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“Everybody's Changing” by Keane

From the album Hopes and Fears (2004)

“Everybody's Changing” by Keane appears on 20 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2004 and 2025. It was first released in 2004 on the album Hopes and Fears. Its best result is #51 on the Virgin Radio Top 100 Brit Songs of All-Time (May 2005). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #150 alternative song of 2005 and #2,982 alternative song of all time.

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Keane's "Everybody's Changing" had to be released twice before Britain paid attention. The English band first put it out on the Fierce Panda label in May 2003, where it stalled at 122 on the UK chart. A year later, with "Somewhere Only We Know" opening doors, Island reissued it as the second single from their debut album, Hopes and Fears, and this time it shot to number four.

Tim Rice-Oxley wrote the lyric and shares the songwriting credit with Tom Chaplin and Richard Hughes, while Andy Green produced alongside the band and Mark "Spike" Stent handled the mix. It's pop with a lump in its throat, built to soar, and TV music supervisors noticed: it turned up in In Plain Sight, One Tree Hill and Scrubs. In 2006 The Sun even slotted it at 79 in a list of the greatest songs ever.

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
2005	70	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2005	100
2005	59	CD101 Columbus, OH	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2005	101
2005	54	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2005	230
2005	278	ModernRock.com Online	ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005	400

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2004	305	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	500
2005	319	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	500
2005	51	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 100 Brit Songs of All-Time (May 2005)	100
2006	169	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006)	500
2007	1606	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	1682	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	517	WYEP	WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade	913
2009	1704	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1740	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1815	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1870	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	1939	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2022	555	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s	907
2023	864	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time	909
2024	489	WXPN	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)	885
2025	417	WYEP	WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)	714

Also listed as: Everybodys Changing.

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