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“Nightmare” by Avenged Sevenfold

From the album Nightmare (2010)

“Nightmare” by Avenged Sevenfold appears on 19 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2010 and 2021. It was first released in 2010 on the album Nightmare. Its best result is #1 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2010, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 2010, #5,784 alternative song of all time and #95 of the '10s.

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Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare [Official Music Video]

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"Nightmare" kicked open Avenged Sevenfold's fifth studio album of the same name in May 2010, the lead single and the band's first without drummer The Rev, who died in December 2009 and still shares the writing credit with M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance and Johnny Christ. It's a song told from inside hell, one of the damned taunting a new arrival that he has nobody to blame but himself.

Mike Elizondo produced, Andy Wallace mixed, and Stevie Blacke's strings and David Palmer's piano thicken the gloom around the riffs. An animated lyric video pulled more than 275,000 plays in its first 24 hours, and the song was up for Best Single at the 2010 Kerrang! Awards, losing to You Me at Six's "Liquid Confidence".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Hard Rock & Metal

#58 of the '10s

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2010	3	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010	101
2010	1	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2010	89
2010	41	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2010	99
2010	37	KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA	KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2010	91
2010	16	99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010	99
2010	3	105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO	105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2010	105
2010	51	103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2010	103
2010	72	94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX	94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010	94
2010	22	94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY	94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010	91
2010	6	KFMA Tucson, AZ	KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2010	50
2010	8	94.3 WCYY Portland, ME	WCYY Top 50 of 2010	50
2010	1	89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA	89.7 The River Top 89 of 2010	89
2011	82	105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO	105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2011	105
2011	4	89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA	89.7 The River Top 89 of 2011	89

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2014	423	94.3 WCYY	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014)	500
2015	430	94.3 WCYY	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015)	500
2019	17	93X	93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s)	93
2019	461	94.3 WCYY	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019)	500
2021	2	KISW	KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from the '10s	25

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