Artist · chart history · #197 in alternative artist polls
Paramore
Band Franklin United States Formed 2004 American pop rock band
Paramore formed in 2004 in Franklin, United States. Paramore has 192 chart appearances on 139 radio countdowns from 50 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Misery Business”, which appears on 33 lists with a best position of #8. The station that charted Paramore most often is 88.3 The Sting (Cleveland, OH), with 15 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Paramore came out of Franklin, Tennessee, built around a firecracker of a singer. Hayley Williams had been scouted as a teenager and signed to Atlantic on her own, but the label let her stay in a band rather than go solo, on the condition that the rest of the group sign to its Fueled by Ramen subsidiary. With Zac Farro on drums and Josh Farro on guitar, they made All We Know Is Falling in 2005, and then Riot! in 2007 blew the doors off.
"Misery Business" is pop-punk with a boxer's footwork, Williams belting over bright, jackhammer guitars, and "Crushcrushcrush" and "That's What You Get" kept the momentum; the album went platinum and earned a Best New Artist nomination at the Grammys. Brand New Eyes in 2009 went darker on "Decode", "Ignorance" and "Brick by Boring Brick", with "The Only Exception" as its tender curveball.
The Farros left in 2010, and the self-titled Paramore in 2013 became their first number-one album, with "Ain't It Fun" winning a Grammy for Williams and guitarist Taylor York as songwriters. Bassist Jeremy Davis left at the end of 2015, Zac Farro came back in 2017, and This Is Why in 2023 took the Grammy for Best Rock Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Paramore on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misery Business | 33 | #8 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | Decode | 25 | #3 | – | 2009 | |
| 3 | Ignorance | 26 | #10 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Brick By Boring Brick | 21 | #4 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | This Is Why | 16 | #3 | – | 2022 | |
| 6 | crushcrushcrush | 15 | #11 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | Monster | 13 | #9 | – | 2011 | |
| 8 | Running Out of Time | 6 | #7 | – | 2023 | |
| 9 | Careful | 6 | #16 | – | 2010 | |
| 10 | The Only Exception | 6 | #18 | – | 2010 | |
| 11 | Burning Down The House | 4 | #3 | – | 2024 | |
| 12 | Now | 5 | #22 | – | 2013 | |
| 13 | That's What You Get | 5 | #51 | – | 2008 | |
| 14 | Ain't It Fun | 2 | #33 | – | 2014 | |
| 15 | Hard Times | 1 | #25 | – | 2017 | |
| 16 | C'est Comme Ca | 1 | #46 | – | 2023 | |
| 17 | Still Into You | 1 | #28 | – | 2013 | |
| 18 | You First | 1 | #51 | – | 2023 | |
| 19 | Fake Happy | 1 | #71 | – | 2017 | |
| 20 | I Caught Myself | 1 | #80 | – | 2009 | |
| 21 | Hallelujah | 1 | #113 | – | 2008 | |
| 22 | Use Somebody | 1 | #85 | – | 2009 |
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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