Artist · chart history
Wheat
Band Taunton United States Formed 1996
Wheat formed in 1996 in Taunton, United States. Wheat has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Met a Girl”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #14. The station that charted Wheat most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Wheat started up in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1996: Scott Levesque singing and playing guitar, Ricky Brennan Jr. on guitar, Kenny Madaras on bass and Brendan Harney on drums, with Brennan and Harney chipping in on vocals too.
Hope and Adams, in 1999, is their calling card, a hazy, slow-burning indie rock record that gets under your skin by stealth rather than force, and "Don't I Hold You" is the song that slipped out into the wider world and onto rock radio's countdowns.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Wheat on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Met a Girl | 3 | #14 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | Don't I Hold You | 3 | #26 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Some Days | 1 | #108 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | Closer to Mercury | 1 | #153 | – | 2004 | |
| 5 | World United Already | 1 | #60 | – | 2004 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 893 | I Met a Girl | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century |
| 2022 | 867 | I Met a Girl | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2004 | 60 | World United Already | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 108 | Some Days | WBER Listener Countdown 2004 |
| 2004 | 153 (tie) | Closer to Mercury | WBER Listener Countdown 2004 |
| 2003 | 14 | I Met a Girl | WBER Listener Countdown 2003 |
| 2001 | 460 | Don't I Hold You | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) |
| 2000 | 26 | Don't I Hold You | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 |
| 1999 | 50 | Don't I Hold You | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1999 |
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