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Liam Lynch

Solo artist Petersburg United States

Liam Lynch is an artist from Petersburg. Liam Lynch has 27 chart appearances on 27 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “United States of Whatever”, which appears on 25 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Liam Lynch most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 11 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.

27appearances

27countdowns

3songs charted

16stations

0#1 finishes

2002–2022years

Liam Lynch, born William Patrick Niederst in 1970, is less a rock star than a one-man comedy factory who happens to own a guitar. While studying at LIPA in Liverpool he co-created, wrote, directed, scored and produced The Sifl and Olly Show, a puppet series that ran on MTV in 1998, and the wiseacre spirit of that show runs straight through his music.

"United States of Whatever" is the proof: a quick, snotty blast of hard rock with a smirk all over it, and it cracked the top ten in both Australia and the United Kingdom. S-Curve Records put him out, and alternative radio couldn't resist it.

After that he mostly stepped behind the camera. He directed the video for Tenacious D's "Tribute" and then their 2006 film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, wrote the music for the 2002 MTV cartoon Clone High, co-wrote a song for the 2003 film School of Rock, directed Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, and shot videos for Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Royal Blood and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Liam Lynch on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	United States of Whatever	567	25	#5	–	2003
2	Whatever	81	1	#20	–	2003
3	United States of Whatever (Live 105 version)	28	1	#77	–	2003

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

2000History of America?2 charting songs

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

02 03

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2022	909	United States of Whatever	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2014	1728	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1708	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	1707	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	1689	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	1710	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	1715	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	1698	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005	1890	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1909	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	106.7	United States of Whatever	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2003
2003	18	United States of Whatever	91X Top 91 Songs of 2003
2003	77	United States of Whatever (Live 105 version)	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003
2003	83	United States of Whatever	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003
2003	99.1	United States of Whatever	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2003
2003	70	United States of Whatever	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003
2003	99	United States of Whatever	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003
2003	5	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003
2003	58	United States of Whatever	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003
2003	104.9	United States of Whatever	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2003
2003	18	United States of Whatever	WBCN Top 104 Songs of 2003
2003	20	Whatever	KDGE Top 102 Songs of 2003
2003	76	United States of Whatever	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003
2003	81	United States of Whatever	Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2003
2003	1909	United States of Whatever	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	105.3	United States of Whatever	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002
2002	62	United States of Whatever	The End Top 107 Songs of 2002

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