Artist · chart history
K. Flay
Solo artist Wilmette United States
K. Flay is an artist from Wilmette. K. Flay has 30 chart appearances on 23 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Blood In The Cut”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted K. Flay most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 12 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
K.Flay, born Kristine Flaherty in 1985 and from Wilmette, sits somewhere between indie rock and alternative hip-hop, a rapper with a rock kid's taste for distortion and a songwriter's eye for the ugly little details. Her 2014 album Life as a Dog climbed to number two on the Heatseekers Albums chart.
The Crush Me EP of 2016 brought "Blood in the Cut", a thudding, bruised, stomping thing with a chorus like a clenched fist, and it went on to lead her 2017 album Every Where Is Some Where. The song got a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song and the album one for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "High Enough" came from the same record, a woozy, heavy-lidded song that crawls rather than runs.
Solutions followed in 2019 with "Sister" and "Bad Vibes", and then Inside Voices / Outside Voices in 2022 and Mono in 2023. Along the way she's teamed up with a long list of collaborators, from Tom Morello and Mike Shinoda to Travis Barker, Pvris and Evanescence.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by K. Flay on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood In The Cut | 12 | #3 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | High Enough | 3 | #7 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | Raw Raw | 2 | #9 | – | 2023 | |
| 4 | Bad Vibes | 2 | #28 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Giver | 2 | #42 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | Sister | 2 | #34 | – | 2019 | |
| 7 | Can't Sleep | 1 | #42 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | Carsick | 1 | #53 | – | 2024 | |
| 9 | West Ghost | 1 | #47 | – | 2013 | |
| 10 | TGIF | 1 | #62 | – | 2021 | |
| 11 | It's Been So Long | 1 | #68 | – | 2023 | |
| 12 | Four Letter Words | 1 | #82 | – | 2021 | |
| 13 | Had Enough | 1 | #90 | – | 2017 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with K. Flay as a guest.
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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