Artist · chart history
The Coral
Band Hoylake United Kingdom Formed 1996 UK indie 1996-
The Coral formed in 1996 in Hoylake, United Kingdom. The Coral has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dreaming Of You”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #65. The station that charted The Coral most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
The Coral came together in 1996 in Hoylake, out on the Wirral in Merseyside, and they play like a gang who spent their youth in the back room of a record shop, happy to follow a tune wherever it wanders. James Skelly sings and plays guitar, Ian Skelly drums, Paul Duffy doubles on bass and saxophone, and Nick Power, aboard since 1998, adds keyboards and backing vocals, with Bill Ryder-Jones and Lee Southall on guitars through the early years.
They broke through in the early 2000s on Deltasonic. The self-titled debut from 2002, home of "Dreaming of You", earned a Mercury Music Prize nomination and landed fourth on one year-end list of the best albums, and Magic and Medicine in 2003 threw off four UK Top 20 singles, "Pass It On" among them. The Invisible Invasion followed in 2005 with "In the Morning", a band this young already sounding comfortable in its own odd skin.
Ryder-Jones left in 2008, and the rest carried on as a five-piece.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Coral on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dreaming Of You | 1 | #65 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | In The Morning | 1 | #121 | – | 2005 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 121 | In The Morning | Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005 |
| 2003 | 65 (tie) | Dreaming Of You | WBER Listener Countdown 2003 |
| 2002 | 98 | Artist ranking | Virgin Radio Top 100 Brit Artists of All-Time (December 2002) |
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