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Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest is an album by Grizzly Bear, released in 2009. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 32 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Two Weeks”, on 26 lists with a best position of #5.
Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear's third album, came out on Warp on May 26, 2009, and takes its name from a small island in Dukes County, Massachusetts. Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor produced it, and the Brooklyn band sounds like four equals leaning into each other: Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen trading lead vocals, everybody piling on the harmonies, and Christopher Bear's drums and percussion keeping the chamber-pop swirl from floating off.
"Two Weeks" went out ahead of the album and did the heavy lifting, a sunny, bobbing tune wrapped in stacked voices. The record entered the Billboard 200 at 8 with 33,000 copies in its first week, had sold around 220,000 in the US by 2012, and picked up an independent gold award for European sales in 2010. It widened their audience considerably, and "While You Wait for the Others" showed how strange and lovely they could get.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Veckatimest on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two Weeks | 26 | #5 | – | 2009–2026 | |
| 2 | While You Wait for the Others | 5 | #17 | – | 2009–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.