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“Broken” by LovelyTheBand
From the EP everything i could never say… (2017)
“Broken” by LovelyTheBand appears on 20 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2017 on the EP everything i could never say…. Its best result is #1 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #1 alternative song of 2018, #2,647 alternative song of all time and #108 of the '10s.
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"Broken" was LovelyTheBand's debut single, a 2017 calling card that turned up on their EP everything i could never say… and was later folded into the debut album Finding It Hard to Smile in 2018. Mitchy Collins, Sam DeRosa and Christian Medice wrote it, and Medice produced it with Charlie Park, who also did the mix.
It's synth-pop with a sunburned indie grin: glossy keyboards, a bounce you can't argue with and a gang of background voices (Collins, Jordan Greenwald, Medice and Sam Price) piling onto the hook. It was the breakout. The song reached 29 on the Hot 100, sat atop Billboard's Alternative Songs chart for nine weeks, and stayed on that chart for 76 weeks, a record until All Time Low's "Monsters" outlasted it. In 2023 Billboard ranked it the second most successful song in that chart's history.
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 | 30 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
| 2018 | 4 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 1 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 4 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2018 | 51 |
| 2018 | 30 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 | 104 |
| 2018 | 19 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2018 | 107 |
| 2018 | 2 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2019 | 13 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
| 2020 | 19 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 93 Songs of 2020 | 93 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 20 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
| 2019 | 10 | ALT 98.7 | ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade | 98 |
| 2019 | 277 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 11 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 107 Songs of Last Decade (2010s) | 107 |
| 2020 | 54 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s | 102 |
| 2020 | 71 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2020 | 16 | X96 | X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade | 100 |
| 2020 | 161 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2021 | 93 | 107.7 The End | The End Obligatory Top 100 Alternative Songs of All Time (2021) | 100 |
| 2022 | 96 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2026 | 41 | 101X | 101X 500 (2026) | 500 |
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