Artist · chart history
Violent Soho
Band Mansfield Australia Formed 2002
Violent Soho formed in 2002 in Mansfield, Australia. Violent Soho has 26 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Jesus Stole My Girlfriend”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #33. The station that charted Violent Soho most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 12 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Violent Soho came roaring out of Mansfield, a suburb of Brisbane, drawing comparisons to the Pixies, Mudhoney, Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana. They started under the name Showroom, and the lineup that stuck was Luke Boerdam on lead vocals and guitar, James Tidswell on guitar, Luke Henery on bass and Michael Richards on drums, with everybody shouting backing vocals. The press called it grunge; the band called it "stoner pop", which gets closer to the fuzzy, sticky, singalong truth.
Their debut, We Don't Belong Here, came out in 2008, and "Jesus Stole My Girlfriend" was as snotty as its title. But Hungry Ghost in 2013 was the breakthrough, and "Covered in Chrome" was its battle cry: quiet, mumbled verses giving way to a massive, riff-drenched chorus built for festival crowds to scream back. The album went Gold in Australia.
Waco, in 2016, debuted at number 1 on the ARIA charts, packed with loud, loose anthems like "Viceroy", "Like Soda" and "So Sentimental". Everything Is A-OK did the same in 2020, with "Vacation Forever" hitting as hard as ever.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Violent Soho on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus Stole My Girlfriend | 13 | #33 | – | 2010 | |
| 2 | Covered in Chrome | 3 | #4 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Viceroy | 1 | #14 | – | 2016 | |
| 4 | Like Soda | 1 | #15 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | Blanket | 1 | #53 | – | 2016 | |
| 6 | So Sentimental | 1 | #69 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | Vacation Forever | 1 | #69 | – | 2019 | |
| 8 | No Shade | 1 | #73 | – | 2016 | |
| 9 | Kamikaze | 1 | #78 | – | 2022 | |
| 10 | How to Taste | 1 | #92 | – | 2016 | |
| 11 | Lazy Eye (originally by Silversun Pickups) | 1 | #95 | – | – | |
| 12 | Muscle Junkie | 1 | #93 | – | 2010 |
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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