Artist · chart history
Wolf Alice
Band London United Kingdom Formed 2010 British indie/rock band
Wolf Alice formed in 2010 in London, United Kingdom. Wolf Alice has 79 chart appearances on 53 radio countdowns from 21 stations on RockLists, spanning 2015–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “White Horses”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Wolf Alice most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 11 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Wolf Alice started in London in 2010 as an acoustic duo, Ellie Rowsell singing and Joff Oddie on guitar, and played their first gig at the Highbury Garage that December after meeting a band at an open mic night in Islington. By 2012 drummer Joel Amey and bassist Theo Ellis had come aboard, and the folk duo had grown teeth: grunge-sized guitars, dreamy melodies and a singer who can whisper one line and shriek the next.
The singles came first, "Fluffy" and "Bros" in 2013, then the Blush EP and, in May 2014, Creature Songs, home to "Moaning Lisa Smile", a grinding, sardonic stomp that later earned them a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance. The debut album, My Love Is Cool, arrived in June 2015 behind "Giant Peach", with the wide-eyed rush of "Bros" along for the ride.
Then they started collecting trophies. Visions of a Life, in 2017, won the Mercury Prize; Blue Weekend, in 2021, became their first number one album in Britain and was followed by the Brit Award for British Group; and The Clearing, in August 2025, topped the UK chart too, with "White Horses" and "Bloom Baby Bloom" carrying them onto the countdowns once more.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Wolf Alice on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Horses | 13 | #3 | – | 2025 | |
| 2 | Moaning Lisa Smile | 20 | #12 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | Don't Delete The Kisses | 14 | #9 | – | 2017 | |
| 4 | Bloom Baby Bloom | 13 | #11 | – | 2025 | |
| 5 | The Last Man on Earth | 6 | #31 | – | 2021 | |
| 6 | Giant Peach | 4 | #34 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | Bros | 6 | #48 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | Freazy | 1 | #8 | – | 2016 | |
| 9 | Bros1 | 1 | #49 | – | 2015 | |
| 10 | Beautifully Unconventional | 1 | #81 | – | 2018 |
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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