Artist · chart history
Family Of The Year
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 2009
Family Of The Year formed in 2009 in Los Angeles, United States. Family Of The Year has 14 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2018. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hero”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Family Of The Year most often is Lightning 100 (Nashville, TN), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
Family of the Year are a Los Angeles band formed in 2009, with Joseph Keefe on vocals and guitar, Sebastian Keefe on drums, James Buckey on guitar and Christina Schroeter on keyboards, and everybody singing. Those voices are the whole game: sweet, tangled male and female harmonies wrapped around lyrics that read like old folk tales.
"Hero", from the Through the Trees EP, is the song everybody knows, a gentle, wistful strummer, and it found a much bigger audience once Richard Linklater put it in his 2014 film Boyhood. It became a top 10 hit in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, a long way from a Los Angeles EP. It's a quiet song, but it has a way of getting under your skin.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Family Of The Year on radio countdowns
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 78 | Bitter Mind | WBER Listener Countdown 2018 |
| 2018 | 855 | St. Croix | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 |
| 2015 | 86 | St. Croix | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2015 |
| 2014 | 1148 | Hero | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) |
| 2013 | 13 | Hero | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 38 | Hero | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 3 | Hero | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 11 | Hero | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 37 | Hero | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 39 | Hero | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 40 | Hero | WCYY Year End Top 50 of 2013 |
| 2013 | 52 | Hero | 97X Top 97 of 2013 |
| 2012 | 47 | Hero | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 86 | Hero | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012 |
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