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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 2005
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros formed in 2005 in Los Angeles, United States. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros has 99 chart appearances on 69 radio countdowns from 33 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Home”, which appears on 57 lists and was voted number one four times. In total the artist has topped 4 countdowns. The station that charted Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros were never actually fronted by anyone called Edward Sharpe. The name came from a story singer Alex Ebert wrote as a kid about a messianic figure, and the ragged, sprawling band he assembled in Los Angeles in 2005 looked and sounded like a hippie commune that had wandered in from the late '60s, pulling roots rock, folk, gospel and psychedelia into one big singalong.
They played their first show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood in 2007, and Up From Below followed in 2009. It carried "Home", a ramshackle, sun-dazed singalong that became their calling card and the tune the countdowns keep coming back to. Here arrived in 2012, with "Man on Fire", and a self-titled album followed in 2013, bringing "Better Days".
The lineup never sat still, and the biggest change came in 2014, when singer Jade Castrinos and the band went their separate ways. Their fourth album, PersonA, came out in 2016. Away from the records, the band also ran Big Sun, a nonprofit that put money into co-ops and land trusts in cities around the world.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home | 57 | #1 | 4 | 2010 | |
| 2 | 40 Day Dream | 14 | #10 | – | 2010 | |
| 3 | Man On Fire | 9 | #13 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | Better Days | 7 | #28 | – | 2013 | |
| 5 | Janglin' | 3 | #11 | – | 2010 | |
| 6 | That's What's Up | 3 | #77 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | Life is Hard | 2 | #158 | – | 2013 | |
| 8 | Carries On | 1 | #25 | – | 2010 | |
| 9 | Fiya Wata | 1 | #408 | – | – | |
| 10 | Forty (40) Day Dream | 1 | #609 | – | – | |
| 11 | No Love Like Yours | 1 | #74 | – | 2016 |
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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