Artist · chart history
Alex G
Solo artist Havertown United States American indie singer‐songwriter
Alex G is an artist from Havertown. Alex G has 18 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2022–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Afterlife”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Alex G most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Alex G is Alexander Giannascoli, born in 1993 and from Havertown, and he cut his teeth in local bands before striking out alone. At 17 he started putting out his own music, releasing a first album as Alex G in 2010 and self-releasing on Bandcamp until DSU came out on Orchid Tapes in 2014: hazy, off-kilter songs where a sweet melody could turn eerie without warning.
He went through Lucky Number before signing to Domino in 2015, and the albums kept growing stranger and more assured: Beach Music, Rocket, House of Sugar and, in 2022, God Save the Animals, home of "Runner", a bright, jangly single with a warm chorus that sticks for days. On stage he's backed by his longtime band, Sam Acchione on guitar, John Heywood on bass and Tom Kelly on drums.
He's also become a composer for film, scoring Jane Schoenbrun's We're All Going to the World's Fair, I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. In 2024 he moved to RCA, and Headlights followed in 2025 with "Afterlife".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Alex G on radio countdowns
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | Afterlife | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 29 | Afterlife | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 30 | Afterlife | WNXP 91 Most Played Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 34 | Afterlife | WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 50 | Afterlife | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 55 | Afterlife | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 63 | Afterlife | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 63 | Afterlife | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 556 | Runner | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century |
| 2025 | 721 | Runner | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now |
| 2024 | 415 | Runner | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) |
| 2022 | 4 | Runner | Impact 89FM Top 89 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 21 | Runner | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 26 | Runner | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 55 | Runner | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 81 | Runner | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 99 | Runner | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2022 |
| 2022 | 156 | Runner | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2022 |
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