Artist · chart history
The Klaxons
Band New Cross United Kingdom Active 2005–2015
The Klaxons formed in 2005 in New Cross, United Kingdom and was active until 2015. The Klaxons has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Golden Skans”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #54. The station that charted The Klaxons most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Klaxons came out of New Cross in London in 2005 and spent their first stretch firing off 7-inch singles through a scatter of indie labels, until the success of "Magick" and "Golden Skans" cleared the runway for an album. Their debut album, Myths of the Near Future, landed on January 29, 2007, and it's a gleeful collision: post-punk guitars, dance-punk rhythms and falsetto harmonies, slapped with the tag "new rave" and delivered like a sci-fi paperback read aloud at a rave.
James Righton played keyboards and sang lead, Simon Taylor-Davis played guitar and Jamie Reynolds rounded out the core, with Steffan Halperin joining in 2007. That year the album won the Mercury Prize, and the band spent late 2006 and 2007 on festival stages and headlining tours around the world.
They started on the follow-up in July 2007, but Surfing the Void, with "Echoes", didn't show up until August 23, 2010. A third album, Love Frequency, followed on June 16, 2014, and in 2015 the band went on an indefinite hiatus.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Klaxons on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Golden Skans | 5 | #54 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | Echoes | 1 | #81 | – | 2010 |
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
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 84 | Golden Skans | BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years |
| 2010 | 81 | Echoes | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2010 |
| 2007 | 85 | Golden Skans | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2007 |
| 2007 | 99 | Golden Skans | CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007 |
| 2007 | 54 (tie) | Golden Skans | WBER Listener Countdown 2007 |
| 2007 | 54 | Golden Skans | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 |
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