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“High Hopes” by Panic! at the Disco
From the album Pray for the Wicked (2018)
“High Hopes” by Panic! at the Disco appears on 14 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2018 and 2026. It was first released in 2018 on the album Pray for the Wicked. Its best result is #1 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #9 alternative song of 2018, #2,968 alternative song of all time and #145 of the '10s.
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"High Hopes" was the second single from Pray for the Wicked, the sixth Panic! at the Disco album, in 2018, and it's Brendon Urie's show from top to bottom: by then the band was essentially his solo project, and here he sings lead, plays the drums and piano and stacks the backing vocals. Jake Sinclair produced it and handled guitar and bass, and Rob Mathes arranged a full brass-and-strings army around them, so the song marches in like a Broadway finale with a stadium chant built in.
It climbed to number four on the Hot 100, beating 2006's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" as the band's highest-charting song, and it spent a record 65 weeks at number one on the Hot Rock Songs chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 12 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 30 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 2 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2018 | 51 |
| 2018 | 10 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2019 | 24 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2019 | 91 |
| 2019 | 1 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | ALT 98.7 | ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade | 98 |
| 2019 | 14 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
| 2020 | 56 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 107 Songs of Last Decade (2010s) | 107 |
| 2020 | 58 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2020 | 145 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2022 | 140 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2025 | 613 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2026 | 62 | 101X | 101X 500 (2026) | 500 |
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