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“Can I Believe You” by Fleet Foxes

From the album Shore (2020)

“Can I Believe You” by Fleet Foxes appears on 16 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2020 and 2026. It was first released in 2020 on the album Shore. Its best result is #6 on the WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #141 alternative song of 2020 and #376 of the '20s.

16countdowns

15stations

#6best position

0#1 finishes

1top 10 finishes

2020–2026years charted

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"Can I Believe You" landed with the rest of Shore, the fourth Fleet Foxes album, which Anti- Records put out on September 22, 2020, timed to the autumnal equinox and announced only a day ahead. Robin Pecknold wrote the words and the music, and the album around it was essentially a solo job: he made Shore without the rest of the band, producing it himself with engineer Beatriz Artola.

He started writing in September 2018 and recorded from September 2019 to September 2020, right through the pandemic, pulling in a crowd of collaborators and extra voices along the way. The result sounds brighter than anything Fleet Foxes had done before, an album Pecknold called a celebration of life in the face of death, and critics lined up behind it; it went on to a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2020	27	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2020	103
2020	29	The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2020	89
2020	33	WERS 88.9 Boston, MA	WERS Top 88 Songs of 2020	88
2020	20	WFUV New York, NY	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2020	90
2020	90	Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	WEXT Top 97 of 2020	97
2020	68	WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2020	104
2020	24	WTMD Baltimore, MD	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2020	89
2020	12	Indie 102.3 Denver, CO	Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2020	103
2020	6	107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2020	107
2020	55	WXPN Philadelphia, PA	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2020	100
2020	33	90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2020	90
2020	21	Lightning 100 Nashville, TN	Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2020	199
2021	55	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2021	91

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2022	789	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time	1055
2026	329	KXT	KXT 917 Song Countdown	917
2026	226	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound	1055

Also listed as: Can I Believe You?; Can I Believe In You.

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