Artist · chart history
Purity Ring
Band Edmonton Canada Formed 2010
Purity Ring formed in 2010 in Edmonton, Canada. Purity Ring has 10 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Fineshrine”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Purity Ring most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2015.
Purity Ring are a Canadian electronic pop duo out of Edmonton, Alberta, formed in 2010: Corin Roddick, a multi-instrumentalist and producer, builds the beats, and Megan James sings over them. "Lofticries", which turned up in 2011 on the compilation Hands Together, Volume 1: Home and Abroad, is where the eerie charm first showed itself.
Their debut album, Shrines, arrived on 4AD in 2012 to critical acclaim, and it's easy to hear why. Roddick's production is all slow-motion trap thuds, chopped-up vocal fragments and glittering synths, a haunted-dollhouse version of synth-pop, while James's voice floats above it clear and childlike. "Fineshrine" is the showpiece, pretty and unsettling in equal measure.
Another Eternity followed in 2015, with "Begin Again" pushing the sound toward bigger, brighter pop, then Womb in 2020 and a self-titled album in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Purity Ring on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fineshrine | 2 | #9 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | Push Pull | 1 | #39 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | Lofticries | 2 | #61 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | Amenamy | 2 | #80 | – | 2014 | |
| 5 | Stranger Than Earth | 1 | #64 | – | 2015 | |
| 6 | Begin Again | 1 | #87 | – | 2015 | |
| 7 | Stardew | 1 | #103 | – | 2020 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 703 | Lofticries | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now |
| 2020 | 103 | Stardew | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2020 |
| 2015 | 39 | Push Pull | WBER Listener Countdown 2015 |
| 2015 | 64 | Stranger Than Earth | WBER Listener Countdown 2015 |
| 2015 | 87 | Begin Again | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015 |
| 2014 | 80 | Amenamy | WBER Listener Countdown 2014 |
| 2013 | 9 | Fineshrine | WBER Listener Countdown 2013 |
| 2013 | 121 | Amenamy | WBER Listener Countdown 2013 |
| 2012 | 61 | Lofticries | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 85 | Fineshrine | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2012 |
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