Artist · chart history
Ladytron
Band Liverpool United Kingdom Formed 1999 UK electronic band
Ladytron formed in 1999 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Ladytron has 11 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Destroy Everything You Touch”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #17. The station that charted Ladytron most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
Ladytron took their name from a Roxy Music song, and they have always made art-school cool and pop hooks share the same room. Formed in Liverpool in 1999, they pair Helen Marnie's lead vocals with Mira Aroyo's, surround them with a wall of synthesizers, and let Daniel Hunt add guitar to the mix, with Reuben Wu on synths from the start until 2023. Some songs even carry lyrics Aroyo wrote in her native Bulgarian.
After 604 in 2001, Light & Magic in 2002 brought "Seventeen", a cold, deadpan synth-pop jab that sounds like it was chilled in a morgue. Witching Hour, in 2005, is where they got bigger and darker: fuzzier, more urgent, with "Destroy Everything You Touch" as its thundering, gorgeous centerpiece. They call it electronic pop; critics have also filed them under synth-pop and electronic rock.
The run kept going with Velocifero, Gravity the Seducer, a self-titled album in 2019, Time's Arrow in 2023 and Paradises in 2026, and they have remixed everyone from Erasure and Goldfrapp to Blondie, Nine Inch Nails and Christina Aguilera. Brian Eno, once of Roxy Music himself, has counted them among the best of English pop.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ladytron on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Destroy Everything You Touch | 5 | #17 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | City of Angels | 1 | #16 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Ghosts | 1 | #39 | – | 2008 | |
| 4 | Predict The Day | 2 | #75 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | Seventeen | 1 | #31 | – | 2002 | |
| 6 | Tomorrow | 1 | #65 | – | 2010 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16 | City of Angels | KALX 200 Most Played New Songs in 2023 |
| 2022 | 179 | Destroy Everything You Touch | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2019 | 293 | Destroy Everything You Touch | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time |
| 2010 | 65 (tie) | Tomorrow | WBER Listener Countdown 2010 |
| 2009 | 75 | Predict The Day | WBER Listener Countdown 2009 |
| 2008 | 39 (tie) | Ghosts | WBER Listener Countdown 2008 |
| 2008 | 86 (tie) | Predict The Day | WBER Listener Countdown 2008 |
| 2006 | 70 | Destroy Everything You Touch | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2006 |
| 2006 | 50 | Destroy Everything You Touch | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2006 |
| 2006 | 17 (tie) | Destroy Everything You Touch | WBER Listener Countdown 2006 |
| 2002 | 31 | Seventeen | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2002 |
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