Artist · chart history
The Walkmen
Band New York United States Formed 2000 NY indie rock/post punk band
The Walkmen formed in 2000 in New York, United States. The Walkmen has 37 chart appearances on 33 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Rat”, which appears on 26 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted The Walkmen most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
The Walkmen came together in New York City out of two other bands: Hamilton Leithauser and Peter Matthew Bauer had been in the Recoys, while Paul Maroon, Walter Martin and Matt Barrick came from Jonathan Fire*Eater. Leithauser sings, Maroon plays guitar and keyboards, Martin and Bauer swap between bass and organ, and Barrick drums, and together they made one of the more haunted noises of New York's post-punk revival.
The debut, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone, arrived in 2002, but it was Bows + Arrows in 2004 that carried "The Rat", the single that set the critics swooning. It sounds like a door being kicked in: Barrick's drums rolling like a runaway train, Maroon's guitar clanging and Leithauser howling at the top of his lungs.
They kept going through A Hundred Miles Off and "Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen (both 2006), You & Me (2008), Lisbon (2010) and Heaven (2012), then went on hiatus in 2013. Leithauser, Bauer and Martin went solo, and Barrick sat in with Fleet Foxes as a session drummer. In 2023 they reunited for a long run of shows called "The Revenge Tour".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Walkmen on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Rat | 26 | #23 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | In The New Year | 3 | #55 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Heaven | 2 | #56 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | Angela Surf City | 1 | #9 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | 138th Street | 2 | #292 | – | – | |
| 6 | Heartbreaker | 1 | #53 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | We've Been Had | 1 | #456 | – | – | |
| 8 | What's In It For Me | 1 | #574 | – | – |
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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