Artist · chart history
Darlingside
Band Hadley United States Formed 2009
Darlingside formed in 2009 in Hadley, United States. Darlingside has 9 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2018–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Ocean Bed”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #11. The station that charted Darlingside most often is Exit 97.7 (Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Darlingside formed in 2009 and grew into a Massachusetts indie folk band that sounds like a string quartet that wandered into a songwriting workshop and never left. The core is four players, each doubling up: Don Mitchell on guitar and banjo, Auyon Mukharji on violin and mandolin, Harris Paseltiner on guitar and cello, and David Senft on bass and bass drum. Sam Kapala also played the drum kit with them for a time.
Birds Say, from 2015, is the record that carries "White Horses", and it's a good place to hear what the fuss is about: bowed strings and picked banjo braided together, arrangements that feel carved rather than strummed, and songs with a bookish, reflective streak. All Songs Considered praised exactly that, singling out the care in the arrangements and the literary bent of the writing.
They have kept up a steady clip since, with 10 EPs and LPs to their name by August 2023, the latest of them Everything Is Alive.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Darlingside on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ocean Bed | 2 | #11 | – | 2020 | |
| 2 | Eliza I See | 1 | #3 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Best of The Best of Times | 2 | #63 | – | 2018 | |
| 4 | White Horses | 2 | #536 | – | – | |
| 5 | Green Light | 1 | #80 | – | 2023 | |
| 6 | Futures | 1 | #87 | – | 2018 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 536 | White Horses | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) |
| 2023 | 3 | Eliza I See | WEXT Top 106 of 2023 |
| 2023 | 80 | Green Light | WEXT Top 106 of 2023 |
| 2020 | 11 | Ocean Bed | WEXT Top 97 of 2020 |
| 2020 | 54 | Ocean Bed | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2020 |
| 2020 | 1694 | White Horses | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2018 | 63 | Best of The Best of Times | WEXT Top 97 of 2018 |
| 2018 | 87 | Futures | WEXT Top 97 of 2018 |
| 2018 | 130 | Best of The Best of Times | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018 |
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