Artist · chart history
Animotion
Band United States Formed 1983
Animotion formed in 1983 in the United States. Animotion has 17 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1984–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Obsession”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #32. The station that charted Animotion most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1984.
Animotion rose out of the remains of Red Zone, a retro science-fiction band, in Los Angeles in 1983, just as synth-pop and new wave were cresting, and they came out swinging: chilly electronics with a rock band's muscle underneath. Mercury Records signed them in 1984, and the self-titled debut that year carried "Obsession", a breathless, fevered synth thriller that went top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 and charted in country after country.
Strange Behavior followed in 1986 with the clanking, mechanical strut of "I Engineer", and "Let Him Go" and "Room to Move" are the other songs people remember them by. The lineup would not sit still, though, and founding members Astrid Plane and Bill Wadhams were gone by the time a second self-titled album appeared in 1989. The band folded in the early '90s, reunited with its original members in 2001 and has kept playing live since, finally putting out Raise Your Expectations in 2017, its first studio album in nearly 30 years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Animotion on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Obsession | 16 | #32 | – | 1984 | |
| 2 | I Engineer | 1 | #1835 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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