Artist · chart history
VAST
Band Formed 1998 American industrial rock
VAST formed in 1998. VAST has 30 chart appearances on 30 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 1998–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Touched”, which appears on 17 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted VAST most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
VAST takes its name from an acronym, Visual Audio Sensory Theater, which was also the title of the 1998 Elektra debut, and it is really the vehicle for one man: singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jon Crosby. He built a sound that is part ambient electro-rock, part industrial grind, part acoustic ache, with drum-driven tracks, heavy bass and Crosby's acoustic guitar all fed through a mess of electronics and processing.
"Touched" was the breakout in 1998, a moody, cavernous track that sounds like it was recorded in a cathedral after dark, and "Pretty When You Cry" showed off the darker, bruised side of the same album. Music for People followed in 2000 with "Free".
Crosby later took things in a more acoustic direction and set up his own independent label, 2blossoms, to put out the records, the latest being the She Is Murder EP in 2018.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by VAST on radio countdowns
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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