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Todd Rundgren
Solo artist Upper Darby Township United States
Todd Rundgren is an artist from Upper Darby Township. Todd Rundgren has 66 chart appearances on 42 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hello It's Me”, which appears on 14 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Todd Rundgren most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances.
Todd Rundgren, born in 1948 and raised in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, is a one-man band in the truest sense, a guy who can handle guitar, piano, bass, saxophone and even theremin. He'd started out in the mid-'60s and formed the psychedelic Nazz in 1967, then walked away after two years to go solo and landed a top 40 hit straight out of the gate with "We Gotta Get You a Woman" in 1970.
Something/Anything?, in 1972, is a sprawling album that throws together sweet, blue-eyed soul ballads like "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw the Light", ear-candy power pop like "Couldn't I Just Tell You", and whatever else took his fancy. Then he went off the deep end, gloriously, on A Wizard, a True Star in 1973, a head-spinning collage of a record that bedroom musicians are still learning from, and followed it with Todd in 1974 and the gentle "Can We Still Be Friends" on Hermit of Mink Hollow in 1978. "Bang the Drum All Day", from The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect, became a sports-arena staple.
He's also a producer of real clout, behind Badfinger's Straight Up, Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band, the New York Dolls' debut, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and XTC's Skylarking, and he played in Utopia, too. He was a tech pioneer as well, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in 2021.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Todd Rundgren on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello It's Me | 14 | #1 | 1 | – | |
| 2 | Bang The Drum All Day | 22 | #404 | – | – | |
| 3 | I Saw The Light | 9 | #223 | – | – | |
| 4 | Property | 7 | #1068 | – | – | |
| 5 | Just One Victory | 2 | #340 | – | – | |
| 6 | Can We Still Be Friends | 2 | #857 | – | – | |
| 7 | Bang the Drum | 4 | #357 | – | – | |
| 8 | Couldn't I Just Tell You | 2 | #526 | – | – | |
| 9 | We've Gotta Get You A Woman | 1 | #718 | – | – | |
| 10 | A Dream Goes On Forever | 1 | #1366 | – | – | |
| 11 | Love Is The Answer | 1 | #933 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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