Artist · chart history
Straylight Run
Band Baldwin United States Active 2003–2010 United States emo
Straylight Run formed in 2003 in Baldwin, United States and was active until 2010. Straylight Run has 8 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2007. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Existentialism On Prom Night”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #20. The station that charted Straylight Run most often is CRNC 90.1 (Niagara / Toronto, ON), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
Straylight Run was what happened when John Nolan and Shaun Cooper walked out of Taking Back Sunday in 2003 and went looking for quieter, stranger rooms. Working out of Baldwin, New York, with Nolan on guitar, piano and lead vocals, Cooper on bass, and Michelle DaRosa and Will Noon alongside, they built their songs around piano, hush and a slow-building ache that emo rarely had the patience for.
The 2003 demo carried "Existentialism on Prom Night", a hushed, piano-led confessional that sounds like a school dance seen through a rain-streaked window. A self-titled album followed, then The Needles the Space in 2007, with the jittery "Soon, We'll Be Living in the Future", plus three EPs along the way: Prepare to Be Wrong, Un Mas Dos and About Time.
In 2010 money trouble forced an indefinite hiatus, and before long Nolan and Cooper were back in Taking Back Sunday, which gives the whole Straylight Run story the feel of a long, lovely detour.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Straylight Run on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Existentialism On Prom Night | 5 | #20 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | Existentialism on Pro | 1 | #11 | – | 2005 | |
| 3 | Soon, We'll Be Living in the Future | 1 | #74 | – | 2007 | |
| 4 | Big Shot (Hands in th | 1 | #68 | – | 2005 |
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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