Album · Evanescence
The Open Door by Evanescence
The Open Door is an album by Evanescence, released in 2006. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 21 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Call Me When You're Sober”, on 14 lists with a best position of #9.
The Open Door, Evanescence's second album, came out on Wind-up in 2006, and this time Amy Lee held the reins completely. With co-founder Ben Moody long gone, she wrote most of the songs with guitarist Terry Balsamo over 18 months, and the recording was held up when Balsamo suffered a stroke. Dave Fortman produced.
Lee throws everything she loves into the cauldron: classical flourishes, homemade sounds, industrial grind, symphonic-metal bombast, prog detours, electronics and full choirs, with her voice soaring over the storm. "Call Me When You're Sober" is the stomping, swaggering lead single, "Lithium" broods, and "Sweet Sacrifice" crunches hard enough to earn a Grammy nod for Best Hard Rock Performance. Fans lined up: more than 447,000 copies went out the door in its first week, enough to put it at the top of the Billboard 200.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Open Door on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call Me When You're Sober | 14 | #9 | – | 2006–2010 | |
| 2 | Lithium | 6 | #24 | – | 2006–2007 | |
| 3 | Sweet Sacrifice | 1 | #40 | – | 2007 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.