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Sum 41
Band Ajax Canada Active 1996–2025
Sum 41 formed in 1996 in Ajax, Canada and was active until 2025. Sum 41 has 192 chart appearances on 138 radio countdowns from 43 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Fat Lip”, which appears on 50 lists with a best position of #3. In total the artist has topped 2 countdowns. The station that charted Sum 41 most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 26 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Sum 41 came out of Ajax, Ontario, in 1996, a hyperactive young band that mixed pop-punk, skate punk and a love of heavy metal riffs into something loud, bratty and ridiculously catchy. Deryck Whibley sang and played rhythm guitar, Dave Baksh played lead guitar, Jason McCaslin joined on bass in 1999, and Steve Jocz played drums.
That same year they signed an international deal with Island Records, and the Half Hour of Power EP followed in 2000, with "Makes No Difference". All Killer No Filler landed in 2001, and "Fat Lip", a wisecracking, rapped-and-shouted blast, hit number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains their most successful single. "In Too Deep" and "Motivation" kept things rolling, and the album went platinum in the US and the UK and triple platinum in Canada.
Does This Look Infected? in 2002 was darker and heavier and did well with both critics and fans, with "The Hell Song" and "Still Waiting" both charting high on the modern rock charts. They won the Juno Award for Group of the Year in 2003. Chuck in 2004, led by "We're All to Blame" and "Pieces", peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200 and won the Juno for Rock Album of the Year in 2005. Underclass Hero in 2007 got a mixed reception but became their highest-charting album, and Screaming Bloody Murder in 2011 was also met with mixed reviews.
Baksh left in 2006 and came back in 2015, the year Frank Zummo took over the drums, and Tom Thacker joined on guitar in 2009. 13 Voices came out on Hopeless Records in 2016, Order in Decline on July 19, 2019, and their eighth and final album, Heaven :x: Hell, on March 29, 2024, with "Landmines". They often played more than 100 shows a year, and after one last world tour and an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, they called it quits in March 2025. On the countdowns, "Fat Lip" and "Pieces" are the ones that stuck.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sum 41 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fat Lip | 50 | #3 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Still Waiting | 30 | #2 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | In Too Deep | 25 | #24 | – | 2001 | |
| 4 | Pieces | 17 | #1 | 1 | 2005 | |
| 5 | The Hell Song | 14 | #33 | – | 2003 | |
| 6 | We're All To Blame | 14 | #14 | – | 2004 | |
| 7 | Landmines | 7 | #1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| 8 | Screaming Bloody Murder | 7 | #2 | – | 2011 | |
| 9 | Underclass Hero | 4 | #15 | – | 2007 | |
| 10 | Dopamine | 3 | #19 | – | 2025 | |
| 11 | Makes No Difference | 4 | #58 | – | 2000 | |
| 12 | Some Say | 2 | #46 | – | 2005 | |
| 13 | Over My Head | 1 | #46 | – | 2003 | |
| 14 | Baby You Don't Wanna Know | 1 | #56 | – | 2011 | |
| 15 | Motivation | 2 | #64 | – | 2002 | |
| 16 | Walking Disaster | 2 | #73 | – | 2007 | |
| 17 | Blood In My Eyes | 1 | #63 | – | 2011 | |
| 18 | What We're All About | 2 | #94 | – | 2002 | |
| 19 | Out For Blood | 1 | #81 | – | 2019 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Sum 41 as a guest.
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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