Song · Lumineers
“Angela” by Lumineers
From the album Cleopatra (2016)
“Angela” by Lumineers appears on 17 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2016 on the album Cleopatra. Its best result is #2 on the WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #26 alternative song of 2017 and #466 of the '10s.
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"Angela" came out on April 1, 2016, the third single from Cleopatra, the Lumineers' second album, and it's a portrait of a small-town woman who has made good and still can't shake where she came from. The name belongs to one of Wesley Schultz's exes, someone he has admitted keeps surfacing in his songs.
Producer Simone Felice, who wrote it with Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, keeps the folk-rock frame spare: Schultz's guitar and voice up front, Fraites on piano and drums, Neyla Pekarek's cello and vocals adding a mournful grain. Ryan Hewitt engineered and mixed it. Its video later became one chapter of The Ballad of Cleopatra, a compilation that stitched the clips for "Ophelia", "Cleopatra", "Sleep on the Floor", "Angela" and "My Eyes" into a single story.
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 | 20 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 12 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | 102.1 The Edge's Top 20 Songs of 2017 | 20 |
| 2017 | 46 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 17 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 11 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
| 2017 | 46 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2017 | 6 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 4 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 2 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2018 | 44 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 228 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 228 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 96 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2024 | 259 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 687 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2026 | 327 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 335 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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