Artist · chart history
The Levellers
Band Brighton United Kingdom Formed 1988
The Levellers formed in 1988 in Brighton, United Kingdom. The Levellers has 33 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1992–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “One Way”, which appears on 21 lists with a best position of #77. The station that charted The Levellers most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.
The Levellers formed in Brighton in 1988 and took their name from the Levellers political movement, which tells you where their hearts were. This is folk rock with anarcho-punk mud on its boots: Mark Chadwick singing and playing guitar, Jeremy Cunningham on bass, Charlie Heather on drums, and Jon Sevink's violin sawing away at the centre of it all, with Simon Friend adding guitar, mandolin and vocals from 1990.
A first EP came in 1989 and an album in 1990, but it was signing to China Records and releasing Levelling the Land in 1991 that carried them overseas. "One Way" and "Liberty Song" are the anthems, fiddle-driven stomps that turn a festival field into one great heaving singalong, and by the early '90s they were one of the most popular indie bands in Britain. Glastonbury had them in 1992 and brought them back in 1994 to headline the Pyramid Stage in front of a record crowd of 300,000.
Mouth to Mouth in 1997 brought the bright, bouncing "What a Beautiful Day". Keyboardist Matt Savage and guitarist Dan Donnelly have since joined, and they are still recording and touring.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Levellers on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Way | 21 | #77 | – | 1992 | |
| 2 | Liberty Song | 8 | #29 | – | 1992 | |
| 3 | What a Beautiful Day | 4 | #6 | – | 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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