Artist · chart history
Joy Formidable
Band Wales Formed 2007
Joy Formidable formed in 2007 in Wales. Joy Formidable has 51 chart appearances on 42 radio countdowns from 27 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Whirring”, which appears on 27 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Joy Formidable most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
The Joy Formidable formed in Mold, Flintshire, in 2007 around Ritzy Bryan, who sings and plays guitar, and Rhydian Dafydd on bass and vocals, and they have since made London their base. The A Balloon Called Moaning EP in 2008 introduced them with "Whirring", a song that starts out shimmering and ends up a howling squall of guitar, the sound of a small band that wants to be enormous.
Matt Thomas joined in 2009, and on the full-length debut, The Big Roar, in 2011 they lived up to the title, with "A Heavy Abacus" among the walls of noise. Wolf's Law in 2013 brought "Cholla" and "This Ladder Is Ours", Hitch followed in 2016 with "The Last Thing on My Mind", and Into the Blue arrived in 2021. Thomas stayed until 2024, and today the band is Bryan and Dafydd.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Joy Formidable on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whirring | 27 | #4 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | A Heavy Abacus | 8 | #15 | – | 2011 | |
| 3 | This Ladder Is Ours | 5 | #28 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | The Last Thing on My Mind | 2 | #39 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Cholla | 1 | #38 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade | 1 | #399 | – | – | |
| 7 | Last Think on My Mind | 1 | #53 | – | 2016 | |
| 8 | Into The Blue | 3 | #84 | – | 2021 | |
| 9 | Cut Your Face | 1 | #62 | – | 2023 | |
| 10 | Austere | 1 | #661 | – | – | |
| 11 | Endtapes (Twilight New Dawn ST) | 1 | #93 | – | 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.
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