Artist · chart history
Best Coast
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 2009
Best Coast formed in 2009 in Los Angeles, United States. Best Coast has 49 chart appearances on 40 radio countdowns from 20 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Boyfriend”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #18. The station that charted Best Coast most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Best Coast were sunshine and heartbreak in equal doses, a Los Angeles duo formed in 2009 by Bethany Cosentino, who wrote the songs, sang and played guitar, and Bobb Bruno, who played guitar and just about everything else. Cosentino, once a child actress and later part of the drone group Pocahaunted, came back west after a short spell at college in New York and started cutting lo-fi demos with Bruno. A run of 7-inch and cassette singles later, they signed to Mexican Summer.
Crazy for You, released in 2010 and produced by Lewis Pesacov, was fuzzy surf-pop with the reverb cranked, and girl-group melodies. It became an unexpected hit on the strength of internet buzz, and "Boyfriend" is its perfect, swooning centerpiece. They spent much of 2011 on the road with Vivian Girls' Ali Koehler on drums.
The Only Place in 2012 cleaned up the sound and let the melodies shine, the Fade Away EP followed in 2013, and California Nights in 2015 went bigger and dreamier on the title track and "Feeling OK". Always Tomorrow arrived in 2020, with "Everything Has Changed" as its anthem. In 2023 Cosentino put the band on hiatus to make a solo record, Natural Disaster, and Bruno went on to play bass in Nothing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Best Coast on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boyfriend | 12 | #18 | – | 2010 | |
| 2 | Everything Has Changed | 12 | #4 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | The Only Place | 7 | #55 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | Feeling OK | 4 | #39 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | California Nights | 5 | #85 | – | 2015 | |
| 6 | In My Eyes | 2 | #20 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | Master Of My Own Mind | 1 | #264 | – | – | |
| 8 | Crazy For You | 2 | #45 | – | 2010 | |
| 9 | Fine Without You | 1 | #88 | – | 2017 | |
| 10 | This Lonely Morning | 2 | #88 | – | 2013 | |
| 11 | When I'm With You | 1 | #592 | – | – |
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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