Artist · chart history
Highly Suspect
Band Massachusetts United States Formed 2009
Highly Suspect formed in 2009 in Massachusetts, United States. Highly Suspect has 40 chart appearances on 33 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2015–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “My Name Is Human”, which appears on 12 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Highly Suspect most often is The Buzz (Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
Highly Suspect started out on Cape Cod as a bar cover band, which is about as unglamorous a beginning as rock allows, and turned themselves into a Grammy-nominated rock band with a very dark streak. Twin brothers Rich and Ryan Meyer hold down bass and drums, and Johnny Stevens sings lead and plays guitar with a voice that sounds like it gargles gravel and heartbreak; Matt Kofos and Mark Schwartz fill out the sound on guitars, synths and keyboards.
They moved to Brooklyn and made The Worst Humans EP in 2012, with Joel Hamilton producing. "Lydia", a bruised, surging slow-burner, soon became their calling card. Their first album, Mister Asylum, arrived in 2015 and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album, with "Lydia" up for Best Rock Song.
The Boy Who Died Wolf, in 2016, is where it all exploded: "My Name Is Human" hit number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and the aching, woozy "Little One" went to number 2. MCID, in 2019, pushed them further into moody, genre-smudged territory, with "16" as its calling card, and they have kept going since with The Midnight Demon Club and As Above, So Below.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Highly Suspect on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Name Is Human | 12 | #1 | 1 | 2016 | |
| 2 | Little One | 8 | #6 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | Lydia | 5 | #10 | – | 2015 | |
| 4 | 16 | 7 | #6 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Natural Born Killer | 2 | #12 | – | 2022 | |
| 6 | Bloodfeather | 1 | #17 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | These Days | 1 | #39 | – | 2020 | |
| 8 | Ice Cold | 1 | #44 | – | 2023 | |
| 9 | Plastic Boxes | 1 | #21 | – | 2024 | |
| 10 | Summertime Voodoo | 2 | #85 | – | 2024 |
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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