Artist · chart history
White Reaper
Band Louisville United States Formed 2012
White Reaper formed in 2012 in Louisville, United States. White Reaper has 35 chart appearances on 31 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2015–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Might Be Right”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted White Reaper most often is 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2019.
White Reaper came barrelling out of Louisville, Kentucky, a garage punk band with Tony Esposito singing and playing guitar, Ryan Hater on keyboards, and Nick and Sam Wilkerson on drums and bass. White Reaper Does It Again in 2015 was fuzzed-out, sugar-rushed fun, with "Make Me Wanna Die" as scrappy and catchy as the title promises.
Then they cheekily named their next record The World's Best American Band in 2017 and set about trying to live up to it, trading some of the garage rattle for bigger riffs and a big, dumb grin. You Deserve Love arrived on October 18, 2019, their first album for a major label, and "Might Be Right" is the one that stuck: a glossy, keyboard-driven power-pop nugget that sounds like a lost classic-rock radio hit. "Real Long Time" ran with the same bright, bouncy idea.
Asking for a Ride came out on January 27, 2023, and "Pages" found them shaggier and louder again. In all they made five albums and two EPs, and they never forgot that rock and roll is supposed to be a good time.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by White Reaper on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Might Be Right | 15 | #3 | – | 2019 | |
| 2 | Pages | 9 | #9 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Real Long Time | 6 | #7 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Little Silver Cross | 1 | #19 | – | 2018 | |
| 5 | Honestly | 1 | #34 | – | 2025 | |
| 6 | Blink | 1 | #69 | – | 2025 | |
| 7 | Make Me Wanna Die | 1 | #82 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | The World's Best American Band | 1 | #103 | – | 2017 |
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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