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Trey Anastasio
Solo artist Fort Worth United States US jam band Phish lead singer
Trey Anastasio is an artist from Fort Worth. Trey Anastasio has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2020. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Shine”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #45. The station that charted Trey Anastasio most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Trey Anastasio, born on September 30, 1964, made his name playing lead guitar in Phish, the band he helped start in 1983 and wrote the lion's share of songs for: his name is on 152 Phish originals, 141 of them his alone. Outside the band he has built a solo career that runs to 11 albums, and his self-titled 2002 record, with "Cayman Review", let his nimble, spiralling guitar run loose with nobody else calling the shots.
He's never been able to sit still. There have been side projects galore, the Trey Anastasio Band, Oysterhead, Phil Lesh and Friends and Surrender to the Air among them, and in 2019 the Ghosts of the Forest project yielded an album of the same name, with "Drift While You're Sleeping".
He has also taken his compositions to the concert hall, playing them with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other orchestras, and he and Amanda Green composed the songs for Hands on a Hardbody, a Broadway show that earned the pair a Tony nomination for Best Original Score in 2013, along with the Dramatists Guild's Frederick Loewe Award.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Trey Anastasio on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shine | 2 | #45 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | Alive Again | 1 | #563 | – | – | |
| 3 | Cayman Review | 2 | #798 | – | – | |
| 4 | Drift While You're Sleeping | 1 | #1840 | – | – | |
| 5 | Pigtail | 1 | #87 | – | 2012 | |
| 6 | Let Me Lie | 1 | #105 | – | 2012 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1840 | Drift While You're Sleeping | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2019 | 1020 | Cayman Review | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2013 | 798 | Cayman Review | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) |
| 2012 | 87 | Pigtail | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 105 | Let Me Lie | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2012 |
| 2009 | 563 | Alive Again | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2009 | 790 | Shine | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2006 | 736 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2005 | 45 | Shine | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2005 |
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