Artist · chart history
Car Seat Headrest
Band Leesburg Formed 2010 US indie rock band
Car Seat Headrest formed in 2010 in Leesburg. Car Seat Headrest has 36 chart appearances on 30 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 2016–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Fill in The Blank”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #17. The station that charted Car Seat Headrest most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Car Seat Headrest started in Leesburg, Virginia, in 2010 as Will Toledo alone with his gear, singing and playing everything himself, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, and putting the results straight onto Bandcamp. Between 2010 and 2014 he self-released 12 projects there, bedroom rock that sprawled and kept on going, lo-fi in sound but big in ambition. Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror), with "Bodys", came out of that stretch in 2011.
Matador signed him in 2015, and the same year Car Seat Headrest became a real touring and recording band. Teens Of Denial, in 2016, is the one rock radio latched onto: "Fill in The Blank" and the long, rambling "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales" sound like a kid thinking out loud at full volume, all wiry guitars and huge, cathartic choruses. Making a Door Less Open followed in 2020 with "Hollywood" and "Can't Cool Me Down", and "The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)" arrived in 2025.
Now based in Seattle, the band lines up as Toledo on vocals, guitar, piano and synthesizers, Ethan Ives on guitar, bass and backing vocals, Seth Dalby on bass and Andrew Katz on drums and percussion, with 8 albums released as a group.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Car Seat Headrest on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fill in The Blank | 5 | #17 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales | 6 | #38 | – | 2016 | |
| 3 | Catastrophe (Good Luck with that Man) | 4 | #17 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | Drunk Drivers | 2 | #5 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Hollywood | 5 | #39 | – | 2020 | |
| 6 | Gethsemane | 3 | #59 | – | 2025 | |
| 7 | Bodys | 3 | #58 | – | 2018 | |
| 8 | Can't Cool Me Down | 3 | #38 | – | 2020 | |
| 9 | Nervous Young Inhumans | 1 | #78 | – | 2018 | |
| 10 | Life Worth Missing | 1 | #34 | – | 2020 | |
| 11 | Devereaux | 1 | #66 | – | 2025 | |
| 12 | Martin | 1 | #68 | – | 2020 | |
| 13 | Running Up That Hill | 1 | #74 | – | 2021 |
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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