Artist · chart history
Frightened Rabbit
Band Selkirk United Kingdom Formed 2003
Frightened Rabbit formed in 2003 in Selkirk, United Kingdom. Frightened Rabbit has 72 chart appearances on 40 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Swim Until You Can't See Land”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #11. The station that charted Frightened Rabbit most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 27 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Frightened Rabbit started in Selkirk in 2003 as a solo project for singer and guitarist Scott Hutchison, and grew into a band of bruising, heart-on-sleeve intensity. His brother Grant joined on drums, Billy Kennedy came in on guitar and bass, and from 2004 the band called Glasgow home. Sing the Greys arrived on the independent label Hits the Fan in 2006.
Signing to Fat Cat in 2007, they made The Midnight Organ Fight, with Andy Monaghan joining on guitar and keyboards; its "The Modern Leper" is indie rock that builds like weather. The Winter of Mixed Drinks followed in 2010, with Gordon Skene added and "Swim Until You Can't See Land" swelling toward the horizon, and later that year the band signed to Atlantic. Pedestrian Verse, with "The Woodpile", reached number nine on the UK Albums Chart in 2013, and Simon Liddell came aboard. In 2015 they cut Painting of a Panic Attack in New York with the National's Aaron Dessner producing, giving "Get Out" and "I Wish I Was Sober" a darker, more spacious sheen.
Scott Hutchison died by suicide in May 2018, and the remaining members said Frightened Rabbit no longer exists. That December they played together again at a charity gig in Glasgow, with guest singers taking his place at the microphone.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Frightened Rabbit on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swim Until You Can't See Land | 16 | #11 | – | 2010 | |
| 2 | The Woodpile | 17 | #13 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Get Out | 15 | #28 | – | 2016 | |
| 4 | I Wish I Was Sober | 8 | #37 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Good Arms vs. Bad Arms | 4 | #98 | – | – | |
| 6 | Head Rolls Off | 2 | #109 | – | – | |
| 7 | The Modern Leper | 4 | #229 | – | – | |
| 8 | Dead Now | 1 | #43 | – | 2013 | |
| 9 | Holy | 1 | #656 | – | – | |
| 10 | Old Old Fashioned | 1 | #424 | – | – | |
| 11 | Nothing Like You | 1 | #62 | – | 2010 | |
| 12 | Acts of Man | 1 | #612 | – | – | |
| 13 | How It Gets In | 1 | #76 | – | 2017 |
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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