Artist · chart history
Idles
Band Bristol United Kingdom Formed 2009 post‐punk
Idles formed in 2009 in Bristol, United Kingdom. Idles has 23 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2020–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Colossus”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #66. The station that charted Idles most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Idles formed in Bristol in 2009 and spent eight years sharpening themselves on stage before their debut album, Brutalism, finally landed in 2017 to critical acclaim. The lineup is Joe Talbot on vocals, Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan on guitars, Adam Devonshire on bass and Jon Beavis on drums, and together they make post-punk that sounds like a pub brawl organized by people with something to say.
Joy as an Act of Resistance, in 2018, blew the doors open. "Colossus" starts as a slow, creeping menace and ends in a stampede, while "Danny Nedelko" bounces on a big, shout-along chorus, and the album carried them to a much wider audience. Talbot barks, bellows and croons over guitars that scrape and clang, and Beavis and Devonshire hammer the rhythm down like fence posts.
The records kept climbing. Ultra Mono, in 2020, with "Model Village", became their first UK number one album, and CRAWLER followed in 2021 with "The Beachland Ballroom", a soul-scorched slow burn, and the jittery "Crawl". TANGK, in 2024, brought "Dancer" and "POP POP POP" and became their second UK chart-topper, and in 2025 they wrote the score for Darren Aronofsky's film Caught Stealing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Idles on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colossus | 2 | #66 | – | – | |
| 2 | Dancer | 5 | #38 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Model Village | 3 | #46 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | The Beachland Ballroom | 3 | #32 | – | 2021 | |
| 5 | Crawl | 2 | #7 | – | 2022 | |
| 6 | Danny Nedelko | 2 | #159 | – | – | |
| 7 | POP POP POP | 2 | #28 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Gift Horse | 2 | #48 | – | 2025 | |
| 9 | Mr. Motivator | 1 | #14 | – | 2020 | |
| 10 | Grounds | 1 | #42 | – | 2020 |
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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