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Basement Jaxx

Band Brixton United Kingdom Formed 1994

Basement Jaxx formed in 1994 in Brixton, United Kingdom. Basement Jaxx has 37 chart appearances on 33 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Where's Your Head At?”, which appears on 22 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Basement Jaxx most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.

37appearances

33countdowns

9songs charted

16stations

0#1 finishes

1999–2025years

Basement Jaxx are Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, a pair of house diehards who took their name from the club night they ran in Brixton. They formed in 1994 and came up through the underground house scene of the mid-'90s, making dance music that refused to behave: too much colour, too many ideas, too much fun to fit any one scene.

Remedy, in 1999, brought "Red Alert" and "Rendez-Vu", and Rooty, in 2001, turned the mixing desk into a carnival: "Where's Your Head At?" is all distorted riff and yelping chaos, a dance track with a punk band's attitude, while "Do Your Thing" keeps things swinging closer to pop. Kish Kash followed in 2003, with "Good Luck" in tow, and then Crazy Itch Radio in 2006 and Scars in 2009, on labels from XL to Astralwerks.

The awards came too: Best Dance Act at the Brit Awards in both 2002 and 2004. Rock radio usually keeps dance acts at arm's length, but "Where's Your Head At?" has had no trouble slipping past the doormen.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Basement Jaxx on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Where's Your Head At?	809	22	#4	–	2001
2	Romeo	176	2	#10	–	2001
3	Rendez-Vu	161	6	#31	–	2000
4	Red Alert	90	2	#19	–	2000
5	Take Me Back to Your House	61	1	#40	–	2006
6	Get Me Off	48	1	#53	–	2002
7	Do Your Thing	30	1	#71	–	2002
8	Good Luck	19	1	#82	–	2003
9	Raindrops	18	1	#83	–	2009

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.

99 00 01 02 03 06 09

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2025	796	Where's Your Head At?	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2023	822	Red Alert	The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2022	114	Where's Your Head At?	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2022	177	Romeo	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2009	83	Raindrops	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2009
2006	40	Take Me Back to Your House	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2006
2005	1876	Where's Your Head At?	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	859	Where's Your Head At?	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2004	1891	Where's Your Head At?	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	65	Where's Your Head At?	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003
2003	82	Good Luck	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003
2003	465	Rendez-Vu	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2003)
2003	1891	Where's Your Head At?	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	48	Where's Your Head At?	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002
2002	64	Where's Your Head At?	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002
2002	90	Where's Your Head At?	The End Top 107 Songs of 2002
2002	94	Where's Your Head At?	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002
2002	9	Where's Your Head At?	WBER Listener Countdown 2002
2002	70	Where's Your Head At?	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002
2002	53	Get Me Off	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2002
2002	71	Do Your Thing	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2002
2002	464	Rendez-Vu	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2002)
2002	1962	Where's Your Head At?	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	61	Where's Your Head At?	91X Top 91 Songs of 2001
2001	88	Where's Your Head At?	89X Top 89 Songs of 2001
2001	16	Where's Your Head At?	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
2001	55	Where's Your Head At?	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001
2001	10	Romeo	WBER Listener Countdown 2001
2001	51 (tie)	Where's Your Head At?	WBER Listener Countdown 2001
2001	57	Where's Your Head At?	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001
2001	4	Where's Your Head At?	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001
2001	450	Rendez-Vu	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001)
2001	1979	Where's Your Head At?	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	19 (tie)	Red Alert	WBER Listener Countdown 2000
2000	31	Rendez-Vu	WBER Listener Countdown 2000
2000	451	Rendez-Vu	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000)
1999	44	Rendez-Vu	WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999

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