Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube
Skip to YouTube video

Loading player…

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss

A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site.

The Magnetic Fields

  • Listeners

    756.5K

  • Scrobbles

    37.3M

  • Listeners

    756.5K

  • Scrobbles

    37.3M

Years Active
1990 – present (30 years)
Founded In
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. While synth-pop often forms the foundation of their music, The Magnetic Fields' music borrows from many other styles, notably , and . The band was originally formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990 by friends Merritt and (percussionist/pianist/vocalist) Claudia Gonson. While 1991's Distant Plastic Tre… read more
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. While synth-pop often forms the foundati… read more
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. While synth-pop often forms the foundation of their music, The Magnetic Fields' music borrows from many oth… read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Similar To

  1. Avatar for The 6ths

  2. Avatar for Future Bible Heroes

  3. Avatar for Stephin Merritt
View all artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Album Loved Track name Buy Options Listeners
1 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 1,642 listeners
2 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 950 listeners
3 Play track Holiday
  • Loading
 805 listeners
4 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 610 listeners
5 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 482 listeners
6 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 423 listeners
7 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 355 listeners
8 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 329 listeners
9 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 297 listeners
10 Play track 69 Love Songs
  • Loading
 286 listeners

View all tracks

Albums

  1. 252,620 listeners

    7 Sep 1999 · 69 tracks

    69 Love Songs
    • Loading

  2. 138,323 listeners

    3 May 2004 · 14 tracks

    i
    • Loading

  3. 114,963 listeners

    10 Jan 2008 · 13 tracks

    Distortion
    • Loading

  4. 86,008 listeners

    27 Sep 1994 · 14 tracks

    Holiday
    • Loading

View all albums

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
1,087
1,143
1,050
999
904
905
1,107
1,172
1,156
1,074
1,024
927
935
1,064
1,093
1,052
1,086
1,025
959
969
1,136
1,101
1,105
1,116
1,044
919
904
1,085
1,105
1,100
1,039
139
908
948
1,084
1,143
1,183
1,166
1,041
939
1,004
1,034
1,102
1,114
1,134
1,081
1,126
1,330
1,324
1,396
1,295
1,342
1,058
1,042
1,006
1,155
1,152
1,172
1,206
1,164
970
1,054
1,127
1,156
1,180
1,213
1,168
1,093
1,070
1,227
1,186
1,221
1,197
1,147
985
1,043
1,155
1,218
1,195
1,141
1,105
1,006
1,046
1,172
1,180
1,154
1,218
1,116
1,058
1,001
1,153
1,101
1,157
1,163
1,071
952
933
1,122
1,171
1,140
1,072
1,076
1,008
1,042
1,150
1,237
1,160
1,201
1,113
1,105
1,029
1,183
1,145
1,169
1,162
1,086
1,012
1,027
1,216
1,256
1,173
1,183
1,124
1,047
1,097
1,207
1,256
1,192
1,134
1,056
1,141
1,208
1,235
1,179
1,220
1,366
1,315
1,187
1,165
1,248
182
1,263
1,258
1,230
1,189
1,143
1,224
1,281
1,238
1,267
1,244
1,185
1,087
1,256
1,322
1,209
993
1,029
1,014
1,016
1,176
1,139
992
1,092
1,136
1,069
966
1,091
1,205
1,156
1,225
208
147
1,031
1,234
1,197
1,253
1,241
1,128
1,057
1,096

Upcoming Events

We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.

Add event View all events

Photos

External Links

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

There was an issue displaying the shoutbox. View all shouts

Similar Artists

  1. 60,065 listeners

    Avatar for The 6ths

  2. 43,596 listeners

    Avatar for Future Bible Heroes

  3. 41,168 listeners

    Avatar for Stephin Merritt

  4. 502,902 listeners

    Avatar for Jens Lekman

  5. 1,706,444 listeners

    Avatar for Belle and Sebastian

  6. 24,018 listeners

    Avatar for The Gothic Archies

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

Features

API Calls