Album · 30 Seconds to Mars
This Is War by 30 Seconds to Mars
This Is War is an album by 30 Seconds to Mars, released in 2009. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 88 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Kings & Queens”, on 41 lists with a best position of #9.
This Is War, the third album from Jared and Shannon Leto's Thirty Seconds to Mars, landed in December 2009, four years after A Beautiful Lie made them a big deal. It took two years to make, and for much of that stretch the band was tangled up with Virgin in a court case over an alleged contract breach; the two sides settled in April 2009 and EMI signed the group before the year was out. Flood and Steve Lillywhite produced.
The fight is all over the record. It plays like a concept album, even a rock opera, built out of the band's own struggles, and the sound balloons out to match: prog grandeur, new wave pulse, industrial grind and metal heft, with Jared howling over the top and Tomo Miličević filling every corner. "Kings & Queens" and the title track are the war cries. Critics went for the experiment, it has sold more than four million copies, and the Into the Wild Tour behind it earned a Guinness World Record for 300 shows in a single album cycle.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from This Is War on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kings & Queens | 41 | #9 | – | 2009–2015 | |
| 2 | This is War | 23 | #2 | – | 2010–2020 | |
| 3 | Closer To The Edge | 24 | #8 | – | 2010–2011 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.