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Tegan and Sara
Band Calgary Canada Formed 1998 Canadian indie rock/pop duo
Tegan and Sara formed in 1998 in Calgary, Canada. Tegan and Sara has 117 chart appearances on 81 radio countdowns from 30 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Walking With A Ghost”, which appears on 33 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Tegan and Sara most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 28 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Tegan and Sara are identical twins, Tegan Quin and Sara Quin, and the duo they started in Calgary runs on the kind of close-quarters chemistry only siblings can get away with: two songwriters, two multi-instrumentalists, two voices that seem to finish each other's thoughts. They cut their first demos on cassette, put out a debut album in 1999, and caught the ear of Neil Young, whose Vapor Records signed them.
So Jealous, in 2004, is where the rest of the world caught up. "Walking With A Ghost" is a nervy little spiral of a song, all twitch and repetition, and "Speak Slow" rides the same jittery indie rock energy. The Con followed in 2007 with "Back in Your Head" and its title track, and Sainthood brought "Hell" in 2009.
Then they went bright. Heartthrob, in 2013, went for a shinier pop sound and gave them "Closer", and the Juno for Group of the Year came the following year, the same year they turned up on The Lego Movie soundtrack with the Lonely Island on "Everything Is Awesome". Love You to Death ("Boyfriend", "Stop Desire") and Hey, I'm Just Like You kept the story going, and in 2019 they told it in a memoir, High School, later turned into a TV series. Both are active in the LGBTQ community.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Tegan and Sara on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking With A Ghost | 33 | #4 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | Back in Your Head | 16 | #15 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | Hell | 16 | #38 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Closer | 11 | #39 | – | 2012 | |
| 5 | Speak Slow | 11 | #68 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | Northshore | 4 | #20 | – | 2010 | |
| 7 | The Con | 7 | #48 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | U-Turn | 2 | #439 | – | – | |
| 9 | The Cure | 1 | #6 | – | 2010 | |
| 10 | Drove Me Wild | 1 | #11 | – | 2014 | |
| 11 | My Number | 2 | #312 | – | – | |
| 12 | How Come You Don't Want Me | 1 | #19 | – | 2013 | |
| 13 | Alligator | 1 | #15 | – | 2010 | |
| 14 | Stop Desire | 1 | #29 | – | 2016 | |
| 15 | I'll Be Back Someday | 2 | #40 | – | 2019 | |
| 16 | Walking With the Ghost | 1 | #37 | – | 2005 | |
| 17 | Dying To Know | 1 | #41 | – | 2016 | |
| 18 | Yellow | 1 | #34 | – | 2022 | |
| 19 | Under My Control | 1 | #45 | – | 2023 | |
| 20 | Boyfriend | 1 | #47 | – | 2016 | |
| 21 | Smoking Weed Alone | 1 | #69 | – | 2022 | |
| 22 | I Can't Grow Up | 1 | #79 | – | 2023 | |
| 23 | Alligator Tears | 1 | #79 | – | 2010 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Tegan and Sara as a guest.
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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