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“Hunger” by Florence And The Machine
From the album High as Hope (2018)
“Hunger” by Florence And The Machine appears on 13 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2018 and 2019. It was first released in 2018 on the album High as Hope. Its best result is #3 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #16 alternative song of 2018 and #478 of the '10s.
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"Hunger" arrived in May 2018 as the second single from High as Hope, Florence and the Machine's fourth album, and it finds Florence Welch turning the hardest years of her youth into something you can move to. She wrote it with Emile Haynie, Thomas Bartlett and Tobias Jesso Jr., and produced it with Haynie; the song draws on her teenage battles with an eating disorder and alcohol.
The music moves at a brisk, soulful clip, and the credits run deep: Bartlett on piano, organ and mellotron, Tom Moth on harp, Greg Leisz on pedal steel, Robert Ackroyd on guitar and Carla Azar on drums. Critics loved the gap between the confessional words and the radio-ready sheen, and it became the band's fifth number one on Billboard's Adult Alternative Songs chart. In Andrés González Rojas's video, Welch dances through an art museum.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 24 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 36 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 | 104 |
| 2018 | 24 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 39 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2018 | 107 |
| 2018 | 46 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2018 | 31 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 181 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018 | 200 |
| 2018 | 3 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2018 | 83 |
| 2018 | 34 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2018 | 103 |
| 2018 | 23 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2018 | 51 |
| 2018 | 82 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 717 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 717 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
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