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Powerman 5000

Band Boston United States Formed 1991

Powerman 5000 formed in 1991 in Boston, United States. Powerman 5000 has 39 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 19 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “When Worlds Collide”, which appears on 24 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted Powerman 5000 most often is 107.7 The End (Seattle, WA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1999.

39appearances

37countdowns

6songs charted

19stations

0#1 finishes

1999–2023years

Powerman 5000 came out of Boston in 1991, and whoever else passed through the lineup, Spider One, younger brother of Rob Zombie, was always the man at the microphone. Guitarist Adam 12 rode alongside him until 2005, and together they built a thudding, industrial-strength metal machine with a taste for B-movie drama.

It all clicked on Tonight the Stars Revolt! in 1999, an album whose title alone sounds like a drive-in poster. It climbed to number 29 on the Billboard 200, their high-water mark, on the strength of the stomping "When Worlds Collide" and "Nobody's Real", with "Supernova Goes Pop" riding along behind. Anyone for Doomsday? followed in 2001 with "Bombshell", and Transform arrived in 2003 carrying "Free".

The band has kept going through a long string of lineup changes, Terry Corso, Dave Pino and Nick Quijano among the players who came after Adam 12, and the catalog has grown to 11 studio albums.

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

Songs by Powerman 5000 on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	When Worlds Collide	1,053	24	#15	–	1999
2	Nobody's Real	170	8	#31	–	2000
3	Free	102	3	#59	–	2003
4	Bombshell	43	2	#98	–	2001
5	Supernova Goes Pop	16	1	#90	–	2000
6	Sid Vicious in a Dress	5	1	#94	–	2017

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.

99 00 01 03 17

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2023	192	When Worlds Collide	105.9 The X July 420 (2023)
2023	83	When Worlds Collide	WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2023
2022	203	When Worlds Collide	105.9 The X July 420 (2022)
2021	202	When Worlds Collide	105.9 The X July 420 (2021)
2020	235	When Worlds Collide	105.9 The X July 420 (2020)
2017	94	Sid Vicious in a Dress	98KUPD Top 98 of 2017
2014	496	When Worlds Collide	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014)
2013	146	When Worlds Collide	KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time
2007	246	When Worlds Collide	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)
2006	312	When Worlds Collide	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)
2003	100	Free	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003
2003	59	Free	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003
2003	87 (tie)	Free	WBER Listener Countdown 2003
2002	734	When Worlds Collide	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)
2001	98	Bombshell	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001
2001	117 (tie)	Bombshell	WBER Listener Countdown 2001
2000	93	Nobody's Real	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000
2000	52	When Worlds Collide	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000
2000	85	Nobody's Real	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000
2000	74	Nobody's Real	The End Top 107 Songs of 2000
2000	90	Supernova Goes Pop	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2000
2000	31	Nobody's Real	KEDJ Millennium Meltdown Countdown 2001
2000	75	Nobody's Real	WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K
2000	87	Nobody's Real	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2000
2000	69	When Worlds Collide	KEDJ Countdown 2000 (106 songs)
1999	23	When Worlds Collide	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999
1999	62	When Worlds Collide	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999
1999	69	When Worlds Collide	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999
1999	30	When Worlds Collide	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999
1999	46	When Worlds Collide	K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999
1999	25	When Worlds Collide	WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999
1999	48	When Worlds Collide	The End Top 107 Songs of 1999
1999	89	Nobody's Real	The End Top 107 Songs of 1999
1999	63	When Worlds Collide	89X Top 89 Songs of 1999
1999	15	When Worlds Collide	WBER Listener Countdown 1999
1999	59	When Worlds Collide	Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999
1999	690	When Worlds Collide	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	913	Nobody's Real	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	470	When Worlds Collide	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)

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