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“No Roots” by Alice Merton

Released 2017

“No Roots” by Alice Merton appears on 26 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2017. Its best result is #3 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #14 alternative song of 2017, #4,844 alternative song of all time and #204 of the '10s.

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17stations
#3best position
0#1 finishes
3top 10 finishes
2017–2026years charted

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"No Roots" was Alice Merton's first single, and the German-British-Canadian singer wrote it with Nicolas Rebscher, who produced it alongside her and mixed it. It came out in Europe on Paper Plane Records in December 2016 and only reached America through Mom + Pop in February 2018, by which time it had already cracked the top 10 in Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Poland and Israel.

It rides a strutting, rubbery bass line and a stomp you can clap along to, with Merton's big, husky voice doing the heavy lifting and sounding a little defiant about it. British radio caught up in 2018, Radio X putting it on its A-list while BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 played it too, and it went gold in the US and platinum in Germany and France.

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
2017 66 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 91
2017 16 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge's Top 20 Songs of 2017 20
2017 7 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2017 88
2017 13 WTMD Baltimore, MD WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2017 89
2017 20 WFUV New York, NY WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 90
2017 20 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2017 50
2017 6 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 103
2017 53 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO 90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2017 90
2017 66 WERS 88.9 Boston, MA WERS Top 88 Songs of 2017 88
2017 3 The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 89
2017 28 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 104
2017 132 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 200
2018 31 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 91
2018 15 ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2018 51
2018 15 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2018 33 WTMD WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 896
2019 92 103.3 The Edge 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade 103
2019 27 102.7 WEQX WEQX Top 102.7 of the 2010's Decade 103
2020 25 107.7 The End The End Top 107 Songs of Last Decade (2010s) 107
2020 77 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s 102
2022 309 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2023 847 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909
2025 453 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 420 The Current 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now 893
2026 362 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500
2026 62 KXT KXT 917 Song Countdown 917

Charting alongside it in 2017

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  3. 3The ManThe Killers
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  5. 5Everything NowThe Arcade Fire
  6. 6The Way You Used To DoQueens of the Stone Age

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