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“The Sound Of Winter” by Bush

From the album The Sea of Memories (2011)

“The Sound Of Winter” by Bush appears on 27 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 2011 and 2023. It was first released in 2011 on the album The Sea of Memories. Its best result is #2 on the KROQ Top 30 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #15 alternative song of 2011, #4,779 alternative song of all time and #45 of the '10s.

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#2best position
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4top 10 finishes
2011–2023years charted

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Bush - The Sound of Winter

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Bush picked "The Sound of Winter" as the second single from The Sea of Memories, their fifth album, and sent it out on 22 July 2011, one day after the band unveiled it on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It's alternative rock that knows exactly where the big chorus is hiding, the follow-up to "Afterlife" and the warm-up for "Baby Come Home".

Meiert Avis shot the video in Malibu across two August days, and it borrows its opening from Coldplay's "Yellow": Gavin Rossdale trudging along the sand on a chilly, overcast morning, singing through the first verse and chorus. Then the gloom lifts into a sun-soaked party of jam sessions, pool games and beach guitar, with Chris Traynor's wife and daughter in the crowd. The band kept pushing it into the fall, on Leno in September and on American Chopper Live in December, a broadcast that became the show's second-highest-rated episode.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 2 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 30 Songs of 2011 30
2011 10 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2011 91
2011 100 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 101
2011 25 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2011 89
2011 16 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 18 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2011 99
2011 27 KFMA Tucson, AZ KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 29 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 of 2011 97
2011 18 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME WCYY Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 53 89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA 89.7 The River Top 89 of 2011 89
2011 6 KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011 92
2011 13 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 94
2011 19 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2011 105
2011 16 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011 49
2011 18 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2011 94
2011 84 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ 98KUPD Top 98 of 2011 98
2011 38 90.5 WERG Erie, PA WERG Top 90 of 2011 90
2011 13 Rock 93.5 Columbia, SC Rock 93.5 WARQ Top 93 of 2011 92
2011 8 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011 98
2011 17 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 96
2012 38 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 50 Songs of 2012 50
2012 49 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2012 91
2012 33 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 Songs of 2012 97

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2014 344 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 365 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2019 85 103.3 The Edge 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade 103
2023 454 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500

Also listed as: The Sound of Winter.

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