Artist · chart history
SR-71
Band Baltimore United States Active 1998–2009
SR-71 formed in 1998 in Baltimore, United States and was active until 2009. SR-71 has 25 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2020. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Right Now”, which appears on 19 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted SR-71 most often is WHFS (Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
SR-71 came roaring out of Baltimore in 1998, a pop-punk outfit named after the Air Force's supersonic Blackbird spy plane and built around one fixed point: singer and rhythm guitarist Mitch Allan. Before settling on the jet, the band had already worn two other names, Honor Among Thieves and Radiostar, and the lineup kept shifting after that too, with John Allen, Pat DeMent, Mike Ruocco, Dan Garvin and Jeff Reid all passing through. Allan was the one constant.
Now You See Inside, in 2000, delivered "Right Now", a jittery, sugar-rushed blast of power chords and gang shouts, with the sneering "Politically Correct" riding shotgun. Tomorrow followed in 2002, and its title track carried the same bright, bratty energy with a little more heart on its sleeve.
The band also wrote "1985", which Bowling for Soup turned into a hit in 2004 after SR-71 had already put it out on their own album Here We Go Again. The band signed off in 2009.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by SR-71 on radio countdowns
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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