Artist · chart history
Cloud Nothings
Band Cleveland United States Formed 2009 US indie rock band
Cloud Nothings formed in 2009 in Cleveland, United States. Cloud Nothings has 8 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Stay Useless”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #32. The station that charted Cloud Nothings most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
Cloud Nothings began in 2009 as one guy in a Cleveland basement: Dylan Baldi, singing and playing everything himself in his parents' house, then hauling a full band along whenever the songs had to be played live. That basement project signed with Carpark Records, a Washington, D.C., label, and grew into a real band, with Baldi on vocals and guitar, Jayson Gerycz on drums and Chris Brown on bass.
The breakthrough was Attack on Memory in 2012, where the grunge and garage-punk scuzz finally got room to snarl, and Here and Nowhere Else followed on April 1, 2014. They haven't slowed down since: Life Without Sound in 2017, Last Building Burning in 2018, a Bandcamp-only record called The Black Hole Understands in 2020 and The Shadow I Remember in 2021. These days they are signed to Pure Noise Records.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cloud Nothings on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay Useless | 5 | #32 | – | 2012 | |
| 2 | Modern Act | 2 | #136 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | I'm Not Part Of Me | 1 | #158 | – | 2014 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 986 | Modern Act | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound |
| 2017 | 136 | Modern Act | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 |
| 2014 | 158 | I'm Not Part Of Me | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 1908 | Stay Useless | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) |
| 2013 | 1986 | Stay Useless | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) |
| 2012 | 41 | Stay Useless | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 32 | Stay Useless | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2012 |
| 2012 | 69 | Stay Useless | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2012 |
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