Snail Mail
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Artist · chart history

Snail Mail

Solo artist Baltimore United States US indie rock solo project by Lindsey Erin Jordan

Snail Mail is an artist from Baltimore. Snail Mail has 22 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2018–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Valentine”, which appears on 10 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Snail Mail most often is WTMD (Baltimore, MD), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2021.

22appearances
19countdowns
7songs charted
10stations
1#1 finishes
2018–2025years

Snail Mail is Lindsey Jordan, a guitarist and songwriter from Maryland, born in 1999, who had already played her first show under the name at 15 in 2015 and turned heads a year later with the Habit EP. Matador Records signed her next.

Lush, her 2018 debut album, made good on the promise and earned her a pile of critical praise. Guitars that ring and chime and then bite, a voice that sits somewhere between a sigh and a dare, and songs like "Heat Wave" that build from a murmur to a squall.

Valentine followed in 2021, bigger and more polished, with its title track swinging from hush to howl. Ricochet, her third album, arrived in 2026. For a writer who started out so young, the striking thing is how little she's had to grow into her guitar: she sounded like herself from the first chord.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Snail Mail on radio countdowns

#SongStrengthListsBest#1sPeak year
1 Valentine
506
10 #1 1 2021
2 Heat Wave
327
6 #13 – 2018
3 Thinning
95
1 #46 – –
4 Headlock
36
1 #69 – 2022
5 Pristine
31
2 #71 – 2018
6 The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl In The World
22
1 #70 – 2019
7 Forever (Sailing)
9
1 #84 – 2023

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

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