Cant find my error.

[carp]

<?
$query = "SELECT * FROM `songs` WHERE `user` = '$user' ORDER BY `id` DESC";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$song_count = @mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($song_count == 0) {
            echo "none";
    } else {

            while( list( $title, $artist ) = mysql_fetch_row( $result ) ){
             echo "$title - $artist";

            }
}
?>

Anyone see an error, I'm always getting 0 as a song_count and yes, i'm connecting tot he database and yes the database has an enrty. and yes $user variable is set.