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“This is War” by 30 Seconds to Mars

From the album This Is War (2009)

“This is War” by 30 Seconds to Mars appears on 23 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 2010 and 2020. It was first released in 2009 on the album This Is War. Its best result is #2 on the 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #11 alternative song of 2010 and #39 of the '10s.

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"This Is War" is the title track of 30 Seconds to Mars' third album, from 2009, and Jared Leto wrote it as a call to arms on the grandest scale he could manage. It hit American radio in March 2010 as the album's second single. Flood produced it with the band, Ryan Williams engineered and mixed, and the result is stadium rock built like a war film: chanting crowd vocals, drums that march, and Leto bellowing over the top as if he's leading the charge himself.

The video took its time arriving. Shot on April 7, 2010, it was held back for nearly a year, and after a supposed leak it finally surfaced in April 2011: the band dressed as US Marines rolling through the Afghan desert in an armored Humvee, while tanks, jets and helicopters float off toward a heap in the sky.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2010	7	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 30 Songs of 2010	30
2010	8	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2010	91
2010	2	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010	101
2010	10	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2010	89
2010	6	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2010	99
2010	18	FM 102/1 Milwaukee, WI	FM 102/1 Top 50 of 2010	50
2010	43	103.1 The River Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT	103.1 The River Top 103 of 2010	102
2010	6	103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2010	103
2010	27	Channel 92.3 San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area, CA	Channel 92.3 Top 92 Songs of 2010	92
2010	27	ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2010	51
2010	89	KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA	KSLG Top 94 Slugtunez of 2010	94
2010	20	94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX	94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010	94
2010	10	KFMA Tucson, AZ	KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2010	50
2010	12	94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY	94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010	91
2010	32	89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA	89.7 The River Top 89 of 2010	89
2010	4	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2010	50
2010	4	KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA	KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2010	91
2010	27	94.3 WCYY Portland, ME	WCYY Top 50 of 2010	50
2010	6	99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010	99
2010	2	105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO	105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2010	105
2010	21	WBRU Providence, RI	WBRU Top 95 Songs of 2010	95
2011	84	97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL	97X Top 97 of 2011	97

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2020	28	X96	X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade	100

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