Artist · chart history
Oscar and the Wolf
Band Ghent Belgium Formed 2010
Oscar and the Wolf formed in 2010 in Ghent, Belgium. Oscar and the Wolf has 6 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2014–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Strange Entity”, which appears on 1 list and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Oscar and the Wolf most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Max Colombie started Oscar and the Wolf in Ghent in 2010, with drummer Claudio Arduini there from the beginning, and the early EPs were indie folk. "Orange Sky" got people outside Belgium listening in 2013 and landed support slots with the likes of Lou Reed, but the real turn came with Entity in April 2014. Colombie took the wheel for the first time, Leo Abrahams co-produced and mixed it, and the folk gave way to something sleek and nocturnal: slow-burning synths, pulsing beats and Colombie's voice drifting over the top like smoke.
"Strange Entity" is the record's seductive centerpiece, with "Princes", "Undress" and "Joaquim" bathed in the same dim, velvet light. Critics at Drowned in Sound and Les Inrocks liked what they heard, and at home the album went double platinum.
After touring across Europe, including a run supporting Róisín Murphy, Oscar and the Wolf sold out Antwerp's Sportpaleis and Amsterdam's Heineken Music Hall in 2015, then headlined Pukkelpop in 2016, the year "The Game" kicked off the second album. The Afterglow EP in 2022 brought "Dancing Machine".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Oscar and the Wolf on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Oscar and the Wolf as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16 | Warrior | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022 |
| 2022 | 53 | Dancing Machine | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022 |
| 2015 | 4 | Joaquim | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2015 |
| 2015 | 13 | Undress | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2015 |
| 2014 | 1 | Strange Entity | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2014 |
| 2014 | 6 | Princes | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2014 |
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