Song · Beirut
“Santa Fe” by Beirut
From the album The Rip Tide (2011)
“Santa Fe” by Beirut appears on 14 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2011 and 2025. It was first released in 2011 on the album The Rip Tide. Its best result is #24 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #678 alternative song of 2011.
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"Santa Fe" rides in on Beirut's The Rip Tide, released in August 2011, and it's Zach Condon's song through and through. He wrote it, sings it, produced and mixed it with Griffin Rodriguez, and plays a small warehouse of instruments on it: piano, organ, bass pedals, percussion and his trumpet.
Around him, Perrin Cloutier works the accordion, Farfisa and Wurlitzer electric piano, Paul Collins plays bass and Nick Petree adds percussion. It's a bright, bustling little procession of a song, every corner stuffed with color.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 36 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011 | 93 |
| 2011 | 40 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011 | 89 |
| 2011 | 69 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011 | 107 |
| 2011 | 40 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011 | 90 |
| 2011 | 24 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 | 100 |
| 2011 | 89 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 336 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2018 | 353 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2019 | 481 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2019 | 522 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 522 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2023 | 141 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 206 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 540 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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