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The Cult are a British rock band that was formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk band with singles such as “She Sells Sanctuary”, before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as “Love Removal Machine”. The band fuses a “heavy metal revivalist” sound with the “pseudo-mysticism ... of The Doors and the guitar-orchestrations of Led Zeppelin ... while adding touches of post-punk goth rock”. Since their earliest form in Bradford during 1981, the band has had various line-ups, and the longest serving members are vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, the band’s two songwriters. After moving to London, the band released the album Love in 1985, which charted... Read on...

• Rank
• Artist
• Song
• Year
• Points

• 1
• The Cult
• She Sells Sancturary
• 1985
• 519

• 2
• The Cult
• Rain
• 1985
• 58

• 3
• The Cult
• Edie
• 1989
• 35

• 4
• The Cult
• Ceremony
• 2007
• 30

• 5
• The Cult
• Nirvana
• 1992
• 18