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Sigur Ros
Band Reykjavík Iceland Formed 1994 Icelandic post‐rock band
Sigur Ros formed in 1994 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Sigur Ros has 38 chart appearances on 29 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hoppapolla”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #43. The station that charted Sigur Ros most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 11 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Sigur Rós came out of Reykjavík in 1994 and sound like nothing else that was going on in the late '90s, a band that treats a rock group's tools like weather systems. Jónsi sings in a soaring falsetto and plays his guitar with a cello bow, Georg Hólm plays bass and Kjartan Sveinsson handles keyboards, and the songs drift through classical grandeur and minimalist patience at glacial, gorgeous tempos. Jónsi sings in Icelandic and in Vonlenska, the band's name for his wordless vocal sounds, so the meaning comes through in pure tone.
Ágætis byrjun, their second album, released in 1999, was the record that made the outside world pay attention, with "Svefn-g-englar" unfurling slowly like a whale song in a cathedral. The band took the Shortlist Music Prize in 2001. Takk... in 2005 carried "Glósóli", and "Hoppípolla", with its tumbling piano and swelling brass, became the song rock radio reached for most. Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, in 2008, brought the wild, stomping "Gobbledigook".
Drummers Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson and then Orri Páll Dýrason kept time over the years, and Sveinsson, who left in 2013, came back in 2022. They have released eight studio albums in all.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sigur Ros on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoppapolla | 10 | #43 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | Svefn G Englar | 6 | #47 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Nothing Song | 2 | #20 | – | 2003 | |
| 4 | Sæglópur | 2 | #460 | – | – | |
| 5 | Gobbledigook | 5 | #48 | – | 2008 | |
| 6 | Hoppipola | 1 | #17 | – | – | |
| 7 | Staraflar | 1 | #70 | – | 2002 | |
| 8 | Varou | 1 | #52 | – | 2012 | |
| 9 | Untitled ("Vaka") | 1 | #309 | – | – | |
| 10 | Vid Spilum Endalaust | 1 | #51 | – | 2009 | |
| 11 | Brennisteinn | 1 | #73 | – | 2013 | |
| 12 | Glosoli | 1 | #517 | – | – | |
| 13 | Klettur | 1 | #58 | – | 2023 | |
| 14 | Untitled #4 | 2 | #633 | – | – | |
| 15 | Hljomalind | 1 | #106 | – | 2008 | |
| 16 | Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa | 1 | #1941 | – | – |
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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