Artist · chart history

The Calling

Band Los Angeles United States Formed 1996 US rock band

The Calling formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, United States. The Calling has 10 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2006. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Wherever You Will Go”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted The Calling most often is Virgin Radio (United Kingdom), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.

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2001–2006years

The Calling came out of Los Angeles as the vehicle for singer and guitarist Alex Band, who started the group with guitarist Aaron Kamin. They had one song that swallowed everything else: "Wherever You Will Go", the 2001 single that ran ahead of their debut album, Camino Palmero. It's a big, earnest power ballad, Band's husky voice straining over chiming guitars, built for slow-dance endings and closing credits, and adult pop radio played it to death, keeping it at the top of Billboard's Adult Top 40 for 23 weeks. Critics were far less charmed by the song and the album alike.

The second album, Two, arrived in 2004 with "Our Lives", which got a spot in the closing ceremonies of that summer's Olympics and later opened an Academy Awards telecast. It couldn't hold the band together, and they split the year after. Band later revived the name, the lineup turning over again and again with him as the one constant, but on the countdowns it all comes down to that one song.

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

Songs by The Calling on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Wherever You Will Go	427	10	#7	–	2001

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

2001Camino Palmero1 charting song

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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Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2006	208	Wherever You Will Go	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006)
2005	321	Wherever You Will Go	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2003	55	Wherever You Will Go	Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003)
2002	38	Wherever You Will Go	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002
2001	101	Wherever You Will Go	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
2001	7	Wherever You Will Go	Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 2001
2001	20	Wherever You Will Go	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001
2001	44	Wherever You Will Go	97X Top 97 Songs of 2001
2001	92	Wherever You Will Go	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001
2001	70	Wherever You Will Go	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001

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