Artist · chart history
Fontaines D.C.
Band Dublin Ireland Formed 2014
Fontaines D.C. formed in 2014 in Dublin, Ireland. Fontaines D.C. has 115 chart appearances on 67 radio countdowns from 26 stations on RockLists, spanning 2019–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Starburster”, which appears on 21 lists and was voted number one three times. In total the artist has topped 6 countdowns. The station that charted Fontaines D.C. most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2024.
Fontaines D.C. came together at BIMM Dublin: Grian Chatten on vocals, Conor Curley and Carlos O'Connell on guitars, Conor "Deego" Deegan III on bass and Tom Coll on drums. They signed to Partisan Records in 2018 and followed with Dogrel in 2019, a debut that had critics lining up to crown it. Rough Trade and the presenters at BBC Radio 6 Music both named it album of the year, and it drew nominations for the Mercury Prize and the Choice Music Prize. The sound is post-punk with the city in its bloodstream, wiry guitars and a restless rhythm section under Chatten's flat, rolling, unhurried delivery.
A Hero's Death arrived in 2020 and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Skinty Fia, in 2022, became their first number-one album in both Ireland and the UK and helped land them the Brit Award for International Group; "Jackie Down the Line" and "Roman Holiday" gave the countdowns something to chew on. They got filed alongside a whole wave of rising British and Irish post-punk bands, but they kept changing shape.
Romance, in 2024, was the leap. Its first-week sales more than doubled those of the last album, it picked up 2 Grammy nominations and another Mercury nod, and its lead single "Starburster" became the band's first song to chart in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Fontaines D.C. on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starburster | 21 | #1 | 3 | 2024 | |
| 2 | Favorite | 18 | #3 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | It's Amazing To Be Young | 17 | #1 | 2 | 2025 | |
| 4 | Jackie Down The Line | 13 | #1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| 5 | Boys In The Better Land | 10 | #4 | – | 2019 | |
| 6 | A Hero's Death | 6 | #3 | – | 2020 | |
| 7 | Roman Holiday | 10 | #4 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Televised Mind | 5 | #77 | – | 2020 | |
| 9 | Sundowner | 1 | #6 | – | 2024 | |
| 10 | In The Modern World | 2 | #43 | – | 2024 | |
| 11 | Here's the Thing | 2 | #22 | – | 2025 | |
| 12 | Skinty Fia | 1 | #41 | – | 2023 | |
| 13 | One | 1 | #409 | – | – | |
| 14 | 'Cello Song | 3 | #63 | – | 2023 | |
| 15 | In ár gCroíthe go deo | 2 | #611 | – | – | |
| 16 | I Love You | 1 | #662 | – | – | |
| 17 | Big | 1 | #565 | – | – | |
| 18 | Romance | 1 | #694 | – | – |
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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