Artist · chart history
Flobots
Band Denver United States Formed 2000
Flobots formed in 2000 in Denver, United States. Flobots has 39 chart appearances on 32 radio countdowns from 22 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Handlebars”, which appears on 18 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Flobots most often is KSLG (Eureka (Humboldt County), CA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
Flobots are a Denver band that blurs the line between hip-hop crew and rock outfit, the project of Jamie Laurie, who'd been working on a similar idea for years before the group came together. The sound is experimental hip-hop with an alternative rock engine under the hood, rapped rather than crooned, and built for a crowd to shout back.
"Handlebars" turned up early on Platypus and then got its big moment on Fight With Tools, their major-label debut in 2007. It's a slow-building, tick-tock track that keeps swelling until it's a full-on stomp, and in April 2008 modern rock radio picked it up, which put a Colorado hip-hop band on the same playlists as the guitar crowd. "Rise" and "Stand Up" kept the rallying cries coming from the same record, Survival Story followed in 2010, and the band has since stretched its catalog to four studio albums and an EP, the latest being Noenemies in 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Flobots on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Handlebars | 18 | #2 | – | 2008 | |
| 2 | White Flag Warrior | 12 | #29 | – | 2010 | |
| 3 | Rise | 5 | #49 | – | 2008 | |
| 4 | Gaslamp Bars | 1 | #20 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | Stand Up | 2 | #55 | – | 2009 | |
| 6 | Roseville Bars | 1 | #101 | – | 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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