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“Help Is On The Way” by Rise Against

From the album Endgame (2011)

“Help Is On The Way” by Rise Against appears on 28 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 2011 and 2023. It was first released in 2011 on the album Endgame. Its best result is #3 on the KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #11 alternative song of 2011, #3,894 alternative song of all time and #38 of the '10s.

28countdowns
21stations
#3best position
0#1 finishes
13top 10 finishes
2011–2023years charted

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Tim McIlrath came back from a trip to New Orleans with "Help Is On the Way" in him, and it finds Rise Against fuming over the slow crawl of relief to places wrecked by disaster, with the lyric nodding to Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It premiered on KROQ in January 2011 and went out as the lead single from their sixth album, Endgame, a week or so later.

The sound splits the difference between punk rock and melodic hardcore. McIlrath sings and plays guitar alongside Zach Blair, with Joe Principe on bass and Brandon Barnes on drums; Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore produced, and Chris Lord-Alge mixed. Critics split down the middle on it, but it still reached 2 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs, and its video follows a family fleeing floodwater as it swallows their neighborhood.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 4 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 30 Songs of 2011 30
2011 8 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2011 91
2011 36 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2011 89
2011 9 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 4 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2011 99
2011 6 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME WCYY Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 9 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 94
2011 35 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2011 94
2011 14 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 94
2011 34 X107.5 Las Vegas, NV X107.5 Top 50 Songs That Didn't Suck 2011 50
2011 4 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011 49
2011 7 KFMA Tucson, AZ KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 10 89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA 89.7 The River Top 89 of 2011 89
2011 5 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011 98
2011 16 Rock 93.5 Columbia, SC Rock 93.5 WARQ Top 93 of 2011 92
2011 3 KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011 92
2011 46 ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011 51
2011 65 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011 88
2011 4 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2011 105
2011 4 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 of 2011 97
2011 92 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 96
2012 85 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2012 91
2012 35 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 Songs of 2012 97

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2014 329 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 326 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2019 382 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 99 The Buzz The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade 99
2023 383 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500

Also listed as: Help is on the Way; Help Is on the Way; Help is On the Way; Help is On The Way.

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