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King Princess
Solo artist Brooklyn United States
King Princess is an artist from Brooklyn. King Princess has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2018–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “1950”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #34. The station that charted King Princess most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
King Princess is Mikaela Mullaney Straus, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Brooklyn, born in 1998, who landed on Mark Ronson's Zelig Records, an imprint of Columbia. Her first single, "1950", dropped in February 2018 and did what debut singles almost never do: it charted in several countries and went platinum in the United States. It anchored the Make My Bed EP later that year, and her next single, "Talia", went gold in Australia.
Cheap Queen, her first full album in 2019, drew wide critical praise. Hold on Baby followed in 2022, and "Let Us Die" shows where her head was at: a bigger, rougher band sound, guitars pushed forward and a singer who sounds more comfortable being loud.
She has since parted ways with Zelig, releasing Girl Violence through Section1 in 2025, the same year she made her acting debut in Nine Perfect Strangers. Whatever she's doing, she makes vulnerability sound like swagger.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by King Princess on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1950 | 5 | #34 | – | 2018 | |
| 2 | Let Us Die | 2 | #43 | – | 2022 | |
| 3 | Ain't Together | 1 | #48 | – | 2019 | |
| 4 | Pussy is God | 1 | #74 | – | 2018 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 489 | Let Us Die | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now |
| 2022 | 43 | Let Us Die | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022 |
| 2019 | 48 | Ain't Together | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2019 |
| 2018 | 74 | 1950 | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 |
| 2018 | 35 | 1950 | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2018 |
| 2018 | 44 | 1950 | WEXT Top 97 of 2018 |
| 2018 | 66 | 1950 | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 |
| 2018 | 34 | 1950 | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 |
| 2018 | 74 | Pussy is God | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 |
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