Artist · chart history
Atreyu
Band Yorba Linda United States Formed 1998 US metalcore band
Atreyu formed in 1998 in Yorba Linda, United States. Atreyu has 36 chart appearances on 30 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Falling Down”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #13. The station that charted Atreyu most often is 98KUPD (Phoenix, AZ), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
Atreyu crawled out of Yorba Linda, deep in Orange County, in 1998, and by the middle of the 2000s they were flying the metalcore flag as high as anybody. Alex Varkatzas fronted the band, with guitarists Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel building walls of riffing around him. Marc "Porter" McKnight arrived on bass in 2004 and would later take on the unclean vocals himself.
Victory Records was their home. Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses kicked things off in 2002, then The Curse brought "Right Side of the Bed" in 2004, all melodrama and hardcore snarl colliding with sung hooks. A Death-Grip on Yesterday followed in 2006 with "Ex's and Oh's", and Lead Sails Paper Anchor in 2007 delivered "Falling Down" and "Becoming the Bull", which sit closer to hard rock than to the mosh pit.
They never stopped. Congregation of the Damned, Long Live, In Our Wake and Baptize kept the albums coming, Kyle Rosa took over the drums in 2020, and the tally reached ten studio albums with The End Is Not the End in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Atreyu on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling Down | 7 | #13 | – | 2008 | |
| 2 | Slow Burn | 5 | #14 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Warrior | 3 | #12 | – | 2021 | |
| 4 | Becoming the Bull | 7 | #21 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | Right Side of the Bed | 2 | #53 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | Ex's and Oh's | 3 | #58 | – | 2006 | |
| 7 | Gone | 1 | #20 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Storm to Pass | 2 | #63 | – | 2009 | |
| 9 | The Time Is Now | 3 | #20 | – | 2018 | |
| 10 | Becoming the Ball | 1 | #39 | – | 2007 | |
| 11 | Untouchable | 1 | #70 | – | 2022 | |
| 12 | House of Gold | 1 | #26 | – | 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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