Artist · chart history
The Streets
Solo artist Barnet United Kingdom Mike Skinner
The Streets is an artist from Barnet. The Streets has 52 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dry Your Eyes”, which appears on 20 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted The Streets most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 22 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
The Streets is Mike Skinner, a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who dreamed the project up as a teenager in Birmingham, though nothing came out until the early 2000s. When it did, it was a shock to the system. Original Pirate Material, in 2002, set Skinner's chatty, deadpan delivery over beats steeped in UK garage, and suddenly British rap had a voice that sounded like nobody else's. "Has It Come to This?" and "Let's Push Things Forward" came across like pirate radio beamed in from the next block over, and in 2003 The Streets were up for the Shortlist Music Prize.
A Grand Don't Come for Free, in 2004, went bigger, from the cocky strut of "Fit but You Know It" to the hushed ache of "Dry Your Eyes", which became the project's only number-one single in the UK. That year The Streets were nominated for Best UK & Ireland Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Three more albums followed before Skinner shut it down in 2011: The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, Everything Is Borrowed and Computers and Blues. He revived the name in 2017, released a mixtape in 2020 and The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light in 2023, and The Streets is now counted among the most influential acts in British hip-hop, garage and grime.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Streets on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dry Your Eyes | 20 | #1 | 1 | 2004 | |
| 2 | Let's Push Things Forward | 19 | #6 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Fit But You Know It | 6 | #17 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | I Love You (More Than You Love Me) | 1 | #34 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | Don't Mug Yourself | 1 | #42 | – | 2002 | |
| 6 | Everything Is Borrowed | 1 | #58 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | Weak Become Heroes | 1 | #63 | – | – | |
| 8 | When You Wasn't Famous | 1 | #75 | – | 2006 | |
| 9 | Has It Come to This? | 1 | #77 | – | 2002 | |
| 10 | Could Well Be In | 1 | #739 | – | – |
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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