Artist · chart history
Of Monsters And Men
Band Keflavík Iceland Formed 2010
Of Monsters And Men formed in 2010 in Keflavík, Iceland. Of Monsters And Men has 183 chart appearances on 119 radio countdowns from 41 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Little Talks”, which appears on 56 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Of Monsters And Men most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
Of Monsters and Men won Iceland's Músíktilraunir battle of the bands in 2010, the year they formed, and a year later "Little Talks" was bouncing out of radios far beyond Iceland. Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar "Raggi" Þórhallsson share the singing and the acoustic guitars, trading lines like a couple bickering across a kitchen, with Brynjar Leifsson on lead guitar, Kristján Páll Kristjánsson on bass and Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson on drums.
My Head Is an Animal, the 2011 debut, is indie folk built for singing along in a field: stomping drums, horn blasts, glockenspiel and accordion, and choruses that swell into communal shouts on "Little Talks", "Dirty Paws", "King and Lionheart" and "Love Love Love". "Mountain Sound" kept the campfire burning. "Little Talks" went top 10 in several countries, and in 2013 the band picked up a European Border Breakers Award.
Beneath the Skin in 2015 pulled inward, moodier and more hushed, with "Crystals" and "Empire", and Fever Dream in 2019 turned restless and jittery on "Alligator" and "Wars". The 2025 EP Fruit Bat and "Ordinary Creature" came alongside a fourth album, All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade, proof the band still has plenty of wonder left in the tank.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Of Monsters And Men on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little Talks | 56 | #1 | 1 | 2012 | |
| 2 | Mountain Sound | 38 | #3 | – | 2012 | |
| 3 | Alligator | 13 | #6 | – | 2019 | |
| 4 | Crystals | 13 | #9 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | Dirty Paws | 14 | #27 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Ordinary Creature | 12 | #28 | – | 2025 | |
| 7 | Visitor | 7 | #11 | – | 2020 | |
| 8 | King and Lionheart | 8 | #25 | – | 2013 | |
| 9 | Wars | 7 | #29 | – | 2020 | |
| 10 | Empire | 6 | #64 | – | 2015 | |
| 11 | Hunger | 2 | #61 | – | 2016 | |
| 12 | Love Love Love | 3 | #18 | – | 2012 | |
| 13 | Wolves Without Teeth | 1 | #18 | – | 2015 | |
| 14 | Human | 1 | #47 | – | 2015 | |
| 15 | Wild Roses | 1 | #60 | – | 2019 | |
| 16 | Backyard | 1 | #795 | – | – |
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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