Artist · chart history
Hinder
Band Oklahoma City United States Formed 2001 American rock band
Hinder formed in 2001 in Oklahoma City, United States. Hinder has 27 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Lips of an Angel”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Hinder most often is WCCC The Rock (Hartford, CT), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
Hinder came roaring out of Oklahoma City in 2001, put together by singer Austin John Winkler, guitarist Joe "Blower" Garvey and drummer Cody Hanson. Bassist Cole Parker came aboard in 2002 while they cut their debut EP, Far from Close, and when he left the following year they regrouped with Mike Rodden on bass and guitarist Mark King. Hanson and Winkler wrote most of the songs, and they wrote them big: post-grunge riffs with hard-rock swagger and choruses aimed at the back row of the arena.
Extreme Behavior, their first full album, landed in 2005. For every chest-thumper like "Get Stoned" there was a slow-burning, heart-on-sleeve ballad like "Lips of an Angel", and the album kept feeding rock radio with "How Long", "Homecoming Queen" and "Better Than Me". By 2007 the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame had already called them home.
Take It to the Limit, All American Nightmare and Welcome to the Freakshow kept the party going until Winkler quit in 2013. Marshal Dutton took over the microphone for When the Smoke Clears and The Reign, and Back to Life, out on Evil Teen Records in 2025, ended a 7-year wait for new music.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Hinder on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lips of an Angel | 8 | #4 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Get Stoned | 5 | #25 | – | 2005 | |
| 3 | How Long | 3 | #31 | – | 2006 | |
| 4 | All American Nightmare | 2 | #22 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Homecoming Queen | 1 | #56 | – | 2007 | |
| 6 | Better Than Me | 1 | #61 | – | 2007 | |
| 7 | Live Without It | 2 | #64 | – | 2025 | |
| 8 | Without You | 1 | #77 | – | 2009 | |
| 9 | Remember Me | 1 | #83 | – | 2017 | |
| 10 | Use Me | 1 | #89 | – | 2008 | |
| 11 | Youth of Yesterday | 1 | #85 | – | 2009 | |
| 12 | Soul Creation | 1 | #97 | – | 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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