Artist · chart history
The Subways
Band Welwyn Garden City United Kingdom Formed 2003
The Subways formed in 2003 in Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom. The Subways has 30 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Rock & Roll Queen”, which appears on 21 lists with a best position of #33. The station that charted The Subways most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 16 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
The Subways came roaring out of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, a three-piece with no time for subtlety. Billy Lunn played guitar and sang, Charlotte Cooper played bass and sang, and Josh Morgan pounded the drums, and the whole thing ran on sugar-rush riffs and boy-girl shouting.
Young for Eternity, their debut, landed in the UK on 4 July 2005, and "Rock & Roll Queen" was its calling card: a blast of fuzzed-out garage punk with a chorus you could shout from the back of a sweaty club. "Oh Yeah" kept the energy pinned in the red. Nothing here is complicated, and that is the charm: a band playing like their lives depended on it.
The debut reached America in February 2006, and they kept at it: All or Nothing in 2008, Money and Celebrity in 2011, a self-titled album in 2015 and Uncertain Joys in 2023. Morgan left for personal reasons in October 2020, and Camille Phillips took over the drums.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Subways on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rock & Roll Queen | 21 | #33 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Oh Yeah | 9 | #52 | – | 2006 |
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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