Artist · chart history
Asgeir
Solo artist Iceland Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician
Asgeir is an artist from Iceland. Asgeir has 9 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “King and Cross”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Asgeir most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Ásgeir stepped out of Iceland in 2013 with In the Silence, an album that sounds like it was recorded with the windows shut against the weather: soft guitar, a gentle, close-miked voice and folk bones under everything. "King and Cross" is the song from it that found its way onto rock radio.
Born Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson in 1992, he had been credited by his first two names on his Icelandic releases before trimming it to a single word in 2013, the year of the album. Guitar and voice are his instruments, and he plays them like a songwriter first, never a showman. He is backed by a band that carries his full name, the Ásgeir Trausti Band, and he also turns up as a guitarist in the Lovely Lion.
A Music Moves Europe Award followed in 2014, the year after the record came out.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Asgeir on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King and Cross | 9 | #9 | – | 2014 |
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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