Rock Rips Top 50 of 2012 Pos Song Artist Peak Notes 1 I Have a Right Sonata Arctica 1 4 wks at #1 2 Resonate Journey 1 4 wks at #1 3 Renegade Daughtry 1 4 wks at #1 4 Coward Trillium 1 2 wks at #1 5 Darkside Gothminister 1 4 wks at #1 6 Fire and Ice Within Temptation 1 3 wks at #1 7 I Waited for You Valora 1 3 wks at #1 8 Kashmir Escala/Slash 1 1 wks at #1 9 Parasite November-7 1 1 wks at #1 10 Bully Shinedown 1 1 wks at #1 11 My Heart is Broken Evanescence 1 3 wks at #1 12 Whenever Nemesea 1 1 wk at #1 13 Afterlife Nemesea 1 2 wks at #1 14 What You Want Evanescence 1 2 wks at #1 15 Toccata and Fugue Ulytau 1 1 wks at #1 16 Trip the Darkness Lacuna Coil 1 2 wks at #1 17 Storytime Nightwish 1 2 wks at #1 18 Home Unsun 1 1 wk at #1 19 High Enough Nemesea/Charlotte Wessels 1 1 wk at #1 20 Comes and Goes Default 1 1 wk at #1 21 Angel November-7 1 1 wk at #1 22 Permanent Scar No Fixed Address 3 4 wks at #3 23 All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You Halestorm 1 1 wks at #1 24 Undefeated Def Leppard 1 1 wk at #1 25 In Control Nemesea 1 1 wks at #1 26 Emotune Delight 1 1 wk at #1 27 The Good Die Young The Scorpions & Tarja 1 1 wk at #1 28 Weightless Blood Rani Chatoorgoon with Ruud Jolie 1 1 wks at #1 29 The Catalyst SLOT/Linkin Park 1 1 wks at #1 30 The Bitch Came Back Theory of a Deadman 3 31 Finally Home Shaman 2 32 You Killed Me Krypteria 4 33 My Better Part Kingfisher Sky 4 34 I Miss the Misery Halestorm 3 35 Tonight Seether 4 36 Valentine Xandria 4 37 What About You? Ha Yehudim 3 38 Storm the Sorrow Epica 4 39 Binary Me Beyon-D-Lusion 4 40 Crawling Back to You Daughtry 5 41 Mon Ange Markize 4 42 Get Thru This Art of Dying 3 43 Canon Rock Krypteria 6 44 Enough (indifference) 5 45 Lost in You Three Days Grace 6 46 Immigrant Song Trent Reznor/Karen O. 6 47 Imperia Secret Passion 5 48 Kill the Light Lacuna Coil 6 49 Invincible Hedley/P. Reign 6 50 Sorry Art of Dying 7

The year 2012 may be remembered as the return of the male...well, perhaps not, but the top 3 of the year are male-only acts and 5 of the top 10. Part of this is due to the resurgence of bands such as Journey, and Daughtry; the continuing dominance of Shinedown; and excellent new work from bands like Sonata Arctica and Gothminister, among others. Within Temptation placed another song at #1, tying them for most #1s from a single album with Daughtry (5). However, Daughtry's record gave them 10 weeks at #1, while WT stayed atop for 16. Other bands who did well in 2012 include Evanescence, Nemesea, and November-7. 2012 may also be the year of the high debut, too, with 7 songs beginning their trek up the chart by landing in the top 10. There were several surprise #1s, too, like Journey's monster hit "Resonate" (#2 for the year); British all-female string quartet Escala teamed up with American guitar legend Slash on an instrumental cover of "Kashmir"; and Kazakh virtuosos Ulytau gave us a rousing cover of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue." Tarja earned her very first #1 in 2012, alongside The Scorpions, who broke the bad news that they were all retiring. By the end fo teh year, the musical landscape had changed further with Nightwish's "Imaginaerum" movie being released to accolades along with the soundtrack, and then having the band dump Anette Olzon as singer. After two more lead vocalists, chart faves Elis decided to pack it in, only to rise with 4 members of the band as "Zirkonium." Theory of a Deadman teamed up with former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi to make a hit out of the tune for the children's song "The Cat Came Back." And in perhaps the strangest development of the year, Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne became engaged. Question mark, question mark, W-T-F?

Chart facts: This year-end chart of the top 50 songs (of 129 charted) of 2011 is represented by hits from 16 countries (13 US, 10 Netherlands, 10 Canada, 4 Germany, 3 Finland, 2 UK, 2 Switzerland, 2 Poland, 2 France, 2 Italy; and 1 each from Russia, Brazil, Norway, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and Israel.). 8 artists have more than one entry: Nemesea is at #12, #13, #19 and #25; Daughtry is at #3 and #40; November-7 is at #9 and #21. Evanescence is at #11 and #14, Lacuna Coil is at #16 and #48, Halestorm is at #23 and #34, Krypteria is at #32 and #43, and Art of Dying is at #42 and #50. Other minutiae: 12 artists from last year's top 50 are back this year: Halestorm, Shinedown, SLOT, Default, Journey, Within Temptation, Evanescence, Nemesea, Delight, Tarja, Rani Chatoorgoon and Krypteria. There are 5 remakes: "Kashmir," "Toccata and Fugue," "All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You," "The Catalyst," and "Immigrant Song." There were 26 #1s and 1 #2. There are 7-multi-act entries: Slash with Escala; Nemesea with Charlotte Wessels; The Scorpions and Tarja; Rani Chatoorgoon and Ruud Jolie; SLOT with Linkin Park; Trent Reznor and Karen O; and Hedley with P. Reign. Four are multi-national collaborations. The lowest peaking song is "Sorry," which reached #7. 11 artists are here with their first charted hit. 3 are in our top 10. There is 1 foreign language song, 1 from a soundtrack, 1 song that's a question, 1 song from a Native band, and no Christian rock hits on our chart. Two songs feature artists who were on American Idol, 2 are instrumental, and 2 have band names with numbers in them. 39 songs have a female presence. Debuts in the top 10 include: "I Have a Right" (6); "Renegade" (6); "My heart is Broken" (7); "Trip the Darkness" (7); "I Waited for You" (8); and both "Bully" and "Fire and Ice" started their climbs at #10.