Artist · chart history
Slowdive
Band Reading United Kingdom Formed 1989
Slowdive formed in 1989 in Reading, United Kingdom. Slowdive has 23 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Kisses”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted Slowdive most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
Slowdive formed in Reading, Berkshire, in 1989, with Neil Halstead writing most of the songs and sharing the vocals with Rachel Goswell, Christian Savill on guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass and eventually Simon Scott on drums. Signed to Creation, they became one of the leading lights of the early '90s shoegaze scene, all reverb, washed-out vocals and guitars that sound like weather. The Holding Our Breath EP, with "Catch the Breeze", came first, then Just for a Day in 1991 and Souvlaki in 1993, with "Alison" drifting by on the Outside Your Room EP.
Pygmalion in 1995 went minimal and ghostly, but by then the band was already coming apart; they broke up soon after, and the remaining members carried on in a folkier, country-tinged direction as Mojave 3.
Then came one of rock's most graceful comebacks. The original five reunited in 2014 to play Primavera Sound, and the self-titled album in 2017 on Dead Oceans, their first in 22 years, sounded like they had never been away, "Sugar for the Pill" and "Star Roving" as lush and melancholic as ever. Everything Is Alive in 2023 went further still, gave them their first top ten album anywhere, and "Kisses" is a shimmering, bittersweet pop song that suits them perfectly.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Slowdive on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kisses | 9 | #16 | – | 2023 | |
| 2 | Sugar for the Pill | 4 | #68 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | Alison | 5 | #417 | – | – | |
| 4 | chained to a cloud | 1 | #9 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | shanty | 1 | #48 | – | 2023 | |
| 6 | skin in the game | 1 | #61 | – | 2023 | |
| 7 | Catch The Breeze | 1 | #20 | – | 1991 | |
| 8 | Star Roving | 1 | #278 | – | – |
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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