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“Default” by Django Django
From the album Django Django (2012)
“Default” by Django Django appears on 14 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2012 and 2025. It was first released in 2012 on the album Django Django. Its best result is #8 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #80 alternative song of 2012 and #5,181 alternative song of all time.
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"Default" arrived in January 2012 from Django Django's self-titled album on Because Music, with the video following two days later, and it's a jittery, hiccuping rush of indie rock from the British band, with a chorus built to lodge in your head and stay there.
That chorus has had a busy afterlife. A snatch of it introduced a segment on the comedy series Russell Howard's Good News, and the song has turned up in a 2016 Ford ad for the carmaker's Unlearn campaign, in promos for the ninth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and in a commercial for the Google Pixel phone.
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 | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 87 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2012 | 103 |
| 2012 | 90 | 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS | 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2012 | 96 |
| 2012 | 68 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2012 | 103 |
| 2012 | 19 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2012 | 40 |
| 2012 | 15 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2012 | 89 |
| 2012 | 8 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012 | 89 |
| 2012 | 20 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
| 2012 | 28 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2012 | 100 |
| 2013 | 8 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2013 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 325 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2014 | 920 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2018 | 367 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2025 | 535 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 512 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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