Song · Cold War Kids
“Audience” by Cold War Kids
From the EP Behave Yourself (2009)
“Audience” by Cold War Kids appears on 17 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2009 and 2014. It was first released in 2009 on the EP Behave Yourself. Its best result is #12 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #92 alternative song of 2010, #3,602 alternative song of all time and #388 of the '10s.
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"Audience", which often goes by "Audience of One", was the lone single from Cold War Kids' Behave Yourself EP on Downtown Records, and the band gave it away as a free download in November 2009 before its proper release a few weeks later. Critics took it as a return to form, and it's easy to hear why: the song swaps the band's scrappier rock for something gentler and more bittersweet, with Willett's voice drifting toward what AllMusic's Heather Phares called the Jeff Buckley side of their sound.
It climbed to 39 on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart, the band's third top-40 hit there, and a video followed in January 2010.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 84 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 66 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 of 2009 | 94 |
| 2010 | 67 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 12 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 53 | 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY | 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010 | 91 |
| 2010 | 16 | Channel 92.3 San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Channel 92.3 Top 92 Songs of 2010 | 92 |
| 2010 | 84 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 Slugtunez of 2010 | 94 |
| 2010 | 32 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2010 | 103 |
| 2010 | 78 | 90.5 WERG Erie, PA | WERG Top 90 of 2010 | 90 |
| 2010 | 93 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2010 | 97 |
| 2010 | 64 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
| 2010 | 74 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 94 Songs of 2010 | 93 |
| 2010 | 66 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2010 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1546 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1314 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1198 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1132 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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