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MC Lars
Solo artist Berkeley United States American rapper
MC Lars is an artist from Berkeley. MC Lars has 18 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2019. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Twenty-Three”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #12. The station that charted MC Lars most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 15 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
MC Lars is the rapper born Andrew Robert Nielsen in 1982, out of Berkeley, and he may be the only MC holding degrees from both Stanford and Oxford. He put that education to work: he's been described as a pioneer of lit-hop, rhymes that chew on Shakespeare, Poe and Melville, and he counts as a key player in the early nerdcore scene. A 2003 song of his used the term "iGeneration", which ASCAP later credited as an early use of the phrase.
In 2006 Nettwerk put out The Graduate, and two tracks from it crashed the countdowns: "Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock" and "Download this Song", titles that tell you he came to poke fun, not to posture. The hooks were bratty, the jokes were sharp, and the whole thing had the energy of the smartest kid in class who also happens to be the class clown. He went on to found Horris Records and has played everywhere from TEDx events to Carnegie Hall.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by MC Lars on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty-Three | 2 | #12 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Space Game | 1 | #3 | – | 2006 | |
| 3 | Download this Song | 2 | #25 | – | 2006 | |
| 4 | Don't Be A Cyberbully | 1 | #7 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Signing Emo | 1 | #30 | – | 2004 | |
| 6 | Summer Camp Love (Is So In Tents) | 1 | #18 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | The Ballad of Hans Moleman | 1 | #19 | – | 2016 | |
| 8 | Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock | 3 | #33 | – | 2006 | |
| 9 | If I Were A Jedi | 1 | #24 | – | 2016 | |
| 10 | This Gigantic Robot Kills | 1 | #22 | – | 2009 | |
| 11 | Internet Relationships | 1 | #43 | – | 2006 | |
| 12 | Igeneration | 1 | #93 | – | 2004 | |
| 13 | True Player For Real | 1 | #56 | – | 2010 | |
| 14 | How To Be An Indie Rapper | 1 | #82 | – | 2012 |
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.
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