Artist · chart history
Stars
Band Toronto Formed 2000 Canadian indie pop band
Stars formed in 2000 in Toronto. Stars has 28 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #196. The station that charted Stars most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Stars, the Montreal-based indie pop band, got going in 2000, and by the time Set Yourself on Fire arrived in 2004 they had turned heartbreak into a kind of grand opera. Torquil Campbell, Amy Millan, Evan Cranley, Chris Seligman and Pat McGee make up the band, and on songs like "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" and "Ageless Beauty" they sound like they've read every sad novel in the library and decided to dance anyway: lush, swooning, wounded and a little bit arch.
In Our Bedroom After the War in 2007 widened the canvas, with "Take Me to the Riot" swinging a fist and "Bitches in Tokyo" strutting, and in 2007 they were up for the Shortlist Music Prize. They have kept at it ever since, with No One Is Lost in 2014 chasing the glitter of the dancefloor and There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light in 2017 turning the lights down low again.
Nine albums and a handful of EPs in, they have picked up two Juno Award nominations and two Polaris Music Prize nominations along the way, and they remain one of Canadian indie pop's most reliably bruised romantics.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Stars on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your Ex-Lover Is Dead | 5 | #196 | – | – | |
| 2 | Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It | 3 | #37 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Ageless Beauty | 3 | #36 | – | 2005 | |
| 4 | Fixed | 2 | #33 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | Elevator Love Letter | 1 | #61 | – | 2004 | |
| 6 | Take Me To The Riot | 1 | #33 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | This Charming Man | 1 | #63 | – | 2001 | |
| 8 | The Night Starts Here | 2 | #468 | – | – | |
| 9 | Wasted Daylight | 1 | #44 | – | 2010 | |
| 10 | From The Night | 1 | #58 | – | 2015 | |
| 11 | No One Is Lost | 2 | #64 | – | 2014 | |
| 12 | Capelton Hill | 1 | #49 | – | 2024 | |
| 13 | Trap Door | 1 | #590 | – | – | |
| 14 | Fluorescent Light | 2 | #66 | – | 2018 | |
| 15 | Build A Fire | 1 | #85 | – | 2022 | |
| 16 | Bitches in Tokyo | 1 | #83 | – | 2008 |
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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