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“Dreams” by Beck

Released 2015

“Dreams” by Beck appears on 31 radio countdowns from 24 stations between 2015 and 2026. It was first released in 2015. Its best result is #1 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2015, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #1 alternative song of 2015 and #144 of the '10s.

31countdowns
24stations
#1best position
2#1 finishes
9top 10 finishes
2015–2026years charted

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Beck dropped "Dreams" on June 15, 2015, and it turned out to be the first taste of Colors, his 13th album, which didn't arrive until 2017. After the hushed, muted Morning Phase (2014), this was a bright, funky jolt, and Beck said he wanted something that would be fun to play live.

He wrote it with Greg Kurstin and Andrew Wyatt, and Kurstin co-produced and did much of the heavy lifting, playing keyboards, bass, guitar and percussion beside Beck's guitar and vocal. The result bounces and shimmers like a sunlit dance floor. It landed in the FIFA 16 soundtrack, Rolling Stone ranked it 23rd among the year's best songs, and on alternative radio it climbed higher than anything Beck had put there since "E-Pro" in 2005.

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
2015 5 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2015 91
2015 4 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2015 25
2015 19 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2015 89
2015 10 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015 103
2015 20 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 99
2015 38 Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2015 50
2015 11 WTMD Baltimore, MD WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2015 89
2015 9 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 100
2015 5 The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN The Current Top 89 Songs of 2015 89
2015 23 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 50
2015 1 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2015 125
2015 20 WFUV New York, NY WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015 90
2015 1 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 107
2015 61 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2015 88
2015 6 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 103
2015 37 WERS 88.9 Boston, MA WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 88
2015 3 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 104

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2016 27 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2019 35 102.7 WEQX WEQX Top 102.7 of the 2010's Decade 103
2019 685 WYEP WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 1099
2019 685 WYEP WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 1017
2019 425 KEXP KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time 627
2020 80 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s 102
2020 90 X96 X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade 100
2022 938 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2024 54 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 389 WXPN WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) 885
2025 103 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 176 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) 714
2026 875 WYEP WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time 1180
2026 650 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound 1055

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