Artist · chart history
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Band Philadelphia United States Formed 2004
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah formed in 2004 in Philadelphia, United States. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has 17 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #99. The station that charted Clap Your Hands Say Yeah most often is WFNX (Boston, MA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah came out of Philadelphia in 2004 as a collaboration between singer-songwriter Alec Ounsworth, Sean Greenhalgh, Robbie Guertin, Lee Sargent and Tyler Sargent, and they rode to fame on the MP3 blogs. Few bands summed up the blog-rock moment better, and their self-titled debut in 2005 shows why: wobbly, wiry, joyous indie rock with Ounsworth's yelp riding on top like a man singing through a clenched jaw.
"The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth", "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood" and "In This Home On Ice" were the ones that stuck, jangling and jittery and gleefully off-kilter. Some Loud Thunder, in 2007, followed with "Underwater (You and Me)" and "Satan Said Dance", a pulsing, twitchy dance-floor oddity.
There have been six albums in all, the most recent New Fragility in 2021, and these days Ounsworth carries the name on his own as a solo artist.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth | 9 | #99 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) | 1 | #324 | – | – | |
| 3 | Underwater (You and Me) | 1 | #47 | – | 2007 | |
| 4 | Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood | 1 | #51 | – | 2006 | |
| 5 | In This Home On Ice | 1 | #81 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | The Skin of My Yellow Country | 1 | #588 | – | – | |
| 7 | Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth, The | 1 | #703 | – | – | |
| 8 | Satan Said Dance | 1 | #87 | – | 2007 | |
| 9 | Over And Over Again | 1 | #866 | – | – |
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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