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“I've Got Friends” by Manchester Orchestra

From the album Mean Everything to Nothing (2009)

“I've Got Friends” by Manchester Orchestra appears on 20 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2009 and 2010. It was first released in 2009 on the album Mean Everything to Nothing. Its best result is #9 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 2009 and #316 of the '00s.

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Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends (Official Video)

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"I've Got Friends" is the song that hauled Manchester Orchestra out of the indie trenches in 2009: the lead single from their second album, Mean Everything to Nothing, and the first of their songs ever to show up on a chart. Andy Hull wrote it, words and music.

It rose to No. 8 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart that summer and stood as the band's lone top-10 hit until "The Gold" went all the way to No. 1 on the Adult Alternative Songs chart in 2017. Meanwhile it kept finding side doors into the culture, turning up on the soundtracks of the video games MLB 11: The Show and Dirt 3 and on The Vampire Diaries.

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
2009	36	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2009	101
2009	32	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2009	101
2009	55	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2009	89
2009	9	CD101 Columbus, OH	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2009	101
2009	74	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2009	99
2009	41	FM 102/1 Milwaukee, WI	FM 102/1 Top 50 of 2009	50
2009	30	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2009	106
2009	89	WTMD Baltimore, MD	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2009	89
2009	20	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2009	88
2009	48	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2009	50
2009	36	94.3 WCYY Portland, ME	WCYY Top 50 of 2009	50
2009	46	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2009	103
2009	57	X103.9 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA	X103.9 Top Songs of 2009	103
2009	24	90.5 WERG Erie, PA	WERG Top 90 of 2009	90
2009	23	105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO	105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2009	105
2009	51	99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2009	99
2009	73	KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA	KSLG Top 94 of 2009	94
2009	91	Triple J Australia (national)	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2009	100
2009	15	WBRU Providence, RI	WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2009	96

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2010	172	94.1 The Zone	94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade	210

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