Album · Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
The Heist by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
The Heist is an album by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, released in 2012. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 24 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Thrift Shop”, on 14 lists and voted number one once.
The Heist, the first full studio album from Seattle duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, dropped on October 9, 2012, and the story is in how it got there: rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis made it entirely on their own, cutting it in Seattle between 2009 and 2012 and putting it out themselves with no major-label machine behind them. Only afterwards did they pay Warner's radio promotion team a small cut to push the singles.
Lewis builds the beats big and bright, horns and strings included, and Macklemore raps with a goofy grin one minute and dead seriousness the next. "Thrift Shop" went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, "Can't Hold Us" followed it to the top, and "Same Love" gave the record its slow, earnest centerpiece. It moved 78,000 copies straight out of the gate, entered the Billboard 200 at number two, took the Grammy for Best Rap Album and was nominated for Album of the Year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Heist on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thrift Shop | 14 | #1 | 1 | 2012–2025 | |
| 2 | Same Love | 8 | #2 | – | 2012–2025 | |
| 3 | Can't Hold Us | 2 | #15 | – | 2013–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.