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Dropkick Murphys
Band Quincy United States Formed 1996
Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 in Quincy, United States. Dropkick Murphys has 51 chart appearances on 40 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Queen Of Suffolk County”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #229. The station that charted Dropkick Murphys most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Dropkick Murphys came out of Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1996, and they've never sounded like anything but a bar fight with bagpipes: street punk played at full tilt, tangled up with Irish folk tunes and bellowed by a room full of voices. Ken Casey is the one member who has been there from the start; Mike McColgan was in the first lineup until Al Barr, who shares lead vocals with Casey, arrived in 1998, alongside a crew that came to include drummer Matt Kelly, guitarists James Lynch and Tim Brennan, and Scruffy Wallace.
They cut 5 albums for the punk label Hellcat and won over New England and the East Coast the hard way, one sweaty club at a time, before widening the circle to national and overseas tours, with a St. Patrick's Day week of shows in and around Boston every year. "Tessie", in 2004, a salute to the Royal Rooters, the old Red Sox fan club, was their first mainstream hit.
The Warrior's Code, their last Hellcat album, came in 2005 with "I'm Shipping Up to Boston", a mad jig of a song that the film The Departed put to work in 2006; it became their only platinum single. They launched their own label, Born & Bred, in 2007, Going Out in Style hit number 6 on the Billboard chart in 2011, and they have kept the pints raised ever since, all the way to For the People in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dropkick Murphys on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queen Of Suffolk County | 5 | #229 | – | – | |
| 2 | I'm Shipping Up to Boston | 6 | #7 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | Walk Away | 4 | #24 | – | 2003 | |
| 4 | Sunshine Highway | 4 | #38 | – | 2005 | |
| 5 | State of Massachusetts | 4 | #20 | – | 2007 | |
| 6 | The Dirty Glass | 3 | #15 | – | 2003 | |
| 7 | Going Out in Style | 5 | #20 | – | 2011 | |
| 8 | Who'll Stand With Us? | 2 | #7 | – | 2025 | |
| 9 | Tessie | 1 | #7 | – | 2004 | |
| 10 | The Queen of Suffolk County | 1 | #7 | – | 2021 | |
| 11 | The Boys Are Back | 1 | #13 | – | 2013 | |
| 12 | Paying My Way | 1 | #25 | – | 2017 | |
| 13 | Rose Tattoo | 1 | #327 | – | – | |
| 14 | Memorial Day | 2 | #55 | – | 2011 | |
| 15 | Shipping Up to Boston (live) | 1 | #35 | – | 2010 | |
| 16 | The Burden | 1 | #37 | – | 2005 | |
| 17 | Blood | 1 | #39 | – | 2017 | |
| 18 | Don't Tear Us Apart | 1 | #56 | – | 2013 | |
| 19 | Until The Next Time | 1 | #39 | – | 2017 | |
| 20 | Chesterfields and Aftershave | 1 | #51 | – | 2025 | |
| 21 | The State of Massachusetts | 1 | #379 | – | – | |
| 22 | Never Forget | 1 | #104 | – | 2008 | |
| 23 | World Full of Hate | 1 | #179 | – | 2004 | |
| 24 | Flannigan's Ball | 1 | #93 | – | 2008 |
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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