Artist · chart history
Saves the Day
Band Princeton United States Formed 1997
Saves the Day formed in 1997 in Princeton, United States. Saves the Day has 10 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2011. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “At Your Funeral”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #8. The station that charted Saves the Day most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Saves the Day started out in Princeton, New Jersey, as Sefler in 1994 before taking their new name in 1997, and Chris Conley has been the voice at the center of it ever since. Their debut, Can't Slow Down, came out on Equal Vision Records in 1998, and Through Being Cool followed a year later with their first single, "Shoulder to the Wheel", nervy, wiry pop-punk with a big emotional streak.
Stay What You Are, released on Vagrant in 2001, is where it all clicked. It sold 200,000 copies and put "At Your Funeral" and "Freakish" into rotation on MTV2. "At Your Funeral" is the classic: a bright, jangly tune under a title that promises something much darker, with Conley's high, boyish voice making the gloom sound sweet.
That success got them to DreamWorks, who released In Reverie in 2003, a moodier, more tangled record with "Anywhere With You" on board. But DreamWorks was swallowed up by Interscope, and the band was dropped just weeks after the album came out. They kept going on their own terms, with five more albums on Vagrant, Razor & Tie and Equal Vision, the most recent being 9 in 2018. Today Conley leads the band with Arun Bali, Rodrigo Palma and Claudio Rivera.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Saves the Day on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At Your Funeral | 6 | #8 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Anywhere With You | 2 | #37 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Nightngale | 1 | #44 | – | 2002 | |
| 4 | 1984 | 1 | #80 | – | 2011 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 80 | 1984 | WLCA Top 89 of 2011 |
| 2003 | 70 | Anywhere With You | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 |
| 2003 | 37 (tie) | Anywhere With You | WBER Listener Countdown 2003 |
| 2002 | 8 | At Your Funeral | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002 |
| 2002 | 44 (tie) | Nightngale | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 |
| 2001 | 106 | At Your Funeral | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 62 | At Your Funeral | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 43 | At Your Funeral | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 98 | At Your Funeral | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 27 | At Your Funeral | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 |
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