Artist · chart history
Thursday
Band New Brunswick United States Formed 1997 New Jersey post‐hardcore
Thursday formed in 1997 in New Brunswick, United States. Thursday has 16 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2007. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Signals Over the Air”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #30. The station that charted Thursday most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Thursday came out of New Brunswick, New Jersey, with Geoff Rickly howling up front and a band that could lurch from a whisper to a full-throttle scream within a bar. Tom Keeley and, after original guitarist Bill Henderson left in 2000, Steve Pedulla wove the guitars; Tim Payne played bass and Tucker Rule drummed, with Andrew Everding adding keyboards later on. Their first album, Waiting, got them started, but 2001's Full Collapse is where they caught fire, and "Understanding in a Car Crash" is its battle cry, jagged, frantic and wounded all at once.
Island signed them, and War All the Time, their 2003 major-label debut, went straight into the Billboard 200 at number 7. "Signals Over the Air" is the sound of the band going wide-screen, bigger and darker, with Rickly's voice cracking open over guitars that surge and splinter. A City by the Light Divided followed in 2006, with the pounding "Counting 5-4-3-2-1".
After Common Existence and No Devolución they stopped in 2012, came back in 2016, split again in 2019, and returned once more for a Riot Fest set in 2021. In 2024 they released "Application for Release From the Dream", the band's first fresh material in 13 years. Their darker, screaming brand of emo helped shape a whole wave of post-hardcore bands.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Thursday on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Signals Over the Air | 8 | #30 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | Understanding in a Car Crash | 3 | #17 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Cross Out The Eyes | 1 | #21 | – | 2002 | |
| 4 | Counting 5-4-3-2-1 | 2 | #63 | – | 2006 | |
| 5 | Signals Over Air | 1 | #62 | – | 2003 | |
| 6 | At This Velocity (Audio Video Edit) | 1 | #112 | – | 2007 |
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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