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Supergrass
Band Oxford United Kingdom Active 1993–2010
Supergrass formed in 1993 in Oxford, United Kingdom and was active until 2010. Supergrass has 47 chart appearances on 40 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Alright”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Supergrass most often is Virgin Radio (United Kingdom), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1995.
Supergrass started up in Wheatley, in the Oxford area, in 1993 as a trio with too much coffee in its veins: Gaz Coombes on vocals and guitar, Mick Quinn on bass and Danny Goffey on drums, with Quinn and Goffey chipping in backing vocals. Parlophone signed them in 1994, and I Should Coco, in 1995, was a blast of cartoon punk, glam stomp and swinging, retro pop that became the label's best-selling debut since the Beatles' Please Please Me. "Caught By The Fuzz" snarled, "Alright", a bouncing, grinning romp, turned into an international hit, and in 1996 they took the Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act.
They grew up without growing dull. In It for the Money, in 1997, had the bigger, brassier "Cheapskate", and the self-titled 1999 album brought the grinding groove of "Pumping on Your Stereo" and the lovely, loping "Moving". Gaz's brother Rob Coombes officially joined on keyboards in 2002, and the records kept coming through Diamond Hoo Ha in 2008.
Musical and creative differences ended it in 2010, leaving a seventh album, Release the Drones, unfinished, and they played their last show at La Cigale in Paris that June. They reunited in 2019, paid tribute to Taylor Hawkins, a big fan, at his tribute concert in 2022, and set off on a 2025 UK tour playing I Should Coco in full.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Supergrass on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alright | 12 | #6 | – | 1995 | |
| 2 | Pumping on Your Stereo | 16 | #6 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Caught By The Fuzz | 4 | #5 | – | 1994 | |
| 4 | Moving | 3 | #437 | – | – | |
| 5 | Grace | 1 | #78 | – | 2003 | |
| 6 | St. Petersburg | 3 | #593 | – | – | |
| 7 | Bad Blood | 1 | #61 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | Movin' | 2 | #419 | – | – | |
| 9 | Cheapskate | 3 | #105 | – | 1997 |
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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