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1975
Band Wilmslow United Kingdom Formed 2002
1975 formed in 2002 in Wilmslow, United Kingdom. 1975 has 85 chart appearances on 62 radio countdowns from 27 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Part Of The Band”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted 1975 most often is 91X (San Diego, CA / Tijuana), with 16 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2022.
The 1975 started as teenagers in Wilmslow, Cheshire, school friends first playing together in 2002, and they took their name from some scribbles dated "1 June, The 1975" in Matty Healy's secondhand copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Healy sings, plays rhythm guitar and writes most of the songs; George Daniel drums and does most of the producing; Adam Hann plays lead guitar and Ross MacDonald bass. After a string of EPs on Dirty Hit, from Facedown to IV, the 2013 self-titled debut went straight to the top in Britain on the back of "Sex", "Chocolate" and "Robbers".
Every album since has topped the UK chart, and each one has sprawled wider than the last. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It went number one in America too, with the neon funk of "Love Me" and the aching "Somebody Else". A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, in 2018, was the big statement, all anxious, glittering pop, and it won British Album of the Year at the Brits, with "Give Yourself a Try" earning a Grammy nod and "Love It If We Made It" sounding like a panic attack set to a stadium beat.
Notes on a Conditional Form followed in 2020, and Being Funny in a Foreign Language, in 2022, reined everything back into warm, sparkling pop-rock, with "I'm in Love with You" and "Part of the Band" at its center.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by 1975 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part Of The Band | 11 | #7 | – | 2022 | |
| 2 | Somebody Else | 9 | #4 | – | 2016 | |
| 3 | I'm In Love With You | 12 | #14 | – | 2022 | |
| 4 | The Sound | 7 | #26 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Chocolate | 8 | #30 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Love It If We Made It | 6 | #10 | – | 2018 | |
| 7 | If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) | 6 | #30 | – | 2020 | |
| 8 | Love Me | 5 | #30 | – | 2015 | |
| 9 | Me & You Together Song | 3 | #26 | – | 2020 | |
| 10 | About You | 2 | #27 | – | 2023 | |
| 11 | Oh Caroline | 4 | #54 | – | 2023 | |
| 12 | People | 2 | #49 | – | 2019 | |
| 13 | Give Yourself A Try | 2 | #46 | – | 2018 | |
| 14 | All I Need To Hear | 2 | #47 | – | 2022 | |
| 15 | Sex | 1 | #38 | – | 2013 | |
| 16 | It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) | 1 | #39 | – | 2019 | |
| 17 | Settle Down | 1 | #48 | – | 2014 | |
| 18 | A Change Of Heart | 1 | #66 | – | 2017 | |
| 19 | Frail State of Mind | 1 | #63 | – | 2019 |
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.
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