Song · April Wine
“Roller” by April Wine
From the album First Glance (1978)
“Roller” by April Wine appears on 15 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1982 and 2025. It was first released in 1978 on the album First Glance. Its best result is #164 on the KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,655 classic rock song of all time.
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"Roller" came rolling off First Glance, April Wine's 1978 album, and it did what the Canadian band hadn't managed in years: it cracked America. Myles Goodwyn wrote the words and music on his own, and the song reached No. 25 on Canada's RPM 100 and peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1979.
For most of the decade April Wine's success had stopped at the border. "Roller" was their first hit outside Canada since "You Could Have Been a Lady" back in 1972, it caught on across North America right away, and it put them back on the international map. It never really went away, either: it is still a fixture of the band's catalog and of classic rock stations on both sides of that border.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 306 | 95.5 KLOS | KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) | 499 |
| 1990 | 209 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 222 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 195 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 164 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1997 | 217 | 104.5 KZEP | KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) | 500 |
| 1998 | 228 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 260 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 842 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2011 | 1070 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 1138 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 552 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 931 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 554 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2025 | 499 | 102.5 WDVE | DVE Memorial Day 500 (2025) | 500 |
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