Artist · chart history

Taproot

Band Ann Arbor United States Formed 1997

Taproot formed in 1997 in Ann Arbor, United States. Taproot has 37 chart appearances on 35 radio countdowns from 22 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2014. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Poem”, which appears on 22 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Taproot most often is WCCC The Rock (Hartford, CT), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.

37appearances

35countdowns

6songs charted

22stations

0#1 finishes

2000–2014years

Taproot came out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1997: Stephen Richards on lead vocals and guitar, Mike DeWolf on guitar, Phil Lipscomb on bass and Jarrod Montague on drums. They play alternative metal with a raw nerve, riffs that grind, and Richards swinging from a tender croon to a full-throated roar and back again.

A few independent releases got them signed to Atlantic in 1999, and Gift arrived in 2000 with "Again & Again" and "I". The real breakthrough was Welcome in 2002, led by "Poem", a brooding, slow-building anthem that climbed to 5 on the Mainstream Rock chart, with "Mine" as backup. Blue-Sky Research, in 2005, produced "Calling" but didn't match its predecessor, and Atlantic let them go in 2006.

They kept at it. Our Long Road Home came in 2008, after which Montague left and Nick Fredell took the drum stool, followed by Plead the Fifth and The Episodes. Dave Coughlin took over the drums in 2013 and Dave Lizzio replaced DeWolf in 2015, and for their seventh album, SC\SSRS, in 2023, Montague came back behind the kit with Taylor Roberts joining on guitar.

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

Songs by Taproot on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Poem	956	22	#19	–	2002
2	Calling	237	5	#19	–	2005
3	Again and Again	133	4	#41	–	2000
4	Mine	75	4	#70	–	2003
5	Fractured	36	1	#58	–	2010
6	I	27	1	#78	–	2001

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.

00 01 02 03 05 10

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2014	472	Poem	WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014)
2010	58	Fractured	89X Top 89 Songs of 2010
2010	37	Poem	WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade
2010	63	Poem	94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade
2005	77	Calling	89X Top 89 Songs of 2005
2005	59	Calling	CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2005
2005	19	Calling	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2005
2005	83	Calling	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2005
2005	77	Calling	ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005
2003	78	Mine	91X Top 91 Songs of 2003
2003	53	Poem	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003
2003	81	Mine	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003
2003	49	Poem	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003
2003	32	Poem	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003
2003	60	Poem	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003
2003	70	Mine	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003
2003	46	Poem	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 50 Songs of 2003
2003	22	Poem	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2003
2003	97	Mine	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2003
2002	85	Poem	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002
2002	68	Poem	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002
2002	52	Poem	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002
2002	69	Poem	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2002
2002	64	Poem	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2002
2002	48	Poem	89X Top 89 Songs of 2002
2002	93	Poem	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002
2002	19	Poem	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2002
2002	65	Poem	WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002
2002	75 (tie)	Poem	WBER Listener Countdown 2002
2002	87	Poem	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002
2002	89	Poem	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002
2002	25	Poem	KNAC Top 105 Songs of 2002
2001	78	I	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001
2000	83	Again and Again	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2000
2000	47	Again and Again	89X Top 89 Songs of 2000
2000	41	Again and Again	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2000
2000	99	Again and Again	103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000

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