Album · Billy Talent
Billy Talent by Billy Talent
Billy Talent is an album by Billy Talent, released in 2003. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 23 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Try Honesty”, on 13 lists with a best position of #13.
Billy Talent's self-titled album hit stores through Atlantic in September 2003, and for the four friends from Mississauga, Ontario, it was a debut ten years in the making. Benjamin Kowalewicz, Ian D'Sa, Jonathan Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk first played together in 1993 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School as Pezz, even releasing an album, Watoosh!, under that name, and lurked in Toronto's underground until 2001. Legal trouble forced the name change, and a contact of Kowalewicz's at Warner Music Canada got them signed.
The record is a jolt of post-hardcore adrenaline: D'Sa's needling single-note riffs, Kowalewicz's raw, abrasive howl, and a rhythm section that never lets up, sweaty and erratic but built for the radio. "Try Honesty", "River Below" and "The Ex" carried it. It entered the Canadian chart at number 6 and eventually went four times platinum there, and ten years on the band toured Canada playing it front to back.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Billy Talent on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Try Honesty | 13 | #13 | – | 2003–2012 | |
| 2 | River Below | 6 | #12 | – | 2004–2010 | |
| 3 | The Ex | 3 | #26 | – | 2004–2010 | |
| 4 | Nothing to Lose | 1 | #125 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.