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Tracy Bonham

Solo artist Boston United States

Tracy Bonham is an artist from Boston. Tracy Bonham has 27 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 20 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Mother Mother”, which appears on 26 lists with a best position of #11. The station that charted Tracy Bonham most often is 105.9 The X (Pittsburgh, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1996.

27appearances

26countdowns

2songs charted

20stations

0#1 finishes

1996–2023years

Tracy Bonham grew up in Eugene, Oregon, trained classically on violin and piano, and taught herself the guitar, which goes some way toward explaining why her 1996 debut, The Burdens of Being Upright, sounds like a conservatory kid who found the distortion pedal and never looked back. After building a following locally she signed a deal in 1995, and the album turned into a critical and commercial success: 2 Grammy nominations and a Gold certification from the RIAA in less than a year.

The lead single, "Mother Mother", went to the top of Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart in June 1996, and she was the last female solo artist to get there until Lorde did it in 2013. That's a long drought, and it says something about how hard she hit.

The follow-up, Down Here, got stuck in delays and finally surfaced in 2000; a year later she and her label went their separate ways. She turned to working with other artists, including Blue Man Group, touring with them on The Complex Rock Tour Live and its live DVD in 2003. Zoë Records, an imprint of Rounder, picked her up in 2004 for Blink the Brightest (2005), and since then she has put out Masts of Manhatta (2010), Wax & Gold (2015) and Modern Burdens (2017), which revisits her debut by recording the whole thing again.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Tracy Bonham on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Mother Mother	1,184	26	#11	–	1996
2	The One	43	1	#60	–	1996

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1996The Burdens of Being Upright1 charting song

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2023	405	Mother Mother	105.9 The X July 420 (2023)
2023	314	Mother Mother	The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2022	387	Mother Mother	105.9 The X July 420 (2022)
2022	814	Mother Mother	The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2021	412	Mother Mother	105.9 The X July 420 (2021)
2021	76	Mother Mother	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2007	487	Mother Mother	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)
2005	890	Mother Mother	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2002	14	Mother Mother	The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial)
2002	1261	Mother Mother	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	427	Mother Mother	WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001)
1999	907	Mother Mother	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	255	Mother Mother	WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999)
1999	323	Mother Mother	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	993	Mother Mother	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1999	395	Mother Mother	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)
1996	36	Mother Mother	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996
1996	23	Mother Mother	91X Top 91 Songs of 1996
1996	14	Mother Mother	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1996
1996	35	Mother Mother	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1996
1996	31	Mother Mother	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996
1996	24	Mother Mother	The End Top 107 Songs of 1996
1996	35	Mother Mother	WBER Listener Countdown 1996
1996	36	Mother Mother	WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996
1996	60	The One	WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996
1996	34	Mother Mother	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996
1996	11	Mother Mother	Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996

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