Artist · chart history
Parquet Courts
Band Brooklyn United States Formed 2010 US garage rock band
Parquet Courts formed in 2010 in Brooklyn, United States. Parquet Courts has 29 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Walking at a Downtown Pace”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted Parquet Courts most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Parquet Courts came together in 2010 and made Brooklyn their base, a four-piece of Andrew Savage on vocals and guitar, Austin Brown on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Sean Yeaton on bass and vocals, and Max Savage on drums. The sound is wiry, talky punk rock with a slacker's grin and a crossword-solver's brain: jittery guitars that spar more than they solo, deadpan vocals, and songs that feel like they were written walking fast down a crowded avenue.
Light Up Gold, in 2012, set the template with "Borrowed Time" and the gloriously dazed "Stoned and Starving". Sunbathing Animal followed in 2014, with "Black and White" at its most breathless. Wide Awake!, in 2018, got looser and funkier, the title track practically bouncing, while "Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience" goes from jittery to explosive. Sympathy for Life, in 2021, pulled them onto the dance floor, "Walking at a Downtown Pace" strutting to a groove that sounds like a city at rush hour.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Parquet Courts on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking at a Downtown Pace | 5 | #15 | – | 2021 | |
| 2 | Wide Awake | 5 | #7 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience | 3 | #7 | – | 2018 | |
| 4 | Berlin Got Blurry | 3 | #151 | – | – | |
| 5 | Stoned and Starving | 4 | #51 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Watching Strangers Smile | 3 | #48 | – | 2022 | |
| 7 | Black and White | 2 | #53 | – | 2014 | |
| 8 | Dust | 1 | #438 | – | – | |
| 9 | These Boots Are Made For Walkin' | 1 | #130 | – | 2014 | |
| 10 | Borrowed Time | 2 | #84 | – | 2013 |
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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