Song · Foals
“My Number” by Foals
From the album Holy Fire (2013)
“My Number” by Foals appears on 10 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2013 and 2019. It was first released in 2013 on the album Holy Fire. Its best result is #5 on the CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #24 alternative song of 2013, #5,734 alternative song of all time and #307 of the '10s.
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"My Number" was the second single from Foals' third album, Holy Fire, and the band gave it a proper coming-out: a live debut on Later... with Jools Holland on 13 November 2012, then the album version premiered on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show exactly a month later. The video followed in January 2013.
Flood and Alan Moulder produced and mixed it, and they keep it lean and bouncing. Yannis Philippakis and Jimmy Smith trade wiry, chopping electric guitar lines, Walter Gervers' bass does the strutting, Jack Bevan keeps a dance-floor pulse, and Edwin Congreave's keyboards fill the edges. It's the band's nervy twitch turned into straight-up pop, and it paid off: number 23 on the UK Singles Chart made it their highest-charting single yet, and their most successful worldwide.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 58 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2013 | 91 |
| 2013 | 5 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2013 | 103 |
| 2013 | 79 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2013 | 99 |
| 2013 | 13 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2013 | 88 |
| 2013 | 5 | Impact 89FM Lansing, MI | Impact 89FM Top 89 Songs of 2013 | 89 |
| 2013 | 83 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2013 | 103 |
| 2013 | 29 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2013 | 40 |
| 2013 | 29 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2013 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1228 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2019 | 587 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
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