Artist · chart history
Backseat Lovers
Band Heber City United States indie rock band from Salt Lake City
Backseat Lovers formed in Heber City, United States. Backseat Lovers has 8 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2020–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Growing/Dying”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #36. The station that charted Backseat Lovers most often is 91X (San Diego, CA / Tijuana), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2022.
The Backseat Lovers came together in Utah in 2018 and made their first splash with When We Were Friends in 2019. "Kilby Girl" was the calling card, a wiry, restless piece of indie rock that builds from a nervous strum into a full-bodied surge, and it climbed as high as number 39 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay chart.
Joshua Harmon sings and plays guitar, Jonas Swanson adds a second guitar and harmonies, KJ Ward holds down the bass and Juice Welch drums, and between them they make the kind of spindly, dynamic guitar music that seems to breathe in and out.
Capitol picked them up, and on October 28, 2022, they put out Waiting to Spill, their major-label debut. "Growing/Dying" came off it and followed "Kilby Girl" onto the countdowns, a young band sounding bigger and more sure of itself.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Backseat Lovers on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Growing/Dying | 4 | #36 | – | 2022 | |
| 2 | Kilby Girl | 4 | #22 | – | 2020 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 44 | Growing/Dying | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 36 | Growing/Dying | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 73 | Growing/Dying | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 102 | Growing/Dying | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2022 |
| 2022 | 832 | Kilby Girl | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 |
| 2021 | 22 | Kilby Girl | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2021 |
| 2020 | 83 | Kilby Girl | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2020 |
| 2020 | 43 | Kilby Girl | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2020 |
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