Artist · chart history
The Waking Eyes
Band Winnipeg Canada Active 2002–2010
The Waking Eyes formed in 2002 in Winnipeg, Canada and was active until 2010. The Waking Eyes has 7 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2009. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Watch Your Money”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted The Waking Eyes most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
The Waking Eyes rose out of the wreckage of two Manitoba bands, Steinbach's The Pets and Winnipeg's Novillero, and by 2002 they already had a full-length, Combing the Clouds, to their name. Rusty Matyas and Matt Peters were in the thick of it, and the band split its hometown loyalties between Winnipeg and Steinbach.
Video Sound, the 2004 follow-up on Warner Music Canada, is where the hooks got sharp. "Watch Your Money" struts out front with "Beginning" and "On A Train" close behind, a run of bright, wiry rock songs that earned the band a Western Canada Music Award in 2005 and a Juno nod for New Group of the Year (Alexisonfire walked off with it). The bass chair wobbled on the way: Russ Dufault quit just before the record landed, The Meligrove Band's Michael Small filled in on a brief tour and in the "Watch Your Money" clip, and Joey Penner finally took the job. Then came the road, across Canada, down into the States and over to Germany.
The band holed up in their Winnipeg jam space through most of 2006, writing and demoing, and cut the next record in a Winnipeg studio in May 2007. Holding On to Whatever It Is arrived in 2008 with "All Empires Fall", a weightier title for a band growing up in public. They called it quits in 2010.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Waking Eyes on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watch Your Money | 2 | #24 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | All Empires Fall | 2 | #88 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Beginning | 1 | #74 | – | 2005 | |
| 4 | On A Train | 2 | #88 | – | 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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 89 | All Empires Fall | 102.1 The Edge The Top 102 of 2009 |
| 2008 | 88 | All Empires Fall | 102.1 The Edge's Top 102 Songs of 2008 |
| 2005 | 74 | Beginning | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2005 |
| 2005 | 88 | On A Train | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2005 |
| 2005 | 88 | On A Train | CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of 2005 |
| 2004 | 24 | Watch Your Money | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 80 | Watch Your Money | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2004 |
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