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“Falling Slowly” by Glen Hansard with Markéta Irglová
From the album The Swell Season (2006) With Markéta Irglová
“Falling Slowly” by Glen Hansard with Markéta Irglová appears on 20 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2007 and 2026. It was first released in 2006 on the album The Swell Season. Its best result is #16 on the WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #226 alternative song of 2008.
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"Falling Slowly" belongs to Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová together: they wrote it while the film Once was being made, and director John Carney built his script around the songs they gave him. In the movie the pair play it in the Waltons Music shop in Dublin, Hansard on guitar and Irglová on piano.
It came out in 2006 in two forms, on The Swell Season, the album the two made together, and on The Cost by Hansard's band the Frames. The film followed in 2007, and the song walked off with the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards, not bad for a hushed indie folk song.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 24 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 26 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2008 | 136 |
| 2008 | 103 | 103.1 The River Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT | 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2008 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 16 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2009 | 85 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2009 | 168 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2012 | 326 | WYEP | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown | 500 |
| 2013 | 86 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2014 | 563 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) | 885 |
| 2016 | 162 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2019 | 30 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 30 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2020 | 1355 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 16 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2023 | 530 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 249 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 160 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 572 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 89 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 142 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
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