Song · Mumford & Sons
“The Wolf” by Mumford & Sons
From the album Wilder Mind (2015)
“The Wolf” by Mumford & Sons appears on 17 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2015 and 2023. It was first released in 2015 on the album Wilder Mind. Its best result is #6 on the Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #15 alternative song of 2015, #5,916 alternative song of all time and #382 of the '10s.
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"The Wolf" was the second single from Wilder Mind, the 2015 album where Mumford & Sons put the banjo away and plugged in. Gone is the stomping folk; in its place is a surging alternative rock and garage rock charge, electric guitars shoved up front and the rhythm section driving hard.
All four members, Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane, share the writing credit, and James Ellis Ford produced it with Aaron Dessner as associate producer and Robert Orton on the mix. The video, directed by Marcus Haney, follows the band around the 2015 Bonnaroo festival and its headline set, the four of them in costume: Mumford as Robin Hood, Dwane as a giant chicken, Marshall in a wedding dress and Lovett as a fox.
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 | 20 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2015 | 91 |
| 2015 | 10 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2015 | 25 |
| 2015 | 34 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 73 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 23 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 | 99 |
| 2015 | 30 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 88 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 34 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
| 2015 | 70 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015 | 90 |
| 2015 | 43 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 | 104 |
| 2015 | 33 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 | 50 |
| 2015 | 6 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 | 100 |
| 2015 | 21 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 631 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 631 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 414 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2023 | 417 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
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