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BT
Solo artist Rockville United States EDM producer Brian Wayne Transeau
BT is an artist from Rockville. BT has 23 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Never Gonna Come Back Down”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted BT most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
BT, born Brian Wayne Transeau in 1971 and hailing from Rockville, is the electronic auteur who helped trance and intelligent dance music grow out of the club and into something grander. He's a one-man operation, DJ, singer, songwriter, producer, composer and engineer, and his records are dense with detail, all spiraling synths, crisp breakbeats and waves of melodic euphoria.
Ima, in 1996, gave dancefloors "Blue Skies", a dreamy, glistening slice of progressive house. Movement in Still Life in 1999 found him an audience on rock radio too: "Never Gonna Come Back Down" is a big, bruising anthem where breakbeats and guitars collide, while "Dreaming" goes for pure trance bliss. Along the way he has worked with everyone from Peter Gabriel and David Bowie to Madonna, Sting, Depeche Mode, Tori Amos and NSYNC.
He's a studio tinkerer at heart. BT developed stutter editing, chopping a tiny fragment of sound into rapid-fire repetitions, holds patents on the technique, and turned it into software through his own company. He's scored films like Go and The Fast and the Furious, and in 2010 his album These Hopeful Machines earned a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by BT on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never Gonna Come Back Down | 13 | #23 | – | 2000 | |
| 2 | Blue Skies | 3 | #30 | – | 1997 | |
| 3 | Every Other Way | 1 | #2 | – | 2011 | |
| 4 | Dreaming | 3 | #351 | – | – | |
| 5 | Suddenly | 1 | #30 | – | 2012 | |
| 6 | Madskillz | 1 | #82 | – | 2001 | |
| 7 | Movement In Still Life | 1 | #77 | – | 2000 |
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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