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Editors
Band Stafford Formed 2002
Editors formed in 2002 in Stafford. Editors has 70 chart appearances on 50 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Munich”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted Editors most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 41 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Editors came together in 2002, after cycling through the names Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, and landed on a sound as grey and gleaming as a wet motorway at night. Tom Smith sings with grave conviction and plays guitar and piano, Russell Leetch holds down bass and synths, and Ed Lay drives the drums, with Justin Lockey on lead guitar and Elliott Williams on keys completing the current lineup.
The Back Room, the 2005 debut on Play It Again Sam, was all taut, chiming guitars and nervous urgency, and "Munich" and "Blood" made them contenders; the album picked up a Mercury Prize nomination the next year. An End Has a Start went to number one in Britain in 2007, with the title track, "Bones" and the stately, rain-soaked "Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors", and it earned a Brit nomination for Best British Band.
In This Light and on This Evening topped the British chart again in 2009, and "Papillon" pulses like a dark dance-floor anthem. The Weight of Your Love followed in 2013 with "A Ton of Love" and "Formaldehyde", the self-produced In Dream in 2015 brought "Life is a Fear", and after Violence came EBM in 2022, with the propulsive "Heart Attack" and "Karma Climb".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Editors on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Munich | 13 | #24 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Papillon | 16 | #10 | – | 2009 | |
| 3 | No Sound but the Wind | 14 | #50 | – | – | |
| 4 | Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors | 7 | #24 | – | 2007 | |
| 5 | An End Has a Start | 5 | #19 | – | 2007 | |
| 6 | A Ton of Love | 1 | #2 | – | 2013 | |
| 7 | No sound but the wind (live @werchter) | 1 | #2 | – | 2010 | |
| 8 | Heart Attack | 1 | #39 | – | 2022 | |
| 9 | Karma Climb | 1 | #48 | – | 2022 | |
| 10 | Life is a Fear | 1 | #24 | – | 2015 | |
| 11 | Salvation | 1 | #58 | – | 2016 | |
| 12 | Bones | 1 | #26 | – | 2008 | |
| 13 | Formaldehyde | 1 | #25 | – | 2013 | |
| 14 | All Sparks | 2 | #703 | – | – | |
| 15 | Darkness At The Door | 1 | #57 | – | 2018 | |
| 16 | Picturesque | 1 | #89 | – | 2022 | |
| 17 | Orange Crush | 1 | #710 | – | – | |
| 18 | The racing rats | 1 | #45 | – | 2008 | |
| 19 | The End Has a Start | 1 | #94 | – | 2007 |
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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