Artist · chart history
Horrors
Band Southend-on-Sea United Kingdom Formed 2005 UK psychedelic/garage rock band
Horrors formed in 2005 in Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Horrors has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2014. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “So Now You Know”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #56. The station that charted Horrors most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
The Horrors formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005, starting out as a garage punk racket and shedding skins ever since. Faris Badwan sang, Joshua Hayward played guitar, Tom Furse handled keyboards and synths, Rhys Webb played bass and Joe Spurgeon drummed, and together they worked through gothic rock, shoegaze and post-punk revival like a band flipping through a crate of old records at high speed.
The debut, Strange House, came in 2007, and Primary Colours followed in 2009, but it was Skying, in 2011, that brought them onto rock radio with "Still Life", a slow, swelling wave of synths and chiming guitars that sounded miles from their scrappy beginnings. Luminous, in 2014, pushed further into shimmering, dance-tinged psychedelia, and "So Now You Know" carried it onto the countdowns.
V arrived in 2017 and Night Life in 2025, with every album before it reaching the UK Top 40. The lineup has shifted, with Badwan and Webb now joined by Amelia Kidd on keyboards and backing vocals, Jordan Cook on drums and John Victor on guitar, but the restless urge to remake themselves remains.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Horrors on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So Now You Know | 1 | #56 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | Still Life | 1 | #78 | – | 2011 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 56 | So Now You Know | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2014 |
| 2011 | 78 | Still Life | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 |
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