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Peter Gabriel peaked at No. 26 on the Shazam Global Chart with "Heroes", spending 8 days in the Top 50.
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Peter Gabriel
#268Jul 9, 2019
"Heroes" by Peter Gabriel climbed to No. 26 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 8 day(s) in the Top 50.
Album
Scratch My BackReleased
2010Total Shazams
2M
Days in Top 50
8The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Jul 9, 2019"Heroes" by Peter Gabriel climbed to No. 26 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 8 day(s) in the Top 50.
Album
Scratch My BackReleased
2010Total Shazams
2M
Days in Top 50
8The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
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About Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is one of the first artists to bring art-rock and world music into the mainstream. A key figure of the ’70s and ’80s, the British-born artist/activist started his career as the frontman of Genesis while still a teenager, helping forge a high-concept, restlessly ambitious sound that made the band a cornerstone of progressive rock. (Gabriel himself often changed costume multiple times during live shows, telling fantastical stories to hold the audience while the band retuned their battery of instruments.)
Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-’70s and embarked on a solo career that shaped his arty tendencies into increasingly pop forms, culminating in 1986’s era-defining So. Along with fellow Genesis alum Phil Collins, he became one of the few progressive rockers to survive the cultural transition to punk and New Wave, turning out a series of singles (“Solsbury Hill,” “Shock the Monkey,” “Games Without Frontiers,” “Sledgehammer”) by turns rhythmic, sophisticated, elusive, and complex, not to mention establishing himself as a regular face on MTV.
A champion of world music, he also cofounded the annual WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festival in 1980, later launching a label, Real World Records, dedicated to pushing international music onto a global stage. Relatedly, Gabriel has thrown considerable weight behind humanitarian causes, particularly in South Africa (his 1980 single “Biko” was named after anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko)—a legacy that led Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to award him a Man of Peace in 2006.
Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-’70s and embarked on a solo career that shaped his arty tendencies into increasingly pop forms, culminating in 1986’s era-defining So. Along with fellow Genesis alum Phil Collins, he became one of the few progressive rockers to survive the cultural transition to punk and New Wave, turning out a series of singles (“Solsbury Hill,” “Shock the Monkey,” “Games Without Frontiers,” “Sledgehammer”) by turns rhythmic, sophisticated, elusive, and complex, not to mention establishing himself as a regular face on MTV.
A champion of world music, he also cofounded the annual WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festival in 1980, later launching a label, Real World Records, dedicated to pushing international music onto a global stage. Relatedly, Gabriel has thrown considerable weight behind humanitarian causes, particularly in South Africa (his 1980 single “Biko” was named after anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko)—a legacy that led Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to award him a Man of Peace in 2006.
Musical InfluencesPeter Gabriel's musical influences include 10cc, Salif Keïta, King Crimson and more.
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