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“Coming Of Age” by Foster The People

From the album Supermodel (2014)

“Coming Of Age” by Foster The People appears on 18 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2014 and 2025. It was first released in 2014 on the album Supermodel. Its best result is #8 on the Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2014. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #27 alternative song of 2014 and #409 of the '10s.

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#8best position

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1top 10 finishes

2014–2025years charted

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"Coming of Age" was the lead single from Supermodel, the second album by Foster the People, reaching American listeners in January 2014 and British ones that March. Mark Foster wrote it with producer Paul Epworth and close collaborators Sean Cimino and Isom Innis, and he sings and plays guitar, piano, harpsichord and synthesizer, with Cubbie Fink on bass, Mark Pontius on percussion, Cimino on acoustic guitar and effects and Innis and Epworth on more synths. Rich Costey mixed.

Foster has described it as close to a confession: after two years of touring had turned his life upside down, a stretch at home gave him the calm to look back at what had happened with his friends, the people he loved and himself. It is, in his words, a song about growing up, and the bright indie pop hides a clear-eyed reckoning.

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
2014	38	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2014	91
2014	37	CD101 Columbus, OH	CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2014	103
2014	27	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2014	99
2014	45	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2014	50
2014	102	WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2014	104
2014	38	WTMD Baltimore, MD	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2014	89
2014	8	Lightning 100 Nashville, TN	Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2014	100
2014	36	92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN	WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2014	50
2014	49	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2014	129
2014	87	107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2014	107
2014	28	94.3 WCYY Portland, ME	WCYY Top 50 CYY Songs of 2014	50
2014	111	WXPN Philadelphia, PA	WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014	200
2014	65	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2014	103
2014	48	ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2014	51

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2018	560	WTMD	WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018	896
2019	886	WYEP	WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019	1017
2019	886	WYEP	WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019	1099
2025	618	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century	909

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