Artist · chart history

Civil Twilight

Band Cape Town South Africa Formed 2005

Civil Twilight formed in 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa. Civil Twilight has 41 chart appearances on 35 radio countdowns from 23 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2015. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Letters From The Sky”, which appears on 24 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Civil Twilight most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.

41appearances

35countdowns

7songs charted

23stations

0#1 finishes

2010–2015years

Civil Twilight came out of Cape Town in 2005, built around brothers Steven and Andrew McKellar, with Richard Wouters and Kevin Dailey filling out the lineup. Steven sang lead and switched between bass and keys, Andrew handled guitar, Wouters played drums and percussion, and Dailey added keyboards and backing vocals. Signed to Wind-up Records, they made the kind of widescreen alternative rock that seems designed for dark rooms and long drives.

Their self-titled debut in 2009 was the breakthrough, and "Letters From The Sky" is its centerpiece: a slow-building ache, the band circling patiently while Steven McKellar's voice climbing toward a release the song keeps just out of reach. "Next to Me" from the same record showed the gentler side of that sound. Holy Weather followed in 2012, with "Fire Escape" pushing the dynamics harder, and a third album, Story of an Immigrant, arrived in 2015 before the band's story came to a close.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Civil Twilight on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Letters From The Sky	1,214	24	#3	–	2010
2	Fire Escape	338	8	#21	–	2012
3	Next to Me	56	3	#72	–	2011
4	Anybody Out There	55	3	#45	–	2010
5	When, When	36	1	#67	–	2015
6	Holy Dove	17	1	#83	–	2015
7	Letters To The Sky	10	1	#91	–	2010

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.

10 11 12 15

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2015	83	Holy Dove	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015
2015	67	When, When	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015
2014	1457	Letters From The Sky	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014	1647	Fire Escape	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1413	Letters From The Sky	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013	1637	Fire Escape	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2012	21	Fire Escape	CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2012
2012	47	Fire Escape	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2012
2012	41	Fire Escape	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2012
2012	53	Fire Escape	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2012
2012	54	Fire Escape	97X Top 97 Songs of 2012
2012	85	Fire Escape	96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2012
2011	83	Next to Me	CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011
2011	45	Anybody Out There	WERG Top 90 of 2011
2011	81	Next to Me	WERG Top 90 of 2011
2011	1397	Letters From The Sky	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	65	Letters From The Sky	91X Top 91 Songs of 2010
2010	10	Letters From The Sky	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2010
2010	56	Letters From The Sky	102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2010
2010	32	Letters From The Sky	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2010
2010	3	Letters From The Sky	94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010
2010	15	Letters From The Sky	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2010
2010	19	Letters From The Sky	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2010
2010	21	Letters From The Sky	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010
2010	23	Letters From The Sky	94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010
2010	29	Letters From The Sky	Channel 92.3 Top 92 Songs of 2010
2010	34	Letters From The Sky	KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2010
2010	41	Letters From The Sky	WERG Top 90 of 2010
2010	42	Letters From The Sky	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2010
2010	45	Letters From The Sky	KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2010
2010	46	Letters From The Sky	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2010
2010	73	Letters From The Sky	KSLG Top 94 Slugtunez of 2010
2010	79	Letters From The Sky	106.1 The Corner Top 106 of 2010
2010	79	Letters From The Sky	89.7 The River Top 89 of 2010
2010	80	Letters From The Sky	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2010
2010	91	Letters To The Sky	WFPK Top 100 Songs of 2010
2010	94	Anybody Out There	94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010
2010	101	Anybody Out There	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2010
2010	39	Letters From The Sky	WBRU Top 95 Songs of 2010
2010	72	Next to Me	WBRU Top 95 Songs of 2010
2010	1505	Letters From The Sky	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)

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