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“Black Sun” by Death Cab for Cutie

From the album Kintsugi (2015)

“Black Sun” by Death Cab for Cutie appears on 19 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2015 and 2022. It was first released in 2015 on the album Kintsugi. Its best result is #4 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #7 alternative song of 2015, #7,605 alternative song of all time and #284 of the '10s.

19countdowns
17stations
#4best position
0#1 finishes
2top 10 finishes
2015–2022years charted

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"Black Sun" comes from Kintsugi, Death Cab for Cutie's 2015 album on Atlantic, and it's Ben Gibbard's song through and through, words and music. Rich Costey produced, recorded and mixed it, and the sound is darker and more muscular than the band's usual bedsit hush: a brooding, circling groove, glassy guitars and a mood of beauty turned sour, with Gibbard's voice cool and unsettled at the center of it.

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 32 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2015 91
2015 11 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2015 25
2015 45 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2015 89
2015 4 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015 103
2015 21 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 99
2015 55 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 107
2015 4 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2015 125
2015 69 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 103
2015 12 WERS 88.9 Boston, MA WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 88
2015 15 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 104
2015 60 The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN The Current Top 89 Songs of 2015 89
2015 12 WTMD Baltimore, MD WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2015 89
2015 27 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 50
2015 40 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2016 298 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2018 138 WTMD WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 896
2020 94 X96 X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade 100
2022 1128 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2022 491 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498

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