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Fleet Foxes
Band Seattle United States Formed 2006
Fleet Foxes formed in 2006 in Seattle, United States. Fleet Foxes has 128 chart appearances on 78 radio countdowns from 31 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Helplessness Blues”, which appears on 27 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Fleet Foxes most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 28 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Fleet Foxes came out of Seattle in 2006 with harmonies that sound like they were recorded in a church built out of pine trees. Robin Pecknold leads the band, sings and writes most of the songs, and he and guitarist Skyler Skjelset have been the only constants; Casey Wescott on keyboards, Christian Wargo on bass and guitar, and later Morgan Henderson on double bass, woodwinds and violin fill out the sound, with Josh Tillman behind the drums from 2008 to 2012.
In 2008 Sub Pop put out the Sun Giant EP and the self-titled debut album, and critics swooned. You can hear why in "White Winter Hymnal", which stacks voice on voice until it glows, and in the rustic gallop of "Mykonos", "Ragged Wood" and "Blue Ridge Mountains". This is folk rock with the reverb turned up to cathedral size.
Helplessness Blues, in 2011, went broader and more searching, with the title track, "Grown Ocean" and "Montezuma", and became their biggest seller, reaching number 4 on the Billboard 200 and a Grammy nod for Best Folk Album. After a break, the band reconvened for Crack-Up in 2017, home of "Fool's Errand" and "Third of May/Odaigahara". Shore, in 2020, was effectively a Pecknold solo record, and "Can I Believe You" proved the old magic still worked.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Fleet Foxes on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helplessness Blues | 27 | #5 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Mykonos | 23 | #9 | – | 2009 | |
| 3 | White Winter Hymnal | 26 | #9 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Can I Believe You | 16 | #6 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Blue Ridge Mountains | 6 | #65 | – | 2009 | |
| 6 | Ragged Wood | 4 | #6 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | He Doesn't Know Why | 4 | #143 | – | – | |
| 8 | Grown Ocean | 5 | #49 | – | 2011 | |
| 9 | Fool's Errand | 3 | #27 | – | 2017 | |
| 10 | Sunblind | 3 | #29 | – | 2021 | |
| 11 | Your Protector | 1 | #21 | – | 2008 | |
| 12 | Lorelai | 2 | #50 | – | 2011 | |
| 13 | Third of May/Odaigahara | 2 | #48 | – | 2017 | |
| 14 | Bedouin Dress | 1 | #58 | – | 2011 | |
| 15 | Montezuma | 1 | #562 | – | – | |
| 16 | Third of May | 2 | #80 | – | 2017 | |
| 17 | Tiger Mountain Peasant Song | 2 | #751 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Fleet Foxes as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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