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“Amsterdam” by Guster

From the album Keep It Together (2003)

“Amsterdam” by Guster appears on 28 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2003 and 2025. It was first released in 2003 on the album Keep It Together. Its best result is #3 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #83 alternative song of 2003 and #3,285 alternative song of all time.

28countdowns
9stations
#3best position
0#1 finishes
2top 10 finishes
2003–2025years charted

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"Amsterdam" was the song Guster sent out first to announce Keep It Together, their fourth album, in 2003, and it turned into the biggest single they've had: it spent four weeks on top of Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart that August. It sometimes carries a subtitle too, "Amsterdam (Gonna Write You a Letter)".

Ron Aniello produced it and shares the music credit with Tony Goddess and the band, while the lyric belongs to Brian Rosenworcel. Mike Shipley mixed and Eric Seraphin engineered, and Reprise put it out. What they made is bright, springy college-rock pop with a chorus that practically begs to be shouted from a car window, the sound of a band that had figured out how to be catchy without getting cute about it.

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#StationCountdownof
2003 15 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 101
2003 33 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 99
2003 77 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2003 105
2003 3 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2003 196
2003 7 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003 103

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2003 1920 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1920 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1908 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1490 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1555 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 299 WYEP WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade 913
2009 1536 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2009 359 WYEP WYEP 913 Essential Songs 913
2009 322 WXPN WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) 885
2010 1567 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1493 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1538 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 226 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 1577 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2019 753 WYEP WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 1017
2019 753 WYEP WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 1099
2022 773 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907
2023 956 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2023 34 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places 800
2024 544 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 625 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049
2025 506 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) 714
2025 411 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800

Also listed as: Amsterdam (Gonna Write You a Letter); Amsterdam (Gonna Write You A Letter).

Charting alongside it in 2003

Best songs of 2003 →
  1. 1Seven Nation ArmyThe White Stripes
  2. 2Like a StoneAudioslave
  3. 3Bring Me to LifeEvanescence
  4. 4Somewhere I BelongLinkin Park
  5. 5Times Like TheseFoo Fighters
  6. 6Weak and PowerlessA Perfect Circle

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