Artist · chart history
Asking Alexandria
Band Dubai United Kingdom Formed 2006 English metalcore band
Asking Alexandria formed in 2006 in Dubai, United Kingdom. Asking Alexandria has 23 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Alone in a Room”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #2. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Asking Alexandria most often is 98KUPD (Phoenix, AZ), with 11 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Asking Alexandria started as Ben Bruce's idea in 2006 and turned into a proper band in York in 2008, with Danny Worsnop out front, James Cassells on drums and Cameron Liddell on guitar; bassist Sam Bettley came aboard in 2009. On Sumerian Records they made their name as metalcore bruisers, breakdowns and screams and all.
The ride has not been smooth. Worsnop left in January 2015 and Denis Stoff sang on The Black in 2016, with "I Won't Give In" as its fist-in-the-air moment, before Stoff was gone by October and Worsnop was back. The self-titled album of 2017 was the big swerve away from their old sound, led by "Alone in a Room" and "Into the Fire". Like a House on Fire in 2020 kept on down that road, toward a plainer, more melodic hard rock, with "Antisocialist" and "The Violence", and See What's on the Inside followed in 2021 with "Alone Again".
Where Do We Go from Here? arrived in 2023, and Bruce, who got it all started, left the lineup in 2024. What remains is a band that grew up loudly and in public, and got a lot catchier doing it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Asking Alexandria on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alone in a Room | 3 | #2 | – | 2018 | |
| 2 | Alone Again | 4 | #7 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | Antisocialist | 2 | #1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| 4 | Into the Fire | 3 | #17 | – | 2017 | |
| 5 | Dark Void | 2 | #16 | – | 2024 | |
| 6 | They Don't Want What We Want | 2 | #31 | – | 2021 | |
| 7 | Never Gonna Learn | 1 | #28 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Moving On | 1 | #12 | – | 2014 | |
| 9 | Break Down The Walls | 1 | #23 | – | 2014 | |
| 10 | The Violence | 1 | #18 | – | 2019 | |
| 11 | I Won't Give In | 1 | #19 | – | 2015 | |
| 12 | Someone Somewhere | 1 | #56 | – | 2011 | |
| 13 | Faded Out | 1 | #79 | – | 2022 |
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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