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Evanescence
Band Little Rock United States Formed 1995
Evanescence formed in 1995 in Little Rock, United States. Evanescence has 134 chart appearances on 106 radio countdowns from 54 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Bring Me to Life”, which appears on 57 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Evanescence most often is The Buzz (Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Evanescence began in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a partnership between singer and keyboardist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody, a duo putting out independent EPs and a demo through the late '90s before Wind-up Records released their debut album, Fallen, in 2003. It hit like a storm front: Lee's voice, huge and haunted, soaring over crunching metal guitars, piano and gothic atmosphere. "Bring Me to Life" and the piano ballad "My Immortal" pushed it past 4 million copies in the US by January 2004, "Going Under" kept the momentum, and the band took home Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Hard Rock Performance.
Moody was gone by then, and Lee wrote The Open Door, in 2006, with guitarist Terry Balsamo; it was moodier and more ornate, and it brought "Call Me When You're Sober", "Lithium" and "Sweet Sacrifice". With Balsamo, Troy McLawhorn, Tim McCord and Will Hunt, the self-titled 2011 album was the first written as a whole band, and it debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.
Lee took the band independent in 2014. Synthesis reworked old songs with orchestra and electronics, and The Bitter Truth arrived in 2021, with Lee still the voice, the pianist and the center of gravity: gothic, classical, industrial and metal all at once.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Evanescence on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bring Me to Life | 57 | #1 | 1 | 2003 | |
| 2 | Going Under | 23 | #16 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Call Me When You're Sober | 14 | #9 | – | 2006 | |
| 4 | What You Want | 13 | #26 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Afterlife | 5 | #7 | – | 2025 | |
| 6 | My Immortal | 4 | #17 | – | 2004 | |
| 7 | Lithium | 6 | #24 | – | 2007 | |
| 8 | Better Without You | 3 | #13 | – | 2021 | |
| 9 | Sweet Sacrifice | 1 | #40 | – | 2007 | |
| 10 | My Immortal (Rock Version) | 1 | #54 | – | 2004 | |
| 11 | Everybody's Fool | 2 | #82 | – | 2004 | |
| 12 | Fight Like a Girl | 1 | #72 | – | 2025 | |
| 13 | Use My Voice | 2 | #23 | – | 2020 |
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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