Artist · chart history
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Band Formed 2016
Brigitte Calls Me Baby formed in 2016. Brigitte Calls Me Baby has 23 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2023–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “We Were Never Alive”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #30. The station that charted Brigitte Calls Me Baby most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2024.
Brigitte Calls Me Baby are a Chicago alternative rock band built around the croon of Wes Leavins, a singer who got the band's name from his teenage pen-pal letters with Brigitte Bardot. That's the whole aesthetic in one anecdote: old-movie glamour, a little mischief, and a frontman with a flair for the grand gesture. Jack Fluegel plays guitar, Devin Wessels bass and Jeremy Benshish drums.
They were opening for Inhaler at their very first show in 2022, before they had released a note, and later warmed up crowds for Muse. A set at South by Southwest in 2023 got ATO Records interested, and ATO put out the This House Is Made of Corners EP that same year, with "Impressively Average" and "Eddie My Love" on it. Their first full-length, The Future Is Our Way Out, followed in 2024 and gave the countdowns "We Were Never Alive".
The sound is jangly post-punk guitar laid over bright, new wave synths, tight and punchy, with Leavins swooning over the top like he's auditioning for a black-and-white picture show. Retro, sure, but it's retro with its sleeves rolled up.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Brigitte Calls Me Baby on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We Were Never Alive | 10 | #30 | – | 2024 | |
| 2 | Impressively Average | 8 | #34 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Eddie My Love | 5 | #23 | – | 2024 |
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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