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“Counting 5-4-3-2-1” by Thursday
From the album A City by the Light Divided (2006)
“Counting 5-4-3-2-1” by Thursday appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2006. It was first released in 2006 on the album A City by the Light Divided. Its best result is #63 on the Y100 Top 88.5 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #329 alternative song of 2006.
Thursday sent "Counting 5-4-3-2-1" to radio on April 11, 2006, the first single from A City by the Light Divided, the post-hardcore band's fourth album, on Island. It was an old song in new clothes: they'd first written it back in the Full Collapse days, and only after reworking it in a different key did it earn a place on the record.
Keyboardist Andrew Everding said it comes from being stuck and unhappy in the town you grew up in and wanting out as fast as you can. The video came from Artificial Army, one of the first treatments to arrive. The band had planned two clips, a cheap animated one and a second to tie into it, until they saw where the animation was headed; it became their first video to tell a story, with some performance footage cut in.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 63 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 88.5 Songs of 2006 | 89 |
| 2006 | 132 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2006 | 159 |
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