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“Rumor Has It” by Adele

“Rumor Has It” by Adele appears on 28 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2011 and 2025. Its best result is #3 on the Lightning 100 Best of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #118 alternative song of 2011.

28countdowns
20stations
#3best position
0#1 finishes
8top 10 finishes
2011–2025years charted

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"Rumour Has It" sits on Adele's second album, 21, from 2011, a song she wrote with Ryan Tedder, who also produced it. The gossip-column title is a bit of a feint: Adele has said it was not aimed at the press but at her own friends, the ones who swallowed whatever the gossip pages printed about her.

It went out as the album's fourth UK single that November, though it had already crept onto the Billboard Hot 100 at number 16 before it was ever a single, and it went all the way to the top of the adult album alternative chart. Critics warmed to its hooks, its lyrics, Tedder's production and the force of Adele's voice. It later went 2× Platinum in the US, and she worked it into the set for her Adele Live tour.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 36 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2011 91
2011 17 WXPN Philadelphia, PA WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 100
2011 61 90.5 WERG Erie, PA WERG Top 90 of 2011 90
2011 18 93XRT Chicago, IL WXRT Listener Poll: Top 25 Songs of 2011 25
2011 10 Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY WEXT Top 97 of 2011 97
2011 4 KFOG San Francisco Bay Area, CA KFOG Foghead Favorites of 2011 50
2011 10 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011 104
2011 34 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 94
2011 25 WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011 93
2011 51 WFUV New York, NY WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011 90
2011 4 WTMD Baltimore, MD WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011 89
2011 3 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Best of 2011 50
2011 9 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 9 106.1 The Corner Charlottesville, VA 106.1 The Corner Top 107 of 2011 105
2011 5 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011 107
2011 53 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011 103

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2012 332 WYEP WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown 500
2013 128 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2016 170 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2018 285 WTMD WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 896
2019 1001 WYEP WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 1017
2019 1001 WYEP WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 1099
2020 2016 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2024 253 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 349 WXPN WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) 885
2025 338 The Current 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now 893
2025 255 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 166 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) 714

Also listed as: Rumour Has It.

Charting alongside it in 2011

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  2. 2RopeFoo Fighters
  3. 3The Adventures of Rain Dance MaggieRed Hot Chili Peppers
  4. 4WalkFoo Fighters
  5. 5You are a TouristDeath Cab for Cutie
  6. 6Rolling in the DeepAdele

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