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Creed
Band Tallahassee United States Formed 1995 US rock band from Tallahassee, FL
Creed formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, United States. Creed has 224 chart appearances on 112 radio countdowns from 45 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Higher”, which appears on 47 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Creed most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 19 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
Creed came out of Tallahassee, Florida, with Scott Stapp singing, Mark Tremonti on lead guitar, Brian Marshall on bass and Scott Phillips on drums, and they became one of the leading names in post-grunge at the turn of the millennium. The sound was huge and earnest: Tremonti's heavy, grinding riffs, a rhythm section that moved like a freight train, and Stapp's deep, booming voice reaching for the heavens on every chorus.
My Own Prison, in 1997, set it up, with the title track, "One", "Torn" and "What's This Life For". Human Clay, in 1999, blew the doors off: "Higher", "What If" and "With Arms Wide Open", which went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Grammy for Best Rock Song in 2001, and the album went diamond, certified 11 times platinum. The critics mostly turned up their noses at both records, and the public bought them anyway.
Marshall left in 2000, so Tremonti handled bass on Weathered in 2001, which kept the run going with "My Sacrifice", "One Last Breath" and "Bullets", their third multi-platinum album in a row. Creed split in 2004: Stapp went solo, while Tremonti, Phillips and Marshall started Alter Bridge with Myles Kennedy.
They reunited in 2009, released Full Circle that year and toured until parting again in 2012. After 11 years away they got back together in July 2023 and lined up headlining tours for 2024, 2025 and 2026. They have sold more than 28 million records in the US and more than 53 million albums worldwide, enough to make them the ninth best-selling act of the 2000s. On the countdowns, "Higher", "My Sacrifice" and "My Own Prison" still climb the highest.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Creed on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Higher | 47 | #6 | – | 1999 | |
| 2 | My Own Prison | 37 | #3 | – | 1998 | |
| 3 | My Sacrifice | 27 | #5 | – | 2001 | |
| 4 | With Arms Wide Open | 22 | #5 | – | 2000 | |
| 5 | One | 19 | #2 | – | 1999 | |
| 6 | What If | 13 | #4 | – | 2000 | |
| 7 | What's This Life For | 12 | #4 | – | 1998 | |
| 8 | One Last Breath | 10 | #17 | – | 2002 | |
| 9 | Torn | 9 | #18 | – | 1998 | |
| 10 | Overcome | 7 | #17 | – | 2009 | |
| 11 | Are You Ready? | 4 | #55 | – | 2000 | |
| 12 | Bullets | 3 | #51 | – | 2002 | |
| 13 | Weathered | 4 | #49 | – | 2002 | |
| 14 | My Sacrficie | 1 | #36 | – | 2001 | |
| 15 | Faceless Man | 1 | #69 | – | 2000 | |
| 16 | Here With Me | 1 | #75 | – | 2002 | |
| 17 | To Whom It May Concern | 1 | #79 | – | 2001 | |
| 18 | Hide | 1 | #90 | – | 2002 | |
| 19 | Stand Here With Me | 1 | #84 | – | 2002 |
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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