Artist · chart history
Simple Plan
Band Montréal Canada Formed 1999
Simple Plan formed in 1999 in Montréal, Canada. Simple Plan has 18 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I'm Just a Kid”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #17. The station that charted Simple Plan most often is 89X (Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Simple Plan came out of Montreal in 1999 with a skate-park grin and a chorus for every teenage grievance you ever had. Pierre Bouvier sings and plays guitar, Chuck Comeau drums, Jeff Stinco plays lead guitar and Sébastien Lefebvre handles rhythm guitar and backing vocals, and together they turned pop-punk into something shiny enough for the mall and loud enough for the pit.
No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls, in 2002, sets out the whole manifesto. "I'm Just a Kid" is a sulky shout-along turned into a party, "Addicted" and "I'd Do Anything" run on sugar-rush guitars, and "Perfect" slows it down for a heart-on-sleeve ballad. Still Not Getting Any... in 2004 stayed on course with "Welcome to My Life" and "Me Against the World", slightly heavier and a lot more earnest.
They were Warped Tour regulars, on the bill each summer from 1999 through 2005, and made cameos all over the pop culture of the time, turning up as themselves in the film New York Minute and playing the theme for What's New, Scooby-Doo?. They also played the closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and have kept releasing records, through Simple Plan, Get Your Heart On!, Taking One for the Team and Harder Than It Looks in 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Simple Plan on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I'm Just a Kid | 4 | #17 | – | 2002 | |
| 2 | Addicted | 4 | #26 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Me Against The World | 3 | #62 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | I'd Do Anything | 3 | #59 | – | 2002 | |
| 5 | Perfect | 2 | #62 | – | 2004 | |
| 6 | Welcome to My Life | 2 | #47 | – | 2004 |
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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