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“Waste a Moment” by Kings of Leon

From the album WALLS (2016)

“Waste a Moment” by Kings of Leon appears on 24 radio countdowns from 19 stations between 2016 and 2026. It was first released in 2016 on the album WALLS. Its best result is #2 on the WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #14 alternative song of 2016, #4,437 alternative song of all time and #165 of the '10s.

24countdowns
19stations
#2best position
0#1 finishes
2top 10 finishes
2016–2026years charted

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Kings of Leon kicked off the WALLS campaign in September 2016 with "Waste a Moment", the lead single from their seventh album and a Followill family affair all the way down: Caleb, Jared, Matthew and Nathan share the writing credit. Markus Dravs produced it, Spike Stent mixed it, and Liam O'Neil slips some Minimoog and backing vocals in around the edges.

It's the band at their most sprinting and sunlit, a chiming guitar figure running downhill and Caleb's vocal pitched somewhere between a shout and a grin. The rush paid off: it became their fifth number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and their first since "Radioactive" in 2010, and it held the top of the Adult Alternative chart for 15 weeks, off and on, level with "Clocks" for the second-longest reign there.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2016 18 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2016 91
2016 13 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2016 26
2016 65 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2016 103
2016 29 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2016 99
2016 30 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2016 103
2016 17 WERS 88.9 Boston, MA WERS Top 88 Songs of 2016 88
2016 20 SiriusXM Alt Nation National (SiriusXM satellite radio) SiriusXM Alt Nation's 36 Biggest Alternative Songs of 2016 36
2016 8 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016 104
2016 21 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2016 96
2016 21 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2016 50
2016 58 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2016 88
2016 11 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2016 107
2016 25 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2016 50
2016 30 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016 101
2017 17 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 99
2017 102 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 200
2017 2 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2019 49 103.3 The Edge 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade 103
2019 266 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 30 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s 102
2022 445 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2023 390 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500
2026 884 KXT KXT 917 Song Countdown 917
2026 490 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Also listed as: Waste A Moment.

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