Album · The Arcade Fire
WE by The Arcade Fire
WE is an album by The Arcade Fire, released in 2022. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Lightning I + II”, on 4 lists with a best position of #9.
WE, Arcade Fire's sixth album, came out on Columbia on May 6, 2022, and it borrows its title from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the 1924 Russian dystopian novel. Nigel Godrich produced it alongside Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, with sessions scattered from New Orleans to El Paso, Texas, to Mount Desert Island in Maine.
It's a record that thinks in wide-screen, all swelling crescendos and communal, arms-around-the-shoulders choruses, with Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara filling out the sound behind Butler and Chassagne. "The Lightning I + II" and "Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)" led the way as singles. Critics mostly warmed to it, it topped the album charts in Britain, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands, and it earned the Montreal band yet another Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from WE on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lightning I + II | 4 | #9 | – | 2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.