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Alkaline Trio
Band McHenry United States Formed 1996 rock band
Alkaline Trio formed in 1996 in McHenry, United States. Alkaline Trio has 39 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 19 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Help Me”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #29. The station that charted Alkaline Trio most often is 88.3 The Sting (Cleveland, OH), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
Alkaline Trio started out in late 1996 with Matt Skiba singing and playing guitar, Rob Doran on bass and Glenn Porter on drums, and cut their debut single, "Sundials", the next year. When Doran left, Dan Andriano took over bass and became a second lead singer, and the band's twin-voice attack was born: Skiba's sneer and Andriano's melodic croon, trading off over buzzsaw punk.
The For Your Lungs Only EP and the debut album Goddamnit both arrived in 1998, then Maybe I'll Catch Fire in 2000. Mike Felumlee drummed on From Here to Infirmary in 2001, the record that got them noticed far beyond the basements, and Derek Grant made his recording debut on Good Mourning in 2003, home to "We've Had Enough" and "All On Black". Crimson in 2005 dressed things up with overdubs and extra instruments on "Time To Waste" and "Mercy Me", and Agony & Irony (2008), their Epic Records release, brought "Help Me" and "Over And Out".
This Addiction, in 2010, was a deliberate return to their punk roots, cut with early producer Matt Allison, and it became their highest-charting album. Grant left in 2023 after more than two decades, Atom Willard came and went, and Skiba and Andriano now carry on with Tosh Peterson on drums.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Alkaline Trio on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Help Me | 10 | #29 | – | 2008 | |
| 2 | Time To Waste | 7 | #33 | – | 2005 | |
| 3 | We've Had Enough | 8 | #35 | – | 2003 | |
| 4 | Over And Out | 3 | #31 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Mercy Me | 4 | #40 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | Oblivion | 1 | #27 | – | 2025 | |
| 7 | This Addiction | 3 | #69 | – | 2010 | |
| 8 | The American Scream | 1 | #81 | – | 2010 | |
| 9 | All On Black | 1 | #80 | – | 2004 | |
| 10 | Demon And Division | 1 | #79 | – | 2019 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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