Album · Paramore
RIOT! by Paramore
RIOT! is an album by Paramore, released in 2007. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 48 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Misery Business”, on 33 lists with a best position of #8.
Riot!, Paramore's second album, came out on Fueled by Ramen on June 12, 2007, and the kids from Franklin, Tennessee, sound like they've been waiting their whole lives to get this loud. David Bendeth produced it and co-wrote the songs with Hayley Williams and guitarist Josh Farro, and the record is punchy guitar rock with pop hooks sharpened to a point: Farro's guitars bright and jagged, Zac Farro drumming like the clock's running out, Jeremy Davis on bass, and Williams belting over the lot with a range and a bite that made her impossible to ignore.
"Misery Business" was the breakthrough, the song that carried the band into the mainstream, and "crushcrushcrush" and "That's What You Get" both went platinum on their own. The album climbed to number 15 on the Billboard 200, earned the band a Best New Artist Grammy nomination, and eventually went triple platinum in the US.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from RIOT! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misery Business | 33 | #8 | – | 2007–2026 | |
| 2 | crushcrushcrush | 15 | #11 | – | 2007–2008 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.