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Declan McKenna
Solo artist Enfield United Kingdom
Declan McKenna is an artist from Enfield. Declan McKenna has 34 chart appearances on 30 radio countdowns from 21 stations on RockLists, spanning 2016–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Brazil”, which appears on 18 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Declan McKenna most often is 107.1 The Peak (Westchester County, NY), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Declan McKenna, born in 1998 and raised in Enfield, was still a teenager when he won the Glastonbury Festival's Emerging Talent Competition in 2015. That December he self-released his first single, "Brazil", a bouncy, sunny protest song that takes aim at FIFA and the 2014 World Cup, all bright guitars and a hook you'll be humming before you've figured out how angry it is. It climbed to number 16 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and landed on the Stains EP in 2016.
Signed to Columbia, he delivered his debut album, What Do You Think About the Car?, in 2017, a scrappy, restless record of teenage indie rock, and "Isombard" is its wild card, jittery and sardonic. McKenna plays guitar and piano, and he's got a knack for songs that sound light on their feet while tackling something heavy.
Zeros, his second album, finally arrived in September 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed it back more than once, with "Beautiful Faces" bringing a glam-rock stomp and a wider, grander sound. What Happened to the Beach? followed in February 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Declan McKenna on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 18 | #2 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | Be An Astronaut | 3 | #63 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | Beautiful Faces | 5 | #60 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Sympathy | 3 | #47 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | Isombard | 2 | #79 | – | 2016 | |
| 6 | It's An Act | 1 | #73 | – | 2024 | |
| 7 | Champagne | 1 | #91 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Daniel, You're Still A Child | 1 | #87 | – | 2020 |
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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