Song · Carly Rae Jepsen
“Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen
From the album Kiss (2012)
“Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2013 and 2025. It was first released in 2012 on the album Kiss. Its best result is #168 on the WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,963 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Before it turned up as the sugar rush on Carly Rae Jepsen's 2012 album Kiss, "Call Me Maybe" was a folk song. Jepsen wrote it with Tavish Crowe, and producer Josh Ramsay flipped it into a teen-pop, bubblegum and dance-pop sprint. It surfaced first in Canada on 604 Records in September 2011, fronting her Curiosity EP, before Schoolboy Records took it worldwide in 2012.
It's about the mortifying rush of love at first sight: she has just met someone and can only hope he calls back. Crowe is credited with bass, drums, guitar, keys and strings. Critics fell as hard as the public did: it topped the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop poll and drew a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance and another for Song of the Year, while more than 12 million sales made it 2012's best-selling single worldwide.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 731 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2024 | 405 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 291 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 168 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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