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“Little Numbers” by Boy
“Little Numbers” by Boy appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2013 and 2025. Its best result is #40 on the WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #92 indie & aaa song of 2013 and #7,638 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Little Numbers" was the debut single from Boy, the Swiss-German pop duo of Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass, released in August 2011 from their first album, Mutual Friends. The two wrote it themselves and Philipp Steinke produced, and it's a brisk, folk-tinged indie-pop song that runs on little more than drums and piano. The lyric is all anticipation: someone waiting on a call from the person they're falling for, killing the hours with daydreams.
It traveled well. A Lufthansa business-class commercial in 2012 made it a favorite across German-speaking Europe, it served as the theme for the German comedy film No Sex Is No Option and the TV series Knallerfrauen, and it later turned up in the American film How to Be Single. In Japan it climbed to number 4 on the Hot 100.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 69 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2013 | 101 |
| 2013 | 40 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2013 | 50 |
| 2013 | 63 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2013 | 107 |
| 2013 | 157 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 790 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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