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LCD Soundsystem
Band New York United States Formed 2001
LCD Soundsystem formed in 2001 in New York, United States. LCD Soundsystem has 157 chart appearances on 78 radio countdowns from 32 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “All My Friends”, which appears on 21 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted LCD Soundsystem most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 26 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
LCD Soundsystem is James Murphy's baby: a Brooklyn band dreamed up by the DFA Records co-founder that took punk's twitch, disco's pulse and a record collector's obsessive memory and fused them into dance-punk that thinks as hard as it grooves. Murphy sings and plays a lot of everything, backed by Nancy Whang on synths, keys and vocals, Pat Mahoney on drums, Tyler Pope on bass, guitar and synths, Al Doyle on guitar, synths and percussion, and Korey Richey on synths, piano and percussion.
It started with singles, released from 2002 to 2004, and the first of them, "Losing My Edge", is still the calling card: deadpan, talky and bone-dry, riding a beat that just won't quit. The 2005 self-titled debut drew raves and a Grammy nod for Best Electronic/Dance Album, while "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" became their biggest seller and earned its own nomination. Then came "45:33", a 46-minute workout piece for Nike's Nike+ Original Run series, and in 2007 Sound of Silver, which picked up another Best Electronic/Dance Album nomination. That's the one with "All My Friends", which keeps building and building like a night out you don't want to end, the bruised, glittering "Someone Great" and the wisecracking "North American Scum".
This Is Happening, in 2010, gave them their first top-10 album in the US, led by the slow-building explosion of "Dance Yrself Clean", with "I Can Change" and "Home" along for the ride. Then, in February 2011, the band announced the end: one huge farewell show at Madison Square Garden on April 2, 2011, captured in the documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits and later released as the live album The Long Goodbye in April 2014.
The goodbye didn't stick. "Christmas Will Break Your Heart" appeared in December 2015, a reunion and festival tour followed, the band signed to Columbia alongside DFA, and American Dream, in September 2017, became their first number-one album in the US. It was up for Best Alternative Music Album, and "Tonite" won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording. "X-Ray Eyes" turned up in 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by LCD Soundsystem on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All My Friends | 21 | #10 | – | 2008 | |
| 2 | Dance Yrself Clean | 19 | #3 | – | 2010 | |
| 3 | Daft Punk Is Playing At My House | 20 | #51 | – | 2005 | |
| 4 | I Can Change | 17 | #11 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | Someone Great | 11 | #7 | – | – | |
| 6 | North American Scum | 12 | #9 | – | 2007 | |
| 7 | New Body Rhumba | 10 | #4 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Call The Police | 11 | #10 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | Losing My Edge | 6 | #23 | – | – | |
| 10 | Tonite | 6 | #38 | – | 2017 | |
| 11 | X-Ray Eyes | 3 | #41 | – | 2024 | |
| 12 | Oh Baby | 2 | #10 | – | 2018 | |
| 13 | Drunk Girls | 5 | #25 | – | 2010 | |
| 14 | Home | 3 | #155 | – | – | |
| 15 | Give It Up | 2 | #320 | – | – | |
| 16 | Get Innocuous | 1 | #124 | – | – | |
| 17 | All I Want | 1 | #17 | – | 2010 | |
| 18 | american dream | 1 | #27 | – | 2017 | |
| 19 | Disco Infiltrator | 2 | #521 | – | – | |
| 20 | new body rhumba (from the film White Noise) | 1 | #46 | – | 2022 | |
| 21 | (We Don't Need This) Facist Groove Thing | 1 | #588 | – | – | |
| 22 | New York, I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down | 1 | #644 | – | – | |
| 23 | Pow Pow | 1 | #78 | – | 2010 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with LCD Soundsystem 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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