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Twenty One Pilots
Band Columbus United States Formed 2009
Twenty One Pilots formed in 2009 in Columbus, United States. Twenty One Pilots has 167 chart appearances on 80 radio countdowns from 26 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Stressed Out”, which appears on 23 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 10 countdowns. The station that charted Twenty One Pilots most often is X96 (Salt Lake City, UT), with 20 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Twenty One Pilots started out in Columbus, Ohio, in 2009 as a trio, with Tyler Joseph up front, Nick Thomas on bass and Chris Salih on drums. After the self-titled debut, Josh Dun replaced Salih in May 2011 and Thomas left a month later, which left Joseph, with his keyboards, piano, synths and ukulele, and Dun behind the kit as the whole show. Regional at Best came out on their own, Fueled by Ramen signed them in 2012, and Vessel followed in 2013.
Blurryface, in 2015, is where the genre-hopping clicked. It's a record that won't sit still, lurching from reggae lilt to rap to synth-pop to rock inside a single song, while Joseph works through his anxieties out loud. "Stressed Out" is the one that won them a Grammy, a nostalgic, hip-hop-paced sigh; "Ride" skanks along on an offbeat bounce, and "Tear In My Heart" and "Heavy Dirty Soul" kept the pace. Every single track on it ended up certified gold or better, a first for any album, and "Heathens" arrived the following year to make them bigger still.
The shows, with their costumes and acrobatics, built a famously devoted fanbase, and several of their concept albums have spun out an alternate-universe storyline. The records kept coming: Trench in 2018 with "Jumpsuit", "My Blood" and "Chlorine", Scaled and Icy in 2021 with "Shy Away", then Clancy and Breach.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Twenty One Pilots on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stressed Out | 23 | #1 | 1 | 2015 | |
| 2 | Heathens | 21 | #1 | 3 | 2016 | |
| 3 | Ride | 18 | #1 | 1 | 2016 | |
| 4 | Tear In My Heart | 12 | #1 | 1 | 2015 | |
| 5 | Level Of Concern | 9 | #1 | 4 | 2020 | |
| 6 | The Hype | 10 | #7 | – | 2019 | |
| 7 | My Blood | 8 | #8 | – | 2018 | |
| 8 | Heavy Dirty Soul | 8 | #3 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | Shy Away | 5 | #2 | – | 2021 | |
| 10 | Jumpsuit | 5 | #2 | – | 2018 | |
| 11 | Holding On To You | 8 | #3 | – | 2013 | |
| 12 | Saturday | 4 | #2 | – | 2021 | |
| 13 | The Outside | 5 | #10 | – | 2022 | |
| 14 | Chlorine | 5 | #4 | – | 2019 | |
| 15 | The Contract | 3 | #3 | – | 2025 | |
| 16 | House of Gold | 4 | #8 | – | 2013 | |
| 17 | The Craving | 2 | #5 | – | 2024 | |
| 18 | Car Radio | 2 | #8 | – | 2014 | |
| 19 | Overcompensate | 2 | #29 | – | 2024 | |
| 20 | Guns For Hands | 3 | #7 | – | 2014 | |
| 21 | City Walls | 2 | #23 | – | 2025 | |
| 22 | The Line | 3 | #39 | – | 2025 | |
| 23 | Next Semester | 1 | #18 | – | 2024 | |
| 24 | Still Dancing | 1 | #43 | – | 2025 | |
| 25 | Routines in the Night | 1 | #62 | – | 2025 | |
| 26 | Migraine | 1 | #71 | – | 2013 |
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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