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An End Has a Start by Editors
An End Has a Start is an album by Editors, released in 2007. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 14 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors”, on 7 lists with a best position of #24.
An End Has a Start, the second album from Birmingham's Editors, came out on Kitchenware Records in June 2007, two years after The Back Room had put "Munich" and "Blood" on the map and earned a Mercury Prize nomination. Jacknife Lee took the producer's chair, and the sound gets bigger and glossier without shaking off the band's post-punk-revival chill: chiming, echoing guitars, a pounding rhythm section and gloomy anthems aimed at the back row.
Britain went for it in a big way. It went platinum in the UK on its release day, hit number one on the albums chart, finished 2007 as the year's 69th best-selling album there and got the band shortlisted for Best British Band at the Brit Awards. "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" gave them another top 10 single.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from An End Has a Start on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors | 7 | #24 | – | 2007–2019 | |
| 2 | An End Has a Start | 5 | #19 | – | 2007–2008 | |
| 3 | Bones | 1 | #26 | – | 2008 | |
| 4 | The racing rats | 1 | #45 | – | 2008 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.