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Banks
Solo artist Los Angeles United States US singer/songwriter Jillian Banks
Banks is an artist from Los Angeles. Banks has 16 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Beggin For Thread”, which appears on 14 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted Banks most often is 96.5 The Buzz (Kansas City, MO-KS), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Banks, born Jillian Rose Banks in 1988, came out of Los Angeles with a voice built for late nights and a sound pitched somewhere between alternative R&B, electropop and trip hop: slow-motion beats, cold synths and confessions sung so close to the mic you can hear them breathe. A pair of EPs in 2013, Fall Over and London, got her signed to Harvest, and her debut album Goddess followed in 2014 to warm reviews and a No. 12 peak on the Billboard 200. Its single "Beggin for Thread", all taut nerves and wounded pride, went platinum.
The Altar in 2016, with the brooding "Gemini Feed", and III in 2019 kept her in the same weight class, peaking at 17 and 21, and III drew the best notices of her career. After leaving Harvest she went independent for Serpentina in 2022, a stranger, more experimental record that sold modestly but won over the critics, and Off with Her Head followed in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Banks on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beggin For Thread | 14 | #7 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | Gemini Feed | 1 | #80 | – | 2016 | |
| 3 | Drowning | 1 | #85 | – | 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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