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“Walk” by Foo Fighters

From the album Wasting Light (2011)

“Walk” by Foo Fighters appears on 54 radio countdowns from 41 stations between 2011 and 2025. It was first released in 2011 on the album Wasting Light. Its best result is #1 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2011, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #3 alternative song of 2011, #2,279 alternative song of all time and #6 of the '10s.

54countdowns
41stations
#1best position
2#1 finishes
16top 10 finishes
2011–2025years charted

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"Walk" was the third single from Wasting Light, Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, and it went out to rock radio in 2011 as a download-only single. Dave Grohl has said part of the lyric came to him while he was helping his first daughter learn to walk, until she managed it on her own. Butch Vig produced, Alan Moulder mixed and James Brown engineered, and Grohl sings lead while three guitars, his, Chris Shiflett's and Pat Smear's, pile up over Nate Mendel's bass and Taylor Hawkins' drums, with Rami Jaffee on organ.

That July it knocked the album's previous single, "Rope", off the top of Billboard's Rock Songs chart, their third number one there, more than anyone else had managed at that point, and at the Grammys in February 2012 it won Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song.

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

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 5 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 30 Songs of 2011 30
2011 46 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2011 91
2011 30 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 101
2011 31 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2011 89
2011 31 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 4 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 7 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2011 99
2011 8 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 of 2011 97
2011 4 103.1 The River Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2011 103
2011 14 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 94
2011 9 Rock 93.5 Columbia, SC Rock 93.5 WARQ Top 93 of 2011 92
2011 1 Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2011 40
2011 56 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2011 111
2011 34 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011 107
2011 12 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2011 94
2011 45 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011 103
2011 10 KFMA Tucson, AZ KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 94 WXPN Philadelphia, PA WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 100
2011 66 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ 98KUPD Top 98 of 2011 98
2011 15 90.5 WERG Erie, PA WERG Top 90 of 2011 90
2011 10 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011 88
2011 22 93XRT Chicago, IL WXRT Listener Poll: Top 25 Songs of 2011 25
2011 2 X107.5 Las Vegas, NV X107.5 Top 50 Songs That Didn't Suck 2011 50
2011 3 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011 98
2011 46 89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA 89.7 The River Top 89 of 2011 89
2011 4 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME WCYY Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 8 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 94
2011 2 KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011 92
2011 22 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011 49
2011 7 ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011 51
2011 24 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2011 105
2011 11 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 96
2012 20 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 50 Songs of 2012 50
2012 25 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 Songs of 2012 97

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 1727 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 994 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 134 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 859 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2014 210 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 212 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2019 50 ALT 98.7 ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade 98
2019 42 103.3 The Edge 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade 103
2019 56 93X 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) 93
2019 175 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 63 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s 102
2020 59 The Buzz The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade 99
2020 76 X96 X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade 100
2020 394 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2021 1 KISW KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from the '10s 25
2023 236 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500
2024 866 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 335 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2024) 400
2025 497 The Current 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now 893
2025 485 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909

Charting alongside it in 2011

Best songs of 2011 →
  1. 1Pumped up KicksFoster The People
  2. 2RopeFoo Fighters
  3. 3The Adventures of Rain Dance MaggieRed Hot Chili Peppers
  4. 5You are a TouristDeath Cab for Cutie
  5. 6Rolling in the DeepAdele
  6. 7Howlin' for YouThe Black Keys

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