Artist · chart history
Starset
Band Columbus United States Formed 2013
Starset formed in 2013 in Columbus, United States. Starset has 22 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “My Demons”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Starset most often is 98KUPD (Phoenix, AZ), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
Starset treat rock like a transmission from deep space. Dustin Bates formed the band in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013, and from the start it was built around concept albums told as much through social media and YouTube as through the records themselves. Bates sings and plays keyboards, Ron DeChant handles bass, keys and backing vocals, Brock Richards plays guitar and Adam Gilbert drums.
The sound is alternative rock with an electronic spine: huge, cinematic choruses, synth pulses and guitars that crash in like meteor showers. "My Demons", from the 2013 EP The Prox Transmissions, was the early calling card and racked up more than 280 million YouTube views. Vessels, in 2017, brought "Monster", their most commercially successful song, which reached number 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
DIVISIONS, in 2019, pushed the drama further with "Trials" and "Manifest", and HORIZONS, in 2021, delivered the tense, pounding "Infected". The saga has kept unspooling since, with Silos arriving in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Starset on radio countdowns
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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