Song · Lord Huron
“The Night We Met” by Lord Huron
From the album Strange Trails (2015)
“The Night We Met” by Lord Huron appears on 12 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2015 on the album Strange Trails. Its best result is #6 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #68 alternative song of 2017.
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"The Night We Met" comes from Strange Trails, Lord Huron's second studio album, from 2015, and it's a slow, swaying ache of a song. Frontman Ben Schneider wrote and produced it, Rick Parker mixed it, and it was recorded at Whispering Pines in Los Angeles. It rocks gently in a mixed meter, shifting between 9/8 and 12/8 at a crawl, which gives it the lilt of a lonely waltz drifting through an empty ballroom.
It had a long fuse. Once the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why used it, the song entered the charts in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and France, went eleven times platinum in America, and by January 2026 had passed 3.5 billion streams on Spotify.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 14 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 68 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
| 2018 | 6 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 101 | 102.7 WEQX | WEQX Top 102.7 of the 2010's Decade | 103 |
| 2022 | 12 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 511 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 89 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 725 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 206 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 171 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 698 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
| 2026 | 21 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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