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Avenged Sevenfold
Band Huntington Beach United States Formed 1999 American metal band
Avenged Sevenfold formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach, United States. Avenged Sevenfold has 129 chart appearances on 87 radio countdowns from 31 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Nightmare”, which appears on 19 lists and was voted number one twice. In total the artist has topped 2 countdowns. The station that charted Avenged Sevenfold most often is 94.3 WCYY (Portland, ME), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Huntington Beach, 1999: M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance and drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan start Avenged Sevenfold, and before long Synyster Gates and bassist Johnny Christ have filled out the lineup. The early records, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet and Waking the Fallen, came straight out of metalcore. City of Evil, their third album and their first for a major label, threw most of that overboard for the galloping, guitar-mad grandeur of traditional heavy metal, with "Bat Country" and "Seize the Day" leading the charge and a taste for dramatic imagery on the sleeves and the merch to match.
The self-titled record kept them climbing with "Almost Easy" and "Critical Acclaim", but in 2009 the Rev died. Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy sat in, and Nightmare, released in 2010, became their first album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Arin Ilejay took over the drums for Hail to the King, a 2013 salute to the band's heroes that also went to the top.
Former Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman arrived in time for The Stage, a surprise 2016 release and their first concept album, bending hard toward progressive metal. Life Is But a Dream... pushed further out still in 2023. Along the way they also wrote songs for the Call of Duty: Black Ops games.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Avenged Sevenfold on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nightmare | 19 | #1 | 2 | 2010 | |
| 2 | Bat Country | 24 | #13 | – | 2005 | |
| 3 | So Far Away | 12 | #4 | – | 2011 | |
| 4 | Almost Easy | 15 | #2 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | Welcome to the Family | 14 | #14 | – | 2011 | |
| 6 | Hail to the King | 6 | #4 | – | 2013 | |
| 7 | Afterlife | 7 | #8 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | Scream | 4 | #12 | – | 2009 | |
| 9 | Buried Alive | 3 | #20 | – | 2011 | |
| 10 | The Stage | 2 | #11 | – | 2016 | |
| 11 | This Means War | 2 | #8 | – | 2014 | |
| 12 | God Damn | 2 | #26 | – | 2017 | |
| 13 | Carry On | 3 | #44 | – | 2012 | |
| 14 | Mad Hatter | 4 | #25 | – | 2018 | |
| 15 | Critical Acclaim | 1 | #6 | – | 2007 | |
| 16 | Seize the Day | 1 | #19 | – | 2006 | |
| 17 | Shepherd of Fire | 2 | #37 | – | 2013 | |
| 18 | Nobody | 1 | #6 | – | 2023 | |
| 19 | Wish You Were Here | 3 | #63 | – | 2017 | |
| 20 | Mattel | 1 | #49 | – | 2024 | |
| 21 | Beast and the Harlot | 2 | #72 | – | 2006 |
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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