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“Audience Of One” by Rise Against
From the album Appeal to Reason (2008)
“Audience Of One” by Rise Against appears on 29 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 2008 and 2023. It was first released in 2008 on the album Appeal to Reason. Its best result is #3 on the X103.9 Top Songs of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #14 alternative song of 2009, #3,848 alternative song of all time and #110 of the '00s.
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"Audience of One" was the second single Rise Against pulled from Appeal to Reason, their 2008 album, and it's a Tim McIlrath song through and through: the frontman wrote it himself, with Bill Stevenson producing. It's melodic punk built for big rooms, a churning, urgent verse that snaps open into a chorus made for fists in the air.
KROQ in Los Angeles was spinning it by mid-October 2008, months before it formally went to radio in January 2009, the same month Brett Simon's video premiered on MySpace. It climbed to number four on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart; of the band's singles, only "Re-Education (Through Labor)" and "Savior" have done better.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 186 | 94.1 The Zone | 94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade | 210 |
| 2014 | 305 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 322 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 402 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2023 | 373 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
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