Artist · chart history
Passion Pit
Band Cambridge United States Formed 2007
Passion Pit formed in 2007 in Cambridge, United States. Passion Pit has 113 chart appearances on 77 radio countdowns from 37 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Take A Walk”, which appears on 43 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Passion Pit most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
Passion Pit started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2007, and for all the names that have passed through the lineup, it has always really been Michael Angelakos: the frontman, the keyboard player and the one doing most of the recording. His music is synth-pop with its heart pinned to its sleeve, all fizzing keyboards, fat, happy beats and a high, yearning voice that sounds like it's about to crack from sheer feeling.
Manners, in 2009, was the debut, and "Sleepyhead", "Little Secrets" and "The Reeling" made it a sugar high of shouted choruses and rushing synths. Gossamer, in 2012, went bigger and brighter and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, the band's first top 10 album. "Take a Walk" is a stomping, sunlit anthem, and "Carried Away" is the sort of giddy, glittering pop song that sounds best with the windows down.
Kindred followed in 2015, with "Lifted Up (1985)" keeping the glow going, and in 2017 the band put out Tremendous Sea of Love on its own.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Passion Pit on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take A Walk | 43 | #3 | – | 2012 | |
| 2 | The Reeling | 15 | #2 | – | 2009 | |
| 3 | Little Secrets | 18 | #8 | – | 2010 | |
| 4 | Sleepyhead | 15 | #12 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Carried Away | 10 | #14 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Lifted Up (1985) | 5 | #5 | – | 2015 | |
| 7 | I'll Be Alright | 1 | #26 | – | 2012 | |
| 8 | Cry Like A Ghost | 1 | #327 | – | – | |
| 9 | To Kingdom Come | 1 | #68 | – | 2010 | |
| 10 | Tonight Tonight | 1 | #77 | – | 2010 | |
| 11 | Fold in Your Hands | 1 | #71 | – | 2009 | |
| 12 | Until We Can't (Let's Go) | 1 | #119 | – | 2015 | |
| 13 | Constant Conversations | 1 | #200 | – | 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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