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Deadmau5
Solo artist Niagara Falls Canada
Deadmau5 is an artist from Niagara Falls. Deadmau5 has 7 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Pets”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #51. The station that charted Deadmau5 most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2015.
Deadmau5 is Joel Thomas Zimmerman, born in 1981, a Canadian producer and DJ who works mostly in progressive and electro house, who performs under a custom cartoon helmet called the mau5head and treats the dance floor like an engineering problem. In 2007 he started his own label, Mau5trap, and the next year Random Album Title made his name, going gold in Canada and silver in the UK and picking up a Juno.
For Lack of a Better Name, his fourth album, arrived in 2009 to critical acclaim, and it's where the whole machine clicks: "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", made with Rob Swire of Pendulum, rides a fat, bruising synth hook straight into the rock crowd, and the much-praised "Strobe" takes its sweet time getting where it's going. 4×4=12 followed in 2010 with "Some Chords", and in 2012 > album title goes here < brought "Professional Griefers" with Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance.
Along the way he's racked up seven Grammy nominations, four Juno wins, a techno alias called Testpilot, and side projects galore: BSOD with Steve Duda, the band WTF? with Tommy Lee, and supergroups Kx5 with Kaskade and Rezzmau5 with Rezz.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Deadmau5 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pets | 2 | #51 | – | 2015 | |
| 2 | Sofi Needs a Ladder | 1 | #60 | – | 2011 | |
| 3 | The Veldt | 1 | #984 | – | – | |
| 4 | Ghosts 'n' Stuff | 1 | #96 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Some Chords | 1 | #873 | – | – | |
| 6 | Professional Griefers | 1 | #50 | – | 2012 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 984 | The Veldt | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound |
| 2025 | 873 | Some Chords | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now |
| 2015 | 51 | Pets | WBER Listener Countdown 2015 |
| 2014 | 55 | Pets | WBER Listener Countdown 2014 |
| 2012 | 50 | Professional Griefers | KROQ Top 50 Songs of 2012 |
| 2011 | 60 | Sofi Needs a Ladder | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2011 |
| 2009 | 96 | Ghosts 'n' Stuff | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2009 |
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