Artist · chart history
Skid Row
Band Toms River United States Formed 1986 US hard rock / heavy metal band
Skid Row formed in 1986 in Toms River, United States. Skid Row has 123 chart appearances on 65 radio countdowns from 24 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “18 & Life”, which appears on 56 lists with a best position of #47. The station that charted Skid Row most often is 106.7 WLLZ (Detroit, MI), with 24 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Skid Row crawled out of Toms River, New Jersey, in 1986, and by the time Sebastian Bach took over the microphone in 1987 they had the look, the snarl and the hooks to go all the way. Dave "The Snake" Sabo and Scotti Hill cranked the twin guitars, Rachel Bolan played bass, and Rob Affuso pounded the drums behind Bach's air-raid siren of a voice.
The self-titled debut on Atlantic in 1989 was the one that did it: "Youth Gone Wild" was the fist-in-the-air opener to their story, "18 & Life" had grit under its fingernails, and "I Remember You" was the power ballad that softened up the rest of the world. Those last two both went top 10 on the Hot 100. Slave to the Grind went heavier in 1991 and still went all the way to number one on the Billboard 200, and by the end of 1996 their album sales had reached 20 million worldwide.
Then the wheels came off. Bach was fired and Affuso quit amid rising tensions, and after a three-year break the band came back in 1999 with Johnny Solinger singing. Thickskin, in 2003, gave the countdowns "Thick is the Skin", and Bolan, Sabo and Hill have kept the name rolling through a string of singers since.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Skid Row on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 & Life | 56 | #47 | – | – | |
| 2 | I Remember You | 44 | #86 | – | – | |
| 3 | Youth Gone Wild | 17 | #147 | – | – | |
| 4 | Eighteen and Life | 2 | #161 | – | – | |
| 5 | 18 to Life | 1 | #305 | – | – | |
| 6 | Piece of Me | 1 | #551 | – | – | |
| 7 | Big Guns | 1 | #711 | – | – | |
| 8 | Thick is the Skin | 1 | #92 | – | 2002 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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