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“Satellite” by Guster

From the album Ganging Up on the Sun (2006)

“Satellite” by Guster appears on 28 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2006 and 2025. It was first released in 2006 on the album Ganging Up on the Sun. Its best result is #23 on the WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #119 alternative song of 2006 and #1,961 alternative song of all time.

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#23best position
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2006–2025years charted

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Guster pulled "Satellite" off Ganging Up on the Sun in 2006 as the follow-up single, a warm, wistful indie-rock song with Jason Lehning's piano and a harmonica line from Jim Hoke drifting through it. The band produced it with Joe Pisapia, who shares the writing with Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner and Brian Rosenworcel, and Ben Grosse mixed it.

Alternative radio got behind it even though it never cracked the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and it kept finding listeners anyway: a Satellite EP followed in April 2007, the song turned up in the film Martian Child, and Adam Bizanski directed a stop-motion video for it. In 2018 it became the band's first gold record.

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
2006 56 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2006 101
2006 81 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2006 100
2006 88 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2006 101
2006 57 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 88.5 Songs of 2006 89
2006 58 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2006 103
2007 23 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2007 100
2007 72 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2007 107
2007 53 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2007 101

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2007 692 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 782 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 380 WYEP WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade 913
2009 743 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 709 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 656 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 617 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 361 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 598 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2018 872 WTMD WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 896
2019 154 WYEP WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 1017
2019 154 WYEP WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 1099
2022 446 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907
2022 599 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time 1055
2022 1344 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2024 138 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 802 WXPN WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) 885
2025 431 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 277 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) 714
2025 225 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800

Charting alongside it in 2006

Best songs of 2006 →
  1. 1Dani CaliforniaRed Hot Chili Peppers
  2. 2When You Were YoungThe Killers
  3. 3Steady, As She GoesThe Raconteurs
  4. 4Miss MurderAFI
  5. 5CrazyGnarls Barkley
  6. 6VicariousTool

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