Artist · chart history
Kills
Band London United Kingdom Formed 2000
Kills formed in 2000 in London, United Kingdom. Kills has 24 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Future Starts Slow”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #17. The station that charted Kills most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
The Kills are two people making the dirtiest racket in rock and roll. Formed in London in 2000, the duo pairs American singer Alison Mosshart, known as VV, with English guitarist Jamie Hince, known as Hotel, and they have made a career out of pure tension: her voice smoking and sneering, his guitar slashing out jagged blues riffs.
Signed to Domino, they put out Keep On Your Mean Side, No Wow, Midnight Boom and Blood Pressures, and all 4 found their way onto the UK Albums Chart. No Wow was the bleak, minimal one, stripping garage rock down to its bones. Blood Pressures in 2011 opened the sound up without losing the menace; "Future Starts Slow" drags its heels in the most seductive way, and "Baby Says" shows they can swoon when they want to.
Ash & Ice in 2016 climbed high on the UK chart, with "Doing It to Death" and "Heart of a Dog" keeping the grind lean and nocturnal, and God Games in 2023 brought "New York" and "103". More than 2 decades in, the formula hasn't softened: one voice, one guitar, and all that space between them crackling.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kills on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Future Starts Slow | 5 | #17 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | New York | 5 | #15 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Doing It To Death | 2 | #21 | – | 2016 | |
| 4 | Heart of a Dog | 3 | #59 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Nail In My Coffin | 2 | #83 | – | 2012 | |
| 6 | 103 | 2 | #48 | – | 2024 | |
| 7 | U.R.A. Fever | 1 | #71 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | Baby Says | 1 | #59 | – | 2012 | |
| 9 | Cheap and Cheerful | 1 | #84 | – | 2009 | |
| 10 | No Wow / Telephone Radio Germany | 1 | #654 | – | – | |
| 11 | DNA | 1 | #92 | – | 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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