Artist · chart history
Hop Along
Band Philadelphia Formed 2005
Hop Along formed in 2005 in Philadelphia. Hop Along has 5 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2018–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “How Simple”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #40. The station that charted Hop Along most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Hop Along started as a one-person show: Frances Quinlan playing acoustic freak folk as Hop Along, Queen Ansleis, a project begun in their senior year of high school in Philadelphia. The first half of the name came from a school nickname for being a slow walker; the second is Queen Anne's lace, the wildflower, misspelled on purpose so it could pass for a character. Quinlan put out a debut album, Freshman Year, in the summer of 2005 and spent several years playing alone, less out of choice than because a band simply wouldn't come together.
Three years after that first record, their brother Mark Quinlan came in on drums, and Tyler Long and Joe Reinhart round out the lineup. Everything still starts with Frances Quinlan's voice, a rasp that can go from a murmur to a full-throated howl inside a single line, while the band plays scrappy, folk-rooted rock that keeps swerving just when you think you know where a song is headed.
Get Disowned, in 2012, is where a lot of listeners came in, and it carries the wiry, restless "Tibetan Pop Stars". Bark Your Head Off, Dog followed in 2018 with "Prior Things", proof of how far the songwriting had stretched in the meantime. Saddle Creek is the label behind them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Hop Along on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How Simple | 2 | #40 | – | 2018 | |
| 2 | Tibetan Pop Stars | 1 | #432 | – | – | |
| 3 | Prior Things | 2 | #40 | – | 2018 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 432 | Tibetan Pop Stars | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) |
| 2020 | 1486 | Prior Things | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2018 | 40 | Prior Things | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018 |
| 2018 | 40 | How Simple | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2018 |
| 2018 | 47 | How Simple | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018 |
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