Artist · chart history
Sabaton
Band Falun Sweden Formed 1999
Sabaton formed in 1999 in Falun, Sweden. Sabaton has 23 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Primo Victoria”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Sabaton most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 22 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Sabaton formed in Falun, Sweden, in 1999, when singer Joakim Brodén and bassist Pär Sundström teamed up with guitarists Oskar Montelius and Rikard Sundén and drummer Richard Larsson. Their subject is war: most of their songs tell the stories of real historical events, above all battles, set to thundering power metal with fists-in-the-air choruses and Brodén's big, gravelly bellow out front.
Primo Victoria, in 2005, laid out the blueprint with its title track. The Art of War followed in 2008 with "Ghost Division", a flat-out charge of a song. Then, in 2012, the rest of the band departed, leaving Brodén and Sundström to rebuild with Chris Rörland, guitarist Thobbe Englund and, soon after, drummer Hannes Van Dahl, and Heroes in 2014 showed the machine hadn't missed a beat, with "Resist and Bite" among its highlights.
Lineups kept shifting, with Tommy Johansson arriving on guitar in 2016, but Brodén and Sundström have been the constants throughout. By 2026 the band had eleven studio albums behind them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sabaton on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primo Victoria | 15 | #6 | – | – | |
| 2 | Ghost Division | 5 | #20 | – | – | |
| 3 | Resist and Bite | 2 | #53 | – | – | |
| 4 | Crossing the Rubicon | 1 | #71 | – | 2025 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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