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Joy Division
Band Salford, England United Kingdom Active 1976–1980 English post-punk band
Joy Division formed in 1976 in Salford, England and was active until 1980. Joy Division has 222 chart appearances on 126 radio countdowns from 21 stations on RockLists, spanning 1980–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, which appears on 120 lists and was voted number one three times. In total the artist has topped 5 countdowns. The station that charted Joy Division most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 43 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Joy Division formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 1976 and recorded just two albums, Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980), before singer Ian Curtis died in May 1980 on the eve of the band's first American tour. The remaining members became New Order.
"Love Will Tear Us Apart", released weeks after Curtis's death, has become one of the most honored songs in alternative radio history: it won Triple J's first two all-time Hottest 100 polls (1989 and 1990) and placed second in 1991, topped WOXY's Modern Rock 500 in 2005 and ranks in the top ten of the RockLists all-time consensus.
Songs by Joy Division on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart#2 of all time | 120 | #1 | 3 | 2005 | |
| 2 | Transmission | 19 | #10 | – | – | |
| 3 | She's Lost Control | 20 | #20 | – | – | |
| 4 | Atmosphere | 21 | #1 | 2 | – | |
| 5 | New Dawn Fades | 4 | #4 | – | – | |
| 6 | Decades | 3 | #7 | – | – | |
| 7 | Disorder | 5 | #49 | – | – | |
| 8 | Dead Souls | 3 | #11 | – | – | |
| 9 | Isolation | 7 | #38 | – | – | |
| 10 | Warsaw | 2 | #400 | – | – | |
| 11 | Twenty Four Hours | 4 | #23 | – | – | |
| 12 | Candidate | 2 | #771 | – | – | |
| 13 | Ice Age | 1 | #1273 | – | – | |
| 14 | These Days | 1 | #1586 | – | – | |
| 15 | Atrocity Exhibition | 1 | #621 | – | – | |
| 16 | Ceremony | 1 | #419 | – | – | |
| 17 | Means to an End | 1 | #1859 | – | – | |
| 18 | The Eternal | 1 | #48 | – | – | |
| 19 | A Means to an End | 1 | #1946 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.