Artist · chart history
Bullet for My Valentine
Band Bridgend United Kingdom Formed 2003
Bullet for My Valentine formed in 2003 in Bridgend, United Kingdom. Bullet for My Valentine has 23 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2018. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Your Betrayal”, which appears on 8 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Bullet for My Valentine most often is 105.7 The Point (St. Louis, MO), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Bullet for My Valentine are proof that you can come out of Bridgend sounding like you were raised on Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slayer, because they were. They started out as Jeff Killed John, covering Metallica and Nirvana, and when the sound shifted the name did too. Matthew Tuck sings and plays rhythm guitar, Michael Paget handles lead, and for years Michael "Moose" Thomas held down the drums, with Jason James and then Jamie Mathias on bass and Jason Bowld taking over the kit later on.
A five-album deal with Sony BMG came in 2002, and the debut, The Poison, arrived in Britain in October 2005 and in America on Valentine's Day 2006, a wink at the band name. It's melodic metalcore at full tilt: machine-gun riffs, twin-guitar harmonies, Tuck swinging between a throat-shredding scream and a big clean chorus on "Tears Don't Fall" and "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around You)". It went gold in America and put them on stages from Download to a US tour with Rob Zombie.
Scream Aim Fire in 2008 and Fever in 2010 each went top five on the Billboard 200, with "Your Betrayal" among the Fever highlights. Temper Temper, Venom, the leaner Gravity with "Over It", and a self-titled album in 2021 kept the machine rolling, and they've won Best British Band at the Kerrang! Awards three times.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bullet for My Valentine on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your Betrayal | 8 | #1 | 1 | 2010 | |
| 2 | All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around You) | 4 | #54 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | Tears Don't Fall | 2 | #64 | – | 2006 | |
| 4 | Fever | 1 | #13 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Bittersweet Memories | 2 | #49 | – | 2010 | |
| 6 | Over It | 2 | #25 | – | 2018 | |
| 7 | Hearts Burst Into Flame | 1 | #64 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | Scream, Aim, Fire | 1 | #75 | – | 2008 | |
| 9 | Letting You Go | 1 | #71 | – | 2018 | |
| 10 | Temper Temper | 1 | #30 | – | 2013 |
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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