Artist · chart history
Flyleaf
Band Belton United States Formed 2002
Flyleaf formed in 2002 in Belton, United States. Flyleaf has 52 chart appearances on 43 radio countdowns from 27 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2019. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Again”, which appears on 23 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Flyleaf most often is 94.1 The Zone (Rochester, NY), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Flyleaf formed in Belton, Texas, in 2002 around Lacey Sturm, a singer who could go from a whisper to a throat-shredding scream inside a single bar, with Sameer Bhattacharya and Jared Hartmann on guitars, Pat Seals on bass and James Culpepper on drums. They spent 2003 grinding it out on stages across the country, cut an EP in 2004 with "Breathe Today", and in 2005 dropped their self-titled debut album, a slab of churning, down-and-dirty alt-metal that eventually went platinum on the strength of more than one million copies sold. "I'm So Sick" and "Fully Alive" hit hard, but "All Around Me" was the one that stuck, a slow, hushed build that swells into a roar.
They crossed over, too, landing on Christian rock and Christian pop charts as well as mainstream rock ones. Memento Mori, in 2009, kept the pressure on with "Again" and "Chasm".
Sturm announced she was leaving shortly before their third album, New Horizons, came out in 2012. Kristen May took over the microphone until August 2016, the band then went quiet for several years, and in November 2022 they announced that Sturm was back.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Flyleaf on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Again | 23 | #3 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | All Around Me | 10 | #31 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | Fully Alive | 7 | #16 | – | 2007 | |
| 4 | Chasm | 4 | #60 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | I'm So Sick | 3 | #74 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | Missing | 2 | #52 | – | 2010 | |
| 7 | New Horizons | 2 | #93 | – | 2012 | |
| 8 | Breathe Today | 1 | #106 | – | 2007 |
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.
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about Flyleaf.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.