Artist · chart history
Taking Back Sunday
Band Rockville Centre United States Formed 1999
Taking Back Sunday formed in 1999 in Rockville Centre, United States. Taking Back Sunday has 85 chart appearances on 70 radio countdowns from 37 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “A Decade Under the Influence”, which appears on 18 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Taking Back Sunday most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 11 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Taking Back Sunday got going in New York in late 1999, when guitarist Eddie Reyes and bassist Jesse Lacey brought in a singer, a lead guitarist and a drummer. Lacey didn't stay long: he quit before the year was out and formed Brand New in 2000, sparking a very public feud. Adam Lazzara came in before the 2002 debut, Tell All Your Friends, and his hoarse, heart-on-sleeve yelp, tangled up with John Nolan's counter-vocals, made the band one of the most visible names of the early-2000s emo boom.
Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper left in 2003 to start Straylight Run, and Fred Mascherino stepped in on guitar and vocals for Where You Want to Be, which reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 in 2004 and carried "A Decade Under the Influence", all tense, twin-voice shouting and spiky guitars. Louder Now, in 2006, was the big one, peaking at number 2 on Billboard on the back of the snarling "MakeDamnSure" and "Liar (It Takes One to Know One)".
New Again followed in 2009, and in 2010 Nolan and Cooper came back in time for the self-titled album in 2011. The band has kept at it ever since, with its eighth studio album, 152, landing in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Taking Back Sunday on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Decade Under the Influence | 18 | #1 | 1 | 2004 | |
| 2 | MakeDamnSure | 13 | #11 | – | 2006 | |
| 3 | Sink Into Me | 17 | #8 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Liar (It Takes One to Know One) | 11 | #10 | – | 2006 | |
| 5 | This Photograph is Proof | 7 | #62 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | S'old | 4 | #42 | – | 2023 | |
| 7 | Cute Without the E | 2 | #50 | – | 2004 | |
| 8 | You Got Me | 2 | #29 | – | 2011 | |
| 9 | Faith (When I Let Her Down) | 1 | #10 | – | 2011 | |
| 10 | Great Romances Of The 20th Century | 1 | #34 | – | 2003 | |
| 11 | This Is All Now | 1 | #20 | – | 2011 | |
| 12 | Your Own Disaster | 1 | #65 | – | 2005 | |
| 13 | Faith (When I Let You Down) | 3 | #81 | – | 2011 | |
| 14 | Twenty Twenty Surgery | 1 | #52 | – | 2007 | |
| 15 | My Blue Heaven | 1 | #95 | – | 2007 | |
| 16 | You're So Last Summer | 1 | #85 | – | 2003 | |
| 17 | Faith | 1 | #88 | – | 2011 |
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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