Artist · chart history
Silk Sonic
Band United States Formed 2021
Silk Sonic formed in 2021 in the United States. Silk Sonic has 11 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2021–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Leave The Door Open”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #13. The station that charted Silk Sonic most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2021.
Silk Sonic is Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, two stars who got along so well during Mars's 24K Magic World Tour that Mars asked .Paak into the studio. What came out, An Evening with Silk Sonic, in 2021, is a lavish, lovingly tailored tribute to vintage soul: silky falsettos, plush strings, slinky guitars and a rhythm section that grooves like it's wearing a velvet suit. It entered the Billboard 200 at number two and critics swooned.
"Leave the Door Open" is the showstopper, a slow-jam seduction with harmonies stacked to the rafters and a wink in every line, and it went all the way to number one on the Hot 100. It won four Grammys, Song of the Year among them. "Smokin' Out the Window" is the melodramatic flip side, a heartbroken wail dressed up in retro finery, and it earned the BET Awards' prize for best video. "Skate", "Love's Train" and "After Last Night" followed, and four of the album's singles topped the Adult R&B Songs chart.
The BET Awards also crowned the whole record their album of the year, and in 2022 the duo took it into a residency at Park MGM.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Silk Sonic on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave The Door Open | 8 | #13 | – | 2021 | |
| 2 | Fly As Me | 1 | #69 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | Smokin' Out The Window | 1 | #72 | – | 2022 | |
| 4 | Skate | 1 | #1032 | – | – |
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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