Artist · chart history
Hippo Campus
Band Minneapolis United States Formed 2013
Hippo Campus formed in 2013 in Minneapolis, United States. Hippo Campus has 39 chart appearances on 27 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Bambi”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Hippo Campus most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2024.
Hippo Campus came together in Minnesota in 2013, a band whose ears pointed firmly across the ocean, toward British and Australian indie: Bombay Bicycle Club, Little Comets, Last Dinosaurs, King Krule. Jake Luppen and Nathan Stocker knot their guitars around each other and share the vocals, Luppen out front, while Zach Sutton on bass and Whistler Allen on drums keep everything skittering along, with DeCarlo Jackson rounding out the current lineup.
The Tarzan Reject EP, with "South" and "Little Grace", introduced them the same year they started, and Bashful Creatures in 2015 brought the nervy, sunlit rush of "Suicide Saturday". The first full-length, Landmark, arrived in 2017, all bright, jittery hooks on "Way It Goes", "Monsoon" and "Boyish", and NPR Music counted them among its favorite new artists that year. Bambi followed in 2018, then LP3 in 2022 and Flood in 2024.
The road has taken them from South by Southwest and Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo and Reading and Leeds, with a stop on Conan along the way. They record for Psychic Hotline in the US and Transgressive Records in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Hippo Campus on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bambi | 11 | #10 | – | 2018 | |
| 2 | Paranoid | 6 | #25 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | Way It Goes | 3 | #17 | – | 2017 | |
| 4 | Suicide Saturday | 3 | #2 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | South | 2 | #9 | – | 2015 | |
| 6 | Ride Or Die | 4 | #49 | – | 2022 | |
| 7 | Dollar Bill | 2 | #392 | – | – | |
| 8 | Monsoon | 2 | #54 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | Little Grace | 2 | #56 | – | 2014 | |
| 10 | Souls | 1 | #45 | – | 2015 | |
| 11 | Boyish | 1 | #46 | – | 2016 | |
| 12 | Violet | 1 | #57 | – | 2016 | |
| 13 | baseball | 1 | #82 | – | 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.
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about Hippo Campus.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.