Artist · chart history
Type O Negative
Band Brooklyn United States Active 1989–2010
Type O Negative formed in 1989 in Brooklyn, United States and was active until 2010. Type O Negative has 10 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Christian Woman”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #177. The station that charted Type O Negative most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Type O Negative crawled out of Brooklyn in 1989, four guys who took doom metal's slow-motion sludge and draped it in velvet and candle wax. Peter Steele sang and played bass, his bottomless baritone the band's calling card, with Kenny Hickey on guitar, Josh Silver on keyboards and Sal Abruscato on drums until Johnny Kelly took over in 1993.
Their songs wallowed gloriously in addiction, death, depression, religion, romance and sex, which is how they came to be nicknamed "the Drab Four", a gloomy wink at the Beatles. Behind the gothic drama there was always a sick sense of humor, and Silver's keyboards gave the crushing riffs a lush, churchy sheen. Bloody Kisses in 1993 went platinum and October Rust in 1996 went gold, and on Roadrunner Records they built a fiercely loyal cult following over seven studio albums.
Life Is Killing Me, from 2003, is the band at their most darkly funny, with "I Like Goils" and "I Don't Wanna Be Me" as its sharpest barbs. Steele died on April 14, 2010, and in November of that year the surviving members called it a day. In 2016 Loudwire put them at 32 on its list of the 50 best metal bands ever.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Type O Negative on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian Woman | 4 | #177 | – | – | |
| 2 | I Like Goils | 1 | #48 | – | 2004 | |
| 3 | Black #1 | 2 | #756 | – | – | |
| 4 | Black No. 1 | 1 | #748 | – | – | |
| 5 | My Girlfriend's Girlfriend | 1 | #88 | – | 1996 | |
| 6 | I Don't Wanna Be Me | 1 | #102 | – | 2003 |
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 | 177 | Christian Woman | KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time |
| 2004 | 48 | I Like Goils | WIRS Top 107 Songs of 2004 |
| 2003 | 102 | I Don't Wanna Be Me | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003 |
| 1996 | 88 | My Girlfriend's Girlfriend | WBER Listener Countdown 1996 |
| 1996 | 671 | Christian Woman | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) |
| 1996 | 940 | Black #1 | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) |
| 1995 | 533 | Christian Woman | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) |
| 1995 | 748 | Black No. 1 | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) |
| 1994 | 756 | Black #1 | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) |
| 1994 | 859 | Christian Woman | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) |
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