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Cover of Ceremonials by Florence And The Machine
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“Shake It Out” by Florence And The Machine

From the album Ceremonials (2011)

“Shake It Out” by Florence And The Machine appears on 53 radio countdowns from 32 stations between 2011 and 2026. It was first released in 2011 on the album Ceremonials. Its best result is #3 on the WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #39 alternative song of 2011, #3,422 alternative song of all time and #53 of the '10s.

53countdowns
32stations
#3best position
0#1 finishes
7top 10 finishes
2011–2026years charted

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Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out

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"Shake It Out" went out in September 2011 as the first proper single from Ceremonials, the second Florence and the Machine album, and it sounds like a church service staged in a thunderstorm. Florence Welch wrote it with Paul Epworth in under an hour, by her account, as a way of shrugging off the regrets and the ghosts that had been hanging around her.

Epworth produced it and plays reed organ, and the arrangement piles on the gothic grandeur: pealing bells, rattling tambourines, Tom Moth's harp, Christopher Lloyd Hayden pounding the drums and a gospel choir of backing voices, Jessie Ware and Jack Peñate among them, lifting Welch higher on every chorus. Spike Stent mixed it. Critics loved her voice and its arms-in-the-air sweep, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Dawn Shadforth directed the video, a strange, stately English party.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 19 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 30 Songs of 2011 30
2011 67 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2011 91
2011 22 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 101
2011 59 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 80 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011 88
2011 56 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 94
2011 3 WTMD Baltimore, MD WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011 89
2011 56 106.1 The Corner Charlottesville, VA 106.1 The Corner Top 107 of 2011 105
2011 71 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2011 94
2011 10 KFOG San Francisco Bay Area, CA KFOG Foghead Favorites of 2011 50
2011 11 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011 103
2011 58 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 94
2011 28 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2011 111
2011 7 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011 107
2011 16 WXPN Philadelphia, PA WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 100
2011 34 KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011 92
2011 20 ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011 51
2011 53 WFUV New York, NY WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011 90
2011 15 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011 104
2011 13 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 100
2011 7 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 96
2012 32 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 50 Songs of 2012 50
2012 21 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2012 91
2012 32 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge Top 50 New Rock Songs of 2012 50
2012 60 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 Songs of 2012 97
2012 19 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2012 88
2012 10 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2012 50
2012 19 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2012 50
2012 9 ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2012 51
2012 9 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2012 131

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2013 1321 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 23 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 968 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2016 571 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2018 402 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs 892
2018 148 WTMD WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 896
2019 92 ALT 98.7 ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade 98
2019 99 103.3 The Edge 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade 103
2019 732 WYEP WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 1017
2019 732 WYEP WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 1099
2020 51 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s 102
2020 44 Triple J Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020) 100
2022 278 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2023 118 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909
2023 392 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2024 414 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049
2024 70 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 170 WXPN WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) 885
2025 661 The Current 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now 893
2025 53 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 567 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800
2025 60 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) 714
2026 338 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Also listed as: Shake it Out.

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