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Sam Roberts
Solo artist Westmount Canada Canadian rock singer-songwriter
Sam Roberts is an artist from Westmount. Sam Roberts has 34 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Brother Down”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Sam Roberts most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 19 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Sam Roberts, born in 1974 and hailing from Westmount, arrived at the start of the 2000s sounding like the most confident rock songwriter Canada had turned up in years, a guy with a guitar, a voice and a gift for choruses that feel like they have always been on the radio. The EPs came first: The Skin, Sin, and Slander EP carried "Brother Down" and "Don't Walk Away Eileen", and The Inhuman Condition EP added "Where Have All the Good People Gone?", jangling, loose-limbed rock with a '60s swing in its hips.
We Were Born in a Flame, in 2003, turned the buzz into an album, with "Hard Road" leading the charge. Chemical City followed in 2006 with "The Gate", "Bridge to Nowhere" and "With a Bullet", and Love at the End of the World in 2008 brought "Them Kids", "Fixed to Ruin" and "Detroit '67". He records both under his own name and as Sam Roberts Band.
The Juno Awards have been generous: 15 nominations with his band and 6 wins, including Artist of the Year in 2004 and 2009 and Album of the Year in 2004. He has since joined the group Anyway Gang as well.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sam Roberts on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brother Down | 9 | #6 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | Hard Road | 4 | #15 | – | 2004 | |
| 3 | Where Have All The Good People Gone? | 4 | #7 | – | 2003 | |
| 4 | Them Kids | 5 | #6 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | The Gate | 2 | #12 | – | 2006 | |
| 6 | Bridge To Nowhere | 3 | #26 | – | 2006 | |
| 7 | Don't Walk Away Eileen | 3 | #25 | – | 2003 | |
| 8 | With a Bullet | 1 | #16 | – | 2007 | |
| 9 | Fixed to Ruin | 1 | #55 | – | 2009 | |
| 10 | The Last Crusade | 1 | #66 | – | 2011 | |
| 11 | Detroit '67 | 1 | #89 | – | 2008 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Sam Roberts as a guest.
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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