Song · Ana Tijoux
“1977” by Ana Tijoux
From the album 1977 (2009)
“1977” by Ana Tijoux appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2010 and 2022. It was first released in 2009 on the album 1977. Its best result is #3 on the WRSI Top 94 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #163 indie & aaa song of 2010 and #8,472 indie & aaa song of all time.
Ana Tijoux named her second solo album, 1977, after the year she was born, and its title track is the sound of a rapper arriving on her own terms. La Oveja Negra released the album in Chile in 2009 before Nacional Records put it out as well; Tijoux wrote the words and Foex built the music.
After years of sharing the mic with her group and lending her voice to poppier collaborations, she made the record a homecoming to hip-hop, a salute to the genre's golden age that is largely drawn from her own life and trades much of her old singing for direct rapping. The single went on to a busy life on screen, turning up in Breaking Bad and Broad City and in the FIFA 11 and FIFA 23 video games, and the album earned a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 94 Songs of 2010 | 93 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 486 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
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