Artist · chart history
Sam Roberts Band
Band Montréal Canada
Sam Roberts Band formed in Montréal, Canada. Sam Roberts Band has 18 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Last Crusade”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Sam Roberts Band most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Sam Roberts Band are Montreal's reliable rock-and-roll engine, led by Sam Roberts, the singer-songwriter born in 1974 who first hit the Canadian charts in 2002 with his debut EP, The Inhuman Condition. Some records have gone out under his name alone and others as Sam Roberts Band, and the group, with Eric Fares, James Hall, Dave Nugent and Josh Trager alongside him, has fifteen Juno nominations and six wins to show for it, including Artist of the Year twice, in 2004 and 2009, and Album of the Year in 2004.
Collider, in 2011, is where the band cut loose. "I Feel You" rides a big, sticky groove, "Let It In" has a looser, sunnier swing, and "Without a Map" wanders just far enough off the path to keep things interesting. It's rock music with its sleeves rolled up and its heart on the dance floor.
Roberts kept busy outside the band, too, joining the Canadian group Anyway Gang, whose debut came out in 2019. The Adventures of Ben Blank arrived in 2023, with "Picture of Love" showing the band still knows how to write a warm, open-road chorus.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sam Roberts Band on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Last Crusade | 6 | #19 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | We're All In This Together | 4 | #53 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Without a Map | 2 | #21 | – | 2011 | |
| 4 | I Feel You | 1 | #20 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Detroit '67 | 1 | #463 | – | – | |
| 6 | If You Want It | 1 | #67 | – | 2017 | |
| 7 | Picture of Love | 1 | #18 | – | 2023 | |
| 8 | Let It In | 1 | #45 | – | 2012 | |
| 9 | Shapeshifters | 1 | #96 | – | 2014 |
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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