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“Cecilia and the Satellite” by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

From the album Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness (2014)

“Cecilia and the Satellite” by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness appears on 19 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2014 and 2022. It was first released in 2014 on the album Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Its best result is #4 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #31 alternative song of 2014, #5,220 alternative song of all time and #200 of the '10s.

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"Cecilia and the Satellite" was the lead single from Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness's self-titled 2014 debut, released that August, and it's a love letter with a very specific address: McMahon wrote it for his daughter, Cecilia, with James Flannigan and Anders Grahn sharing the credit. It's big-hearted, wide-open pop built to be sung back at the stage.

Olivier Agostini's video, posted that December, shows a father paging through a book with baby Cecilia, cut with scenes of a young woman, presumably her grown up, wandering and swimming through the places in its pages, as if the infant were dreaming ahead. It became a top-ten hit on several US genre charts and even slipped briefly onto the Billboard Hot 100.

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	#	Station	Countdown	of
2014	74	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2014	91
2014	76	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2014	99
2014	21	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2014	88
2014	43	96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS	96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2014	96
2014	9	ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2014	51
2014	41	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2014	50
2014	45	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2014	129
2015	15	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2015	89
2015	4	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015	99
2015	63	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015	103
2015	48	Lightning 100 Nashville, TN	Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015	100
2015	7	92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015	50
2015	16	107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015	107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2019	91	ALT 98.7	ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade	98
2019	557	WYEP	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019	1017
2019	557	WYEP	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019	1099
2020	53	107.7 The End	The End Top 107 Songs of Last Decade (2010s)	107
2020	85	The Buzz	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade	99
2022	233	X96	X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time	500

Also listed as: Cecilia And The Satellite; Cecilia & The Satellite.

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