Artist · chart history
Bleachers
Band Bergen County United States Formed 2013
Bleachers formed in 2013 in Bergen County, United States. Bleachers has 78 chart appearances on 67 radio countdowns from 25 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Modern Girl”, which appears on 15 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Bleachers most often is The Buzz (Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Bleachers is Jack Antonoff's band, launched from New Jersey in 2013, and for its first decade it was very much his: Antonoff singing and handling guitar, bass, keyboards, synths and samplers, with a touring crew behind him. The debut single, "I Wanna Get Better", arrived in February 2014, and Strange Desire followed that year, a record steeped in the late '80s and early '90s and in the teen movies of John Hughes, all big drums and heart-on-sleeve yearning, but built with thoroughly modern tools. "Rollercoaster" and "Like a River Runs" kept the rush going.
Gone Now came in 2017 with "Don't Take The Money", and Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night in 2021 leaned harder into the widescreen New Jersey bar-band sound, with "Stop Making This Hurt" and "chinatown". In 2023 the touring musicians became official members: Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Evan Smith, Michael Riddleberger and Zem Audu, whose saxophone gives the band its honking late-night edge. The self-titled Bleachers followed in 2024, the same year as "Modern Girl" and A Stranger Desired, a re-recording of the debut, and Everyone for Ten Minutes arrived in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bleachers on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Girl | 15 | #1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| 2 | I Wanna Get Better | 12 | #3 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Stop Making This Hurt | 14 | #6 | – | 2021 | |
| 4 | Rollercoaster | 10 | #15 | – | 2014 | |
| 5 | Tiny Moves | 7 | #22 | – | 2024 | |
| 6 | Don't Take The Money | 5 | #13 | – | 2017 | |
| 7 | chinatown | 4 | #63 | – | 2021 | |
| 8 | How Dare You Want More | 5 | #63 | – | 2022 | |
| 9 | I Miss Those Days | 4 | #48 | – | 2018 | |
| 10 | Like The River Runs | 1 | #85 | – | 2015 | |
| 11 | Like a River Runs | 1 | #96 | – | 2015 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Bleachers as a guest.
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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