Artist · chart history
Plushgun
Band United States Formed 2007
Plushgun formed in 2007 in the United States. Plushgun has 5 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2009–2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Just Impolite”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted Plushgun most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Plushgun started as the project of Dan Ingala in Brooklyn, a synth-pop outfit that got its first break the internet way: its songs turned up in the web series We Need Girlfriends and an online following snowballed from there. The current lineup puts Taylor Armstrong on guitar and Matt Bogdanow on drums alongside Ingala.
The music site Ourstage flew the band out to South by Southwest, where Tommy Boy spotted them, and on May 15, 2008, the band announced its deal with the label; Plushgun became the first Ourstage act signed by a big-name label. A self-titled vinyl EP followed on August 19, 2008, led by "Just Impolite", a bouncy bit of new wave with glittering keyboards and a chorus built for dancing. Its video, directed by Tyler Shields, starred Brittany Snow and Juno Temple, and the song showed up on MTV's The City, in the 2009 film The Good Guy and in a Comcast commercial.
The first album, Pins & Panzers, came out on February 17, 2009, and a second, Me.Me, followed on May 15, 2012. In between, a song of theirs on the soundtrack to the German film Zweiohrküken earned a gold record in 2010.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Plushgun on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just Impolite | 5 | #24 | – | 2009 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1951 | Just Impolite | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) |
| 2011 | 1877 | Just Impolite | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) |
| 2010 | 1801 | Just Impolite | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) |
| 2009 | 24 | Just Impolite | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2009 |
| 2009 | 1760 | Just Impolite | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) |
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