Artist · chart history
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Band Melbourne Australia Formed 2010
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has 29 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2016–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Deadstick”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #39. The station that charted King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard most often is Indie 102.3 (Denver, CO), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard formed in Melbourne in 2010 and have spent the years since treating the album as a renewable resource. The lineup today is Stu Mackenzie on vocals, guitar and flute, Ambrose Kenny-Smith on vocals, harmonica and keys, Cook Craig and Joey Walker on guitars and vocals, Lucas Harwood on bass and Michael Cavanagh on drums; Eric Moore, who also played drums, left in 2020.
The early records mixed surf and garage rock and came out on the band's own Flightless label before psychedelic rock took over. Paper Mâché Dream Balloon in 2015 went soft and folky, with "Sense" drifting through the haze, and Nonagon Infinity in 2016 went the other way entirely: a pedal-to-the-floor rush of a record, "Gamma Knife" and "Robot Stop" among its blasts, that won the ARIA for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album and finally got the wider world paying attention.
Then came 2017, when they promised five studio albums in a single calendar year and delivered. Flying Microtonal Banana opened a trilogy of microtonal records with the woozy "Nuclear Fusion", and Polygondwanaland brought "Crumbling Castle". Metal, synth-pop and prog have all been folded in since, along with environmental themes and a shared fictional universe fans call the Gizzverse. "The Dripping Tap" came off Omnium Gatherum in 2022, and the pace never lets up: Alien Metal, their 28th studio album, was surprise-released on 14 August 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deadstick | 6 | #39 | – | 2025 | |
| 2 | Magenta Mountain | 2 | #9 | – | 2022 | |
| 3 | Catching Smoke | 1 | #16 | – | 2021 | |
| 4 | Le Risque | 1 | #19 | – | 2024 | |
| 5 | Field Of Vision | 2 | #48 | – | 2024 | |
| 6 | Shanghai | 1 | #18 | – | 2021 | |
| 7 | Hate Dancin' | 2 | #58 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Rattlesnake | 1 | #46 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | Gila Monster | 2 | #80 | – | 2023 | |
| 10 | The Dripping Tap | 1 | #383 | – | – | |
| 11 | Sense | 1 | #443 | – | – | |
| 12 | Gamma Knife | 1 | #61 | – | 2016 | |
| 13 | Intrasport | 1 | #70 | – | 2021 | |
| 14 | Honey | 1 | #72 | – | 2020 | |
| 15 | Nuclear Fusion | 1 | #73 | – | 2017 | |
| 16 | Robot Stop | 1 | #576 | – | – | |
| 17 | Crumbling Castle | 1 | #584 | – | – | |
| 18 | Theia | 1 | #90 | – | 2023 | |
| 19 | Pop In My Step | 1 | #708 | – | – | |
| 20 | Iron Lung | 1 | #86 | – | 2022 |
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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