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“Surrender” by Cheap Trick

From the EP Over the Edge (1978)

“Surrender” by Cheap Trick appears on 92 radio countdowns from 34 stations between 1978 and 2026. It was first released in 1978 on the EP Over the Edge. Its best result is #12 on the KISW Top 25 Rock Songs from 1978. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,113 alternative song of all time.

92countdowns
34stations
#12best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1978–2026years charted

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Cheap Trick - Surrender (Official Audio)

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"Surrender" throws open Cheap Trick's Heaven Tonight, released as a single in June 1978, and it's the teenage anthem the late '70s had coming. Rick Nielsen wrote it, words and music, and Tom Werman produced, with Gary Ladinsky engineering, and it tears along on a riff that sounds like pure adrenaline and bubblegum in the same breath.

The story is the joke and the heart of it: a kid whose mom keeps warning him about the diseases girls might carry, whose dad backs her up by revealing she served with the WACs in the Philippines, and who discovers late one night that his parents are a lot wilder than he figured, even getting into his Kiss records. It was the first Cheap Trick single to make the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 62.

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

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1978 12 KISW Seattle-Tacoma, WA KISW Top 25 Rock Songs from 1978 25

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1982 62 95.5 KLOS KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) 499
1994 253 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1995 177 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) 1000
1996 261 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) 1000
1996 471 WNEW-FM WNEW Firecracker 500 (1996) 500
1997 982 102.3 WBAB WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) 1023
1997 394 104.5 KZEP KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) 500
1998 353 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) 488
1998 336 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) 1000
1999 288 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2001 131 WFPK WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time 2000
2002 973 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2004 269 Q101 Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2004 443 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) 885
2011 731 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) 1100
2011 147 97.9 The Loop The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011) 500
2012 154 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2012) 500
2012 231 WYEP WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown 500
2012 752 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2012 169 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2013 267 Big 100 BIG 500 Labor Day Countdown (2013) 500
2013 260 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) 1000
2013 119 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) 500
2013 408 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR CT 500 (2013) 500
2013 446 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2013) 500
2014 170 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2014 597 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2014 200 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 400 (2014) 400
2015 308 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) 500
2015 226 I-95 I-95 Memorial Day Weekend Top 500 (2015) 500
2015 260 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2015 422 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015) 499
2016 435 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2016) 500
2016 333 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2016) 500
2016 144 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2016 211 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2016 77 103.5 The Fox The Fox Memorial Day 500 (2016) 299
2017 252 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2017) 500
2017 153 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) 500
2017 188 97.9 The Loop 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) 540
2018 235 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2018) 500
2018 154 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) 500
2019 449 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2019) 500
2019 270 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2019) 500
2019 245 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2019) 500
2019 543 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2019 323 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2019) 499
2019 249 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2019) 500
2019 334 KEXP KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time 627
2020 1625 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2020 284 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2020) 500
2020 282 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2020) 500
2020 218 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2020 257 Q105.7 Q105.7 Memorial Day 500 (2020) 499
2021 465 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2021 258 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2021) 500
2021 211 WCSX WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) 499
2021 192 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2021) 500
2021 344 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2021) 499
2022 91 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s 908
2022 412 97.1 The River River 500 (2022) 500
2022 197 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) 500
2022 629 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2022 297 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2022 256 94.1 KRNA KRNA Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2022 308 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 262 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2022 88 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2022) 500
2022 454 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2023 171 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 149 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2023) 500
2023 220 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 317 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 695 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2023 256 97.1 The Drive 97.1 The Drive Memorial Day Weekend Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 304 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2023 256 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2023 294 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2024 249 KQRS KQRS KQ 500 (2024) 499
2024 306 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2024) 500
2024 228 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 499
2024 319 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2024) 498
2024 520 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2024 487 KEXP The Best Opening Tracks of All Time 738
2025 485 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2025) 500
2025 250 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 311 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2025) 498
2025 581 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) 1043
2026 128 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2026) 500
2026 264 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2026) 500
2026 1104 WYEP WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time 1180

Charting alongside it in 1978

Best songs of 1978 →
  1. 1Runnin' With The DevilVan Halen
  2. 2Who Are YouThe Who
  3. 3Fat Bottomed GirlsQueen
  4. 4Don't Fear the ReaperBlue Oyster Cult
  5. 5LightsJourney
  6. 6Miss YouThe Rolling Stones

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