Artist · chart history
Huffamoose
Band United States Active 1992–2001
Huffamoose formed in 1992 in the United States and was active until 2001. Huffamoose has 13 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1998–2019. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Wait”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #97. The station that charted Huffamoose most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.
Huffamoose came together in Philadelphia around 1992 with Craig Elkins singing and playing guitar, Kevin Hanson on guitar and vocals, Jim Stager on bass and Erik Johnson on drums, a lineup that held steady for years. They had a goofy name, a knack for a hook and a seat right in the middle of the alternative rock of the day.
We've Been Had Again, from 1997, carried "Wait", still the song the band is best known for. In 1999 Johnson quit after a Horde Tour stop and Chuck Treece took over the drums, and the band's climb toward next-big-thing status and its eventual collapse were later chronicled in the documentary Here Comes Huffamoose.
Philadelphia hadn't heard the last of them, though. The original four reunited for ...And That's When the Golf Ball Hit Me in the Head, their first album in 14 years, released on Winding Way Records on November 23, 2018, and they played Ardmore Music Hall and WXPN's World Cafe Live that year. In 2025 they came back once more for a September 11 show at Ardmore Music Hall.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Huffamoose on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | 12 | #97 | – | 1998 | |
| 2 | Buy You a Ring | 1 | #173 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 718 | Wait | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 718 | Wait | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2016 | 395 | Wait | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 |
| 2009 | 173 | Buy You a Ring | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2005 | 1819 | Wait | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) |
| 2004 | 1825 | Wait | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) |
| 2003 | 1825 | Wait | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) |
| 2002 | 1851 | Wait | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) |
| 2001 | 1865 | Wait | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) |
| 2000 | 1858 | Wait | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) |
| 1999 | 1858 | Wait | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) |
| 1998 | 97 | Wait | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 |
| 1998 | 97 | Wait | Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 |
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