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Smile Empty Soul

Band United States Formed 1998

Smile Empty Soul formed in 1998 in the United States. Smile Empty Soul has 26 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2019. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Bottom of a Bottle”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Smile Empty Soul most often is WCCC The Rock (Hartford, CT), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.

26appearances

24countdowns

6songs charted

18stations

0#1 finishes

2003–2019years

Smile Empty Soul crawled out of Santa Clarita, California, as a no-frills power trio: Sean Danielsen out front on vocals and guitar, Ryan Martin on bass, Derek Gledhill on drums. Their self-titled debut arrived in 2003, and "Bottom of a Bottle" led the charge, a sore-throated alt-rock grinder of clenched verses and a chorus that lands like a fist on the bar. "Silhouettes" and "Nowhere Kids" came off the same record and kept the skies overcast and the guitars heavy.

Anxiety followed in 2005, the year Gledhill walked out, and Vultures came hard on its heels in 2006. Lava Records, Bieler Bros. Records and Pavement Music have all had a hand in putting the band's music out over the years.

Martin hung on until 2017, and after that Smile Empty Soul was, in every way that counts, Danielsen's band: the last founder standing, still writing the songs and still the one holding the microphone.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Smile Empty Soul on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Bottom of a Bottle	833	16	#10	–	2003
2	Silhouettes	176	5	#35	–	2004
3	Don't Ever Leave	38	1	#59	–	2009
4	Nowhere Kids	33	1	#72	–	2003
5	Don't Need You	25	2	#105	–	2005
6	The Hit	2	1	#105	–	2006

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.

03 04 05 06 09

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2019	468	Bottom of a Bottle	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019)
2015	451	Bottom of a Bottle	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015)
2014	418	Bottom of a Bottle	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014)
2009	59	Don't Ever Leave	WVBR Top 93 of 2009
2006	105	The Hit	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006
2005	105	Don't Need You	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2005
2005	309	Don't Need You	ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005
2005	326	Silhouettes	ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005
2004	35	Silhouettes	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2004
2004	64	Silhouettes	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2004
2004	80	Silhouettes	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004
2004	77	Silhouettes	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004
2003	62	Bottom of a Bottle	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003
2003	63	Bottom of a Bottle	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003
2003	31	Bottom of a Bottle	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2003
2003	26	Bottom of a Bottle	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003
2003	11	Bottom of a Bottle	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003
2003	19	Bottom of a Bottle	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003
2003	35	Bottom of a Bottle	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003
2003	10	Bottom of a Bottle	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003
2003	72	Nowhere Kids	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003
2003	24	Bottom of a Bottle	Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2003
2003	60	Bottom of a Bottle	WBCN Top 104 Songs of 2003
2003	80	Bottom of a Bottle	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003
2003	83	Bottom of a Bottle	KDGE Top 102 Songs of 2003
2003	18	Bottom of a Bottle	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2003

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