Song · Florence And The Machine
“Free” by Florence And The Machine
From the album Dance Fever (2022)
“Free” by Florence And The Machine appears on 13 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 2022 on the album Dance Fever. Its best result is #3 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #30 alternative song of 2022 and #183 of the '20s.
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"Free" was the fourth single from Dance Fever, Florence and the Machine's fifth album, in 2022, and it's an anxiety song that refuses to sit still. Florence Welch wrote and produced it with Jack Antonoff, and it was the last song she finished before the first COVID-19 lockdown; the words wrestle with anxiety and old trauma, while the music keeps moving as if motion itself were the cure.
Antonoff is close to a one-man band here, on drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitars, organ, mellotron, piano and bell, with Welch adding piano and percussion, Tom Moth on harp, Eric Byers on cello and Bobby Hawk on violin. Autumn de Wilde's video, shot in Kyiv, casts Bill Nighy as the living shape of Welch's anxiety, shadowing her from scene to scene.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 28 | Indie 102.3 Denver, CO | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2022 | 103 |
| 2022 | 3 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2022 | 106 |
| 2022 | 39 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2022 | 88 |
| 2022 | 71 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022 | 109 |
| 2022 | 6 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2022 | 88 |
| 2022 | 25 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 89 |
| 2022 | 23 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 11 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 91 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 132 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 621 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2026 | 226 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 252 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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