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The Raconteurs
Band Detroit United States Formed 2005 in Australia known as The Saboteurs
The Raconteurs formed in 2005 in Detroit, United States. The Raconteurs has 143 chart appearances on 99 radio countdowns from 45 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Steady, As She Goes”, which appears on 48 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted The Raconteurs most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
The Raconteurs came together in Detroit in 2005 as a supergroup of sorts: Jack White and Brendan Benson sharing the singing and the guitars, with Jack Lawrence on bass and Patrick Keeler on drums, the rhythm section from the Greenhornes. (In Australia they go by the Saboteurs.) This is a big, round, melodic machine, with two singers and two guitars pushing and pulling at each other.
Broken Boy Soldiers, in 2006, opens the case with "Steady, As She Goes", a strutting, loping power-pop tune with a bassline that bobs like a cork and a chorus built for arenas, and "Level" cranks the fuzz up further. Consolers of the Lonely, in 2008, is a tougher, rowdier record with "Salute Your Solution" and "Carolina Drama". After a long break, Help Us Stranger arrived in 2019, with "Sunday Driver", "Now That You're Gone" and "Help Me Stranger".
White and Lawrence later carried on together in the Dead Weather.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Raconteurs on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steady, As She Goes | 48 | #2 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Level | 27 | #20 | – | 2006 | |
| 3 | Salute Your Solution | 17 | #4 | – | 2008 | |
| 4 | Now That You're Gone | 11 | #26 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Help Me Stranger | 8 | #22 | – | 2019 | |
| 6 | Sunday Driver | 7 | #5 | – | 2019 | |
| 7 | Old Enough | 5 | #13 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | Many Shades of Black | 4 | #14 | – | 2008 | |
| 9 | Consoler of the Lonely | 3 | #41 | – | 2008 | |
| 10 | Carolina Drama | 3 | #94 | – | 2008 | |
| 11 | Somedays I Don't Feel Like Trying | 3 | #89 | – | 2019 | |
| 12 | Lvel | 1 | #61 | – | 2007 | |
| 13 | Rich Kid Blues | 1 | #514 | – | – | |
| 14 | Top Yourself | 2 | #77 | – | 2009 | |
| 15 | You Don't Understand Me | 1 | #79 | – | 2008 | |
| 16 | Carolina Drama (Acoustic Mix) | 1 | #771 | – | – |
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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