Artist · chart history
Lucius
Band Brooklyn United States Formed 2005 US indie pop band
Lucius formed in 2005 in Brooklyn, United States. Lucius has 70 chart appearances on 47 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Next To Normal”, which appears on 14 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Lucius most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 12 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2022.
Lucius is built on two voices that sound like one: Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, the band's lead singers, harmonizing so tightly it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. They started in Brooklyn with Dan Molad on drums, Peter Lalish on guitar and, for a time, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Burri, and packed up for Los Angeles in 2015.
The music is indie pop dressed in vintage clothes, glossy and a little theatrical, from the 2012 EP that carried "Turn it Around" to Good Grief in 2016, with "Born Again Teen" and "Madness". Second Nature, in 2022, brought "Next To Normal" and "Dance Around It", and the self-titled Lucius, their fourth studio album, landed in May 2025 with "Old Tape" and "Gold Rush".
Those harmonies are in demand elsewhere, too. Wolfe and Laessig have sung for Roger Waters, Harry Styles, Jeff Tweedy, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, John Prine, Brandi Carlile and Joni Mitchell, among others.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Lucius on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next To Normal | 14 | #2 | – | 2022 | |
| 2 | Turn it Around | 11 | #34 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Old Tape | 11 | #26 | – | 2024 | |
| 4 | Born Again Teen | 9 | #32 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Gold Rush | 8 | #13 | – | 2025 | |
| 6 | Dance Around It | 6 | #64 | – | 2022 | |
| 7 | Madness | 2 | #49 | – | 2016 | |
| 8 | Dance Around It (w Brandi C & Sheryl C) | 1 | #35 | – | 2022 | |
| 9 | The Punisher | 1 | #37 | – | 2017 | |
| 10 | Thick As Thieves | 1 | #113 | – | 2025 | |
| 11 | Right Down The Line | 2 | #730 | – | – | |
| 12 | Go Home | 1 | #686 | – | – | |
| 13 | Almost Makes Me Wish For Rain | 1 | #79 | – | 2016 | |
| 14 | Neighbors | 1 | #161 | – | 2018 | |
| 15 | Something About You | 1 | #78 | – | 2016 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Lucius 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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