Artist · chart history
Cigarettes After Sex
Band El Paso United States Formed 2008
Cigarettes After Sex formed in 2008 in El Paso, United States. Cigarettes After Sex has 11 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2017–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Tejano Blue”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #35. The station that charted Cigarettes After Sex most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2024.
Cigarettes After Sex began in El Paso, Texas, in 2008 as Greg Gonzalez's project, and everything about it moves at the speed of a slow dance at 3 in the morning. Gonzalez sings in a hushed, androgynous murmur over guitar that drifts rather than strums, with Randy Miller on bass, Jacob Tomsky on drums and Phillip Tubbs on keyboards keeping the whole thing suspended in amber. Call it dream pop, slowcore or shoegaze with the volume knob taped down; the songs are about love and romance, told in close-up.
The debut EP, I., arrived in 2012, and "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby" slowly became a sleeper hit once it started turning up in licensing deals. After the standalone single "Affection" in 2015, Partisan Records released the self-titled debut album in 2017 to positive reviews. "Apocalypse" is its centerpiece, a drowsy, gorgeous ballad that makes the end of the world sound like something to sleep through. Cry followed in 2019 with "Heavenly", more of the same candlelit hush, and a third album, X's, came out in July 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cigarettes After Sex on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tejano Blue | 3 | #35 | – | 2024 | |
| 2 | Apocalypse | 2 | #31 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | Baby Blue Movie | 2 | #56 | – | 2024 | |
| 4 | Heavenly | 1 | #60 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Anna Karenina | 1 | #80 | – | 2025 | |
| 6 | Holding you, Holding me | 1 | #72 | – | 2024 | |
| 7 | Pistol | 1 | #87 | – | 2023 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | Anna Karenina | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2025 |
| 2024 | 35 | Tejano Blue | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2024 |
| 2024 | 38 | Tejano Blue | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2024 |
| 2024 | 56 | Baby Blue Movie | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2024 |
| 2024 | 70 | Tejano Blue | 101X Most Requested and Most Played Songs of 2024 |
| 2024 | 72 | Holding you, Holding me | Impact 89FM Top 89 Songs of 2024 |
| 2024 | 73 | Baby Blue Movie | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2024 |
| 2023 | 87 | Pistol | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2023 |
| 2019 | 60 | Heavenly | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019 |
| 2018 | 92 | Apocalypse | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2018 |
| 2017 | 31 | Apocalypse | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 |
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