4 | Turning Tide | 1 | #27 | – | 1999 | |
| 5 | Ice Hockey Hair | 1 | #29 | – | 1998 | |
| 6 | Golden Retriever | 1 | #71 | – | – | |
| 7 | Something 4 The Weekend | 1 | #638 | – | – | |
| 8 | Slow Life | 1 | #46 | – | 2003 | |
| 9 | God Show Me Magic | 1 | #49 | – | 1996 |
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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