Artist · chart history
Caroline Polachek
Solo artist Manhattan United States
Caroline Polachek is an artist from Manhattan. Caroline Polachek has 20 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2021–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Welcome to my Island”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Caroline Polachek most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
Caroline Polachek, born June 20, 1985, and raised in Connecticut, started out co-founding the indie pop duo Chairlift while she was at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the pair came up through the late-2000s Brooklyn scene with the slow-burning success of "Bruises". She tried on other names too, making Arcadia as Ramona Lisa in 2014 and Drawing the Target Around the Arrow as CEP in 2017.
Chairlift called it a day in 2017, and under her own name she went somewhere stranger and more thrilling. Pang, in 2019, is avant-pop with a glassy, swooping synth-pop shimmer, and "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings" took off online. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You arrived in 2023 on Columbia, her first album to chart in several countries, and it's a wild, restless record: "Welcome to My Island" struts in yelping and "Sunset" sways with sun-warmed ease, while the stand-alone "Bunny Is a Rider" slinks along on a rubbery groove. The album also earned a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album.
She's a busy collaborator, working with Blood Orange, Fischerspooner, Charli XCX, Oneohtrix Point Never and Flume, and she wrote "No Angel" for Beyoncé.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Caroline Polachek on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome to my Island | 6 | #6 | – | 2023 | |
| 2 | So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings | 2 | #16 | – | 2022 | |
| 3 | Bunny Is A Rider | 4 | #42 | – | 2021 | |
| 4 | Sunset | 4 | #68 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | I Believe | 1 | #8 | – | 2023 | |
| 6 | Dang | 2 | #102 | – | 2023 | |
| 7 | Blood And Butter | 1 | #81 | – | 2023 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Caroline Polachek 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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