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Yard Act
Band Leeds Formed 2019 UK post-punk band
Yard Act formed in 2019 in Leeds. Yard Act has 12 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 2023–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Trench Coat Museum”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #8. The station that charted Yard Act most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
Yard Act formed in Leeds in 2019, a post-punk band built on James Smith's words and voice and Ryan Needham's bass, with Sam Shipstone on guitar and Jay Russell on drums since 2020. The grooves are wiry and twitchy, and they leave Smith plenty of room to hold forth.
Their debut, The Overload, came out in 2022 to a critical ovation, went straight in at No. 2 on the UK albums chart and picked up a Mercury Prize nomination later that year. "The Trench Coat Museum" arrived in 2023, a restless, slow-building workout, and Where's My Utopia? in 2024 widened the palette, with Gorillaz's Remi Kabaka Jr. in the producer's chair. For You're Gonna Need a Little Music, in 2026, they went the other way: the four of them wrote it, recorded it and played it together as a working live band.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Yard Act on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Trench Coat Museum | 6 | #8 | – | 2023 | |
| 2 | The Overload | 2 | #648 | – | – | |
| 3 | 100% Endurance | 2 | #569 | – | – | |
| 4 | Trench Coat Museum | 1 | #73 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | Dream Job | 1 | #99 | – | 2024 |
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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