Song · Maggie Rogers
“Alaska” by Maggie Rogers
From the EP Now That the Light Is Fading (2017)
“Alaska” by Maggie Rogers appears on 22 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2016 and 2026. It was first released in 2017 on the EP Now That the Light Is Fading. Its best result is #3 on the WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #319 alternative song of 2016.
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"Alaska" introduced Maggie Rogers in October 2016, when Debay Sounds and Capitol sent it out as the lead single from her EP Now That the Light Is Fading, and it arrived with an origin story that spread fast: Rogers played it for Pharrell Williams at a master class at her school, and his reaction went viral.
What he heard was a strange, lovely hybrid. Rogers wrote and produced it with Doug Schadt, and she has said the music tries to catch the meditative pull she gets from both hiking and dancing, one solitary and out in nature, the other loud and crowded, both of them a way of keeping her grounded. The track splits the difference beautifully: folk-singer phrasing over a light, skittering dance pulse, with a hiker's ear for the sounds of the outdoors.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 88 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016 | 101 |
| 2016 | 72 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2016 | 90 |
| 2016 | 64 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2016 | 88 |
| 2016 | 36 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016 | 104 |
| 2016 | 3 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2016 | 89 |
| 2016 | 64 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2016 | 100 |
| 2017 | 37 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 72 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 24 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2019 | 375 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 375 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 850 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 973 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2023 | 66 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 778 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 226 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 248 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 164 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 108 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 127 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 715 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
| 2026 | 110 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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