Artist · chart history
Motion City Soundtrack
Band Minneapolis United States Formed 1997 Minnesota pop punk band
Motion City Soundtrack formed in 1997 in Minneapolis, United States. Motion City Soundtrack has 18 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Everything Is Alright”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted Motion City Soundtrack most often is 88.3 The Sting (Cleveland, OH), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Motion City Soundtrack came out of Minneapolis in 1997, started by singer and guitarist Justin Pierre and lead guitarist Joshua Cain, and it took them a few years to lock in a lineup that stuck, with Jesse Johnson on keyboards, Matthew Taylor on bass and Tony Thaxton on drums. What set them apart from the pop-punk pack was the Moog: a squiggling, bubbling synthesizer riding over the guitars like a sugar rush.
Commit This to Memory, in 2005, was their breakthrough, and "Everything Is Alright" is the anthem, a jittery, singalong confession. Pierre writes about anxiety, alienation, relationships and self-destruction with a nerdy wit that makes the pain almost fun, and for years the band was a fixture on the Warped Tour.
Even If It Kills Me followed in 2007, then a short spell on Columbia for My Dinosaur Life in 2010 before the label let them go and they went back to Epitaph for Go in 2012. Panic Stations came in 2015, the band split the following year, and after reuniting in 2019 they released their seventh album, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Motion City Soundtrack on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything Is Alright | 5 | #7 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | The Future Freaks Me Out | 1 | #28 | – | 2004 | |
| 3 | Disappear | 1 | #17 | – | 2010 | |
| 4 | Timelines | 1 | #17 | – | 2012 | |
| 5 | Particle Physics | 1 | #32 | – | 2025 | |
| 6 | This Is For Real | 1 | #37 | – | 2007 | |
| 7 | Her Words Destroyed My Planet | 2 | #66 | – | 2010 | |
| 8 | I Can Feel You | 1 | #87 | – | 2016 | |
| 9 | She Is Afraid | 1 | #68 | – | 2025 | |
| 10 | True Romance | 1 | #106 | – | 2012 | |
| 11 | Broken Heart | 1 | #113 | – | 2008 | |
| 12 | Pulp Fiction | 1 | #97 | – | 2011 | |
| 13 | A Life Less Ordinary | 1 | #83 | – | 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.
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