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“Norway” by Beach House
From the album Teen Dream (2010)
“Norway” by Beach House appears on 11 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2010 and 2025. It was first released in 2010 on the album Teen Dream. Its best result is #8 on the WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #608 alternative song of 2010.
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"Norway" was the lead single from Teen Dream, the third album by the dream pop duo Beach House, and they gave it away first as a free download on their website before the record came out in 2010. It began in 2008 on a train between Bergen and Oslo, when NRK Lydverket asked the duo to write a song out of whatever rolled past the window, mountains included: a travelogue set to a slow-motion swoon.
Victoria Legrand wrote the words and the music with Alex Scally; she sings and plays keyboard, he plays electric guitar, and Daniel Franz handles the drums. They cut it with the rest of Teen Dream in July 2009 at Dreamland in Hurley, New York, with Chris Coady engineering. Critics warmed to it, and a seven-inch followed in 2010 with "Baby" on the flip side.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2010 | 104 |
| 2010 | 43 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 94 Songs of 2010 | 93 |
| 2010 | 62 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2010 | 89 |
| 2010 | 81 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010 | 100 |
| 2010 | 53 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
| 2010 | 62 | Impact 89FM Lansing, MI | Impact 89FM Top 89 of 2010 | 88 |
| 2010 | 8 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2010 | 97 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 574 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2019 | 854 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 854 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2025 | 831 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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