Artist · chart history
J. Roddy Walston and the Business
Band Cleveland United States Active 2002–2019
J. Roddy Walston and the Business formed in 2002 in Cleveland, United States and was active until 2019. J. Roddy Walston and the Business has 43 chart appearances on 34 radio countdowns from 19 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Heavy Bells”, which appears on 15 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted J. Roddy Walston and the Business most often is WTMD (Baltimore, MD), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
J. Roddy Walston and the Business got going in Cleveland, Tennessee, in 2002 and made their home base in Richmond, Virginia: a rock and roll band in the most unfashionable, most joyful sense. Walston sang, played guitar and, above all, beat the living daylights out of a piano; Billy Gordon played lead guitar, Logan Davis played bass and Steve Colmus was on drums, and the Business all chipped in on the vocals.
Their reputation was made on stage, where they were a sweaty, rollicking proposition, and Essential Tremors, their 2013 album on ATO Records, caught a good deal of that heat. "Heavy Bells" rides a stomping, gospel-tinged groove, and "Take It As It Comes" swaggers like a Southern rock band that has heard a few punk records. Destroyers of the Soft Life followed in 2017, with "The Wanting" among its songs.
Late in 2019 they told fans on social media that the band would wrap up by the close of the year. They left behind two albums of pounding keys and big, open-throated choruses, the sort of stuff that sounds best turned all the way up.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by J. Roddy Walston and the Business on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heavy Bells | 15 | #1 | 1 | 2013 | |
| 2 | Take It As It Comes | 7 | #5 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | The Wanting | 7 | #23 | – | 2017 | |
| 4 | Don't Break The Needle | 4 | #6 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | You Know Me Better | 1 | #12 | – | 2018 | |
| 6 | Marigold | 4 | #22 | – | 2013 | |
| 7 | Don't Get Old | 1 | #28 | – | 2010 | |
| 8 | Usede to Did | 1 | #84 | – | 2011 | |
| 9 | Sweat Shock | 2 | #91 | – | 2015 | |
| 10 | Brave Man's Death | 1 | #78 | – | 2010 |
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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