Artist · chart history
William Orbit
Solo artist Shoreditch United Kingdom English musician, composer and record producer
William Orbit is an artist from Shoreditch. William Orbit has 8 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Water From A Vine Leaf”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #71. The station that charted William Orbit most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances.
William Orbit was born William Mark Wainwright in Shoreditch in 1956, and by the early '90s he was the kind of studio alchemist who could make a guitar sound like weather. He had played in Torch Song and Bassomatic, and on his own he worked guitar and keyboards over beds of techno, house and drifting ambient electronics.
Strange Cargo III, released through I.R.S. Records in 1993, held "Water From A Vine Leaf", a slow, luminous piece of floating synths and hushed atmosphere that sounds like dawn coming up over a city that never quite went to sleep.
Across a career of four decades, his production and songwriting work earned him multiple Grammy Awards and Ivor Novello Awards, and his own records and the ones he produced sold over 200 million copies between them. He died on 23 July 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by William Orbit on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water From A Vine Leaf | 8 | #71 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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