Song · Bat For Lashes
“Daniel” by Bat For Lashes
From the album Two Suns (2009)
“Daniel” by Bat For Lashes appears on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2009 on the album Two Suns. Its best result is #41 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #681 alternative song of 2009.
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"Daniel" was the first taste of Two Suns, the second Bat for Lashes album, arriving on Parlophone in 2009 as the record's lead single. Natasha Khan wrote it alone and handled nearly all the playing herself, handing only the bass lines to Yeasayer's Ira Wolf Tuton, while David Kosten produced it, as he did every track on the album. The result is a moony, heart-tugging pop song dressed in shadows.
On the single's sleeve, Khan poses with Daniel LaRusso, the Karate Kid character, painted across her back, and a LaRusso lookalike turns up at the end of the video. The seven-inch carried her cover of the Cure's 1980 single "A Forest" on the flip, and "Daniel" went on to become her best-selling single, with more than 46,000 copies sold worldwide.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 95 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2009 | 101 |
| 2009 | 82 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 104 Songs of 2009 | 104 |
| 2009 | 63 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 59 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009 | 100 |
| 2009 | 41 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 884 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2022 | 84 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2025 | 679 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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