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Teenage Fanclub

Band Bellshill United Kingdom Formed 1989

Teenage Fanclub formed in 1989 in Bellshill, United Kingdom. Teenage Fanclub has 74 chart appearances on 36 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “What You Do To Me”, which appears on 18 lists with a best position of #93. The station that charted Teenage Fanclub most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 42 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1991.

74appearances
36countdowns
11songs charted
17stations
0#1 finishes
1990–2026years

Teenage Fanclub make guitar pop the way it's supposed to be made: fuzzy, sweet, harmony-soaked and utterly unashamed of a good tune. The Scottish band got going in 1989 around 3 singer-songwriters, Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley on guitars and Gerard Love on bass, who split the songwriting and the lead vocals between them, and still rotate their songs evenly on stage.

A Catholic Education in 1990 was scrappy and loud, with the churning "Everything Flows", but Bandwagonesque, in 1991, is the one: great slabs of distortion wrapped around the sunniest melodies in town. "The Concept" drifts along on a lazy, glorious hook, "Star Sign" chimes and crunches, and "What You Do to Me" is short, sharp and leaves you grinning. Thirteen in 1993 brought "Hang On", and Grand Prix in 1995 polished things up with "Sparky's Dream".

Drummers came and went, from Francis MacDonald to Brendan O'Hare and Paul Quinn, before MacDonald came back for good in 2000, and Finlay MacDonald, no relation, played keyboards for a spell. Man-Made in 2005 and Here in 2016 kept the harmonies coming. Love left in 2018, and Dave McGowan and Euros Childs have filled out the band since.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Teenage Fanclub on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 What You Do To Me
860		 18 #93 – 1992
2 Star Sign
681		 22 #5 – 1991
3 The Concept
310		 7 #6 – 1992
4 Hang On
235		 14 #1598 – –
5 Everything Flows
169		 4 #11 – 1990
6 I'm In Love
140		 3 #42 – 2016
7 It's All In My Mind
55		 1 #69 – 2005
8 Sparky's Dream
41		 1 #60 – 1995
9 Foreign Land
31		 1 #732 – –
10 Like A Virgin
30		 1 #36 – 1991
11 God Knows It's True
16		 1 #43 – 1990

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.

90 91 92 95 05 16

Every countdown appearance

Year#SongCountdown
2026 328 What You Do To Me The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound
2026 732 Foreign Land The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound
2024 520 I'm In Love The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century
2024 514 The Concept The Best Opening Tracks of All Time
2023 645 What You Do To Me The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2023 743 Everything Flows The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2023 824 The Concept The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2023 886 Star Sign The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2022 266 What You Do To Me The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2022 766 Star Sign The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2021 883 Star Sign 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2020 1942 Everything Flows WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time
2018 583 I'm In Love WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018
2016 42 I'm In Love WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2016
2014 1270 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014 1643 Star Sign CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014 1900 Hang On CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013 1219 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013 1689 Star Sign CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013 1831 Hang On CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011 1164 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2011 1631 Star Sign CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2011 1776 Hang On CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010 1126 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2010 1564 Star Sign CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2010 1707 Hang On CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009 1087 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009 1668 Hang On CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009 1682 Star Sign CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008 1081 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2008 1644 Hang On CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2008 1669 Star Sign CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007 1096 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007 1644 Hang On CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007 1660 Star Sign CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2006 835 Artist ranking WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006)
2005 69 It's All In My Mind Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005
2005 920 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 1247 Star Sign CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005 1598 Hang On CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004 919 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 1247 Star Sign CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004 1599 Hang On CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003 919 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 1247 Star Sign CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 1599 Hang On CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003 309 The Concept Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003 665 Star Sign Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002 933 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 1262 Star Sign CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 1604 Hang On CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002 490 The Concept Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002 1504 Star Sign Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001 933 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1263 Star Sign CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 1612 Hang On CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001 640 Everything Flows WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time
2000 933 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 1258 Star Sign CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000 1612 Hang On CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999 882 What You Do To Me CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 1255 Star Sign CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999 1612 Hang On CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1995 60 Sparky's Dream Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995
1992 94 The Concept KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992
1992 93 What You Do To Me Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992
1992 94 The Concept Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992
1992 58 Star Sign CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992
1991 59 Star Sign Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991
1991 5 Star Sign John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty')
1991 6 The Concept John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty')
1991 36 Like A Virgin John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1991 (the 'Phantom Fifty')
1990 11 Everything Flows John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1990
1990 43 God Knows It's True John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1990

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