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Glass Animals
Band Oxford United Kingdom Formed 2010
Glass Animals formed in 2010 in Oxford, United Kingdom. Glass Animals has 117 chart appearances on 84 radio countdowns from 24 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Heat Waves”, which appears on 17 lists and was voted number one twice. In total the artist has topped 4 countdowns. The station that charted Glass Animals most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 15 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Glass Animals came out of Oxford with Dave Bayley at the center, writing the songs and handling vocals, guitar, keyboards and some drums, alongside Drew MacFarlane on guitar and keyboards, Edmund Irwin-Singer on bass and keyboards, and Joe Seaward on drums. Their sound is psychedelic pop by way of the laptop: woozy synths, rubbery grooves and hooks that sneak up on you rather than knock the door down.
ZABA, in 2014, gave them "Gooey", a slow, sticky jam that eventually went platinum in the US and put the band on the map worldwide. How to Be a Human Being followed in 2016, a sharper, more colorful set that made the Mercury Prize shortlist and won 2 categories at the 2018 MPG Awards, including UK Album of the Year.
Then came Dreamland in 2020, which reached number two in the UK and number 7 in America, and inside it "Heat Waves", a hazy, slow-rolling earworm that went viral on TikTok during the pandemic and just kept climbing. It topped the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2020, hit number one in Australia in February 2021, and eventually went all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The band landed a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist at the 2022 Grammys, and I Love You So F***ing Much. followed in 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Glass Animals on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat Waves | 17 | #1 | 2 | 2020 | |
| 2 | Gooey | 19 | #2 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Life Itself | 16 | #1 | 1 | 2016 | |
| 4 | I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) | 8 | #1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| 5 | Your Love (Déjà Vu) | 12 | #22 | – | 2020 | |
| 6 | Creatures In Heaven | 9 | #7 | – | 2024 | |
| 7 | Black Mambo | 6 | #8 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | Tangerine | 4 | #9 | – | 2020 | |
| 9 | A Tear in Space (Airlock) | 6 | #8 | – | 2024 | |
| 10 | Pork Soda | 3 | #12 | – | 2017 | |
| 11 | Youth | 2 | #38 | – | 2016 | |
| 12 | Wonderful Nothing | 1 | #6 | – | 2024 | |
| 13 | Vampire Bat | 3 | #43 | – | 2025 | |
| 14 | Agnes | 1 | #20 | – | 2017 | |
| 15 | Tokyo Drifting | 1 | #34 | – | 2019 | |
| 16 | I Don't Wanna Talk | 1 | #28 | – | 2021 | |
| 17 | Your Love | 1 | #30 | – | 2020 | |
| 18 | Say My Name (originally by Destiny's Child) | 1 | #62 | – | – | |
| 19 | A Tear in Space | 1 | #56 | – | 2025 | |
| 20 | Pools | 2 | #99 | – | 2014 | |
| 21 | Season 2 Episode 3 | 1 | #98 | – | 2016 | |
| 22 | Toes | 1 | #96 | – | 2014 |
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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