Song · Mumford & Sons
“Believe” by Mumford & Sons
From the album Wilder Mind (2015)
“Believe” by Mumford & Sons appears on 14 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2015 and 2019. It was first released in 2015 on the album Wilder Mind. Its best result is #1 on the WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #22 alternative song of 2015 and #423 of the '10s.
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"Believe" was the lead single from Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons' third album, and in 2015 it announced that the acoustic instruments had been put away. Out went the folk-rock stomp of Sigh No More and Babel; in came electric guitars and a brooding alternative-rock swell, with the National among the inspirations. It started, oddly, without Marcus Mumford, usually the main writer: after a friend's wedding in Texas the band spent a week writing on a ranch, he headed home a day ahead of the others, and when they got back together in London, Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett and Winston Marshall had the song. The four built it up together, James Ford produced with Aaron Dessner as associate producer, and BBC Radio 1 gave it its first spin.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2015 | 25 |
| 2015 | 56 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 22 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 | 99 |
| 2015 | 5 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 | 104 |
| 2015 | 42 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2015 | 50 |
| 2015 | 85 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 52 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 | 100 |
| 2015 | 1 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 | 50 |
| 2015 | 28 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 | 107 |
| 2015 | 18 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2015 | 125 |
| 2015 | 65 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 30 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 132 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2019 | 97 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
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