Chartbreaker: Could Rising Rock Band Edgehill Top Alternative Airplay Twice? Why ‘Love To Go’ Is Climbing Fast
Categoria: Musica
After scoring its first chart entry and No. 1 hit in April with "Doubletake," follow-up single “Love To Go” has reached No. 23 on Alternative Airplay.
Por Billboard | 04/08/2026
While getting its start in college, playing mostly tailgates and house parties, rock band Edgehill’s initial following was unsurprisingly comprised of teenagers and 20-somethings. But this year, lead vocalist Chris Kelly has noticed an uptick of older faces in the crowd. “I remember the first time I saw someone with gray hair in our audience, and I was like, ‘Did you find us on the radio?’ ” he recalls with a laugh. His hunch was well-founded: As Edgehill — consisting of Kelly, 23, guitarist/vocalist Jake Zimmerman, 26, and drummer Aidan Cunningham, 26 — prepares for its first headlining tour this fall, it will hit the road with a pair of bona fide radio hits in hand. The grunge-influenced “Doubletake” scored the band its first Billboard chart entry, climbing up Alternative Airplay before reaching No. 1 in April. Now, Edgehill’s alternative pop follow-up, “Love to Go,” is ascending the same list. Related How Rising Rock Bands Edgehill & Dexter and the Moonrocks Landed Their Biggest Chart Hits to Date Buffalo Traffic Jam Talks Capturing a Transformative Year on Its 'Audible Photo Catalog' of a Debut Album, 'Pictures of You' David Z, Grammy-Winning Producer Who Helped Prince's Early Career, Dies at 78 For Kelly, growing up in Charlottesville, Va. with a mom who worked as a music teacher and flutist and a dad who was a singer-songwriter outside of his day job meant that a career in the industry was always in the cards. “My mom had me matching pitch when I was a baby, essentially getting me to coo to a pitch,” Kelly says. “There was never a time when there wasn’t music going on in the house.” Growing up, he developed eclectic taste, with favorites including John Mayer, Frank Ocean, The Backseat Lovers and Peach Pit. His move to Nashville in 2021 to attend Vanderbilt University — plus some later guidance from his bandmates — ultimately steered Kelly toward the ‘90s alt-rock influence that shapes Edgehill’s sound today. Kelly met Zimmerman at a jam session during his early days on campus that August. “We just sat next to each other in the same circle of people; he was the first person I played with,” Kelly says. At another session a month later, they finished what would become the group’s first single: “Shooting Glances,” which the band self-released in June 2022. “Almost instantly we were like, ‘Let’s keep doing this,’ ” Kelly says. The next time they linked up to write, it was fueled by a melody that came to Zimmerman in a dream, à la Paul McCartney with The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” Again, the duo fleshed out the makings of the track within a few hours. “There was such an innocence to that beginning part of the band where we were just excited to be finishing songs together,” Kelly says. That second song became “Love to Go,” which they wouldn’t release for another four-plus years. Edgehill’s current iteration took shape the following summer, in 2023, when Kelly met Cunningham while working at a coffee shop during a break