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“Stars” by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
From the album The Lion the Beast the Beat (2012)
“Stars” by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2012 and 2013. It was first released in 2012 on the album The Lion the Beast the Beat. Its best result is #21 on the WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #108 indie & aaa song of 2012.
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Grace Potter wrote "Stars" by herself, and in 2012 it followed "Never Go Back" as the second single from The Lion the Beast the Beat, the fourth studio album by Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, out on Hollywood Records with Jim Scott producing.
Critics warmed to it, picking it as one of the best songs on the record, and it kept going: 183,000 copies in the US by February 2013, and a gold certification from the RIAA in 2025. The deluxe edition adds a second take, reworked as alternative country and sung as a duet with Kenny Chesney. Philip Andelman, whose résumé includes videos for Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, directed the clip, which arrived that August.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 47 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012 | 101 |
| 2012 | 128 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
| 2013 | 21 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2013 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 319 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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