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Box Car Racer

Band San Diego United States Active 2001–2003

Box Car Racer formed in 2001 in San Diego, United States and was active until 2003. Box Car Racer has 27 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Feel So”, which appears on 17 lists with a best position of #14. The station that charted Box Car Racer most often is 91X (San Diego, CA / Tijuana), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.

27appearances

17countdowns

3songs charted

17stations

0#1 finishes

2002years

Box Car Racer was Tom DeLonge's escape hatch from Blink-182, formed in San Diego in 2001 to chase the darker ideas he didn't think suited his day job. He brought his Blink bandmate Travis Barker along, with David Kennedy of Hazen Street completing the studio lineup and Barker's friend Anthony Celestino later coming in on bass.

They cut the self-titled album fast and loose, with a do-it-yourself spirit, and MCA put it out in May 2002. It reached number 12 on the Billboard 200, and "I Feel So", all brooding build and cathartic release, climbed to number 8 on the Modern Rock chart, with "There Is" following it up. That fall they made their only headlining tour of North America, with the Used opening.

The side project didn't sit easy back home: it fed an ongoing tension between DeLonge and Blink-182 bandmate Mark Hoppus, and it left its mark on the more experimental Blink-182 album of 2003. DeLonge shut Box Car Racer down in mid-2003, figuring it had done its job, though he later called Angels & Airwaves, which also features Kennedy, a continuation of it. Talk of a revival bubbled up between 2018 and 2021, and in 2023 Barker confirmed that the song they had worked on became the Blink-182 track "Terrified".

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

Songs by Box Car Racer on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	I Feel So	866	17	#14	–	2002
2	There Is	374	9	#18	–	2002
3	All Systems Go	8	1	#85	–	2002

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

2002Box Car Racer3 charting songs

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2002	52	I Feel So	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002
2002	22	I Feel So	91X Top 91 Songs of 2002
2002	75	There Is	91X Top 91 Songs of 2002
2002	85	All Systems Go	91X Top 91 Songs of 2002
2002	91	I Feel So	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002
2002	21	I Feel So	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002
2002	59	There Is	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002
2002	42	There Is	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002
2002	77	I Feel So	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002
2002	60	I Feel So	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2002
2002	82	I Feel So	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2002
2002	55	I Feel So	The End Top 107 Songs of 2002
2002	76	There Is	The End Top 107 Songs of 2002
2002	33	I Feel So	89X Top 89 Songs of 2002
2002	75	There Is	89X Top 89 Songs of 2002
2002	83	I Feel So	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002
2002	57	I Feel So	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002
2002	14	I Feel So	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002
2002	18	There Is	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002
2002	35	I Feel So	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002
2002	47	I Feel So	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002
2002	49 (tie)	There Is	WBER Listener Countdown 2002
2002	54	I Feel So	WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002
2002	55 (tie)	I Feel So	WBER Listener Countdown 2002
2002	71	There Is	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002
2002	91	There Is	WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002
2002	49	I Feel So	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002

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