Song · Pete Yorn
“Relator” by Pete Yorn with Scarlett Johansson
From the album Break Up (2009) With Scarlett Johansson
“Relator” by Pete Yorn with Scarlett Johansson appears on 10 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2009 and 2018. It was first released in 2009 on the album Break Up. Its best result is #18 (tie) on the WBER Listener Countdown 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #172 alternative song of 2009.
"Relator" was the opening single from Break Up, the 2009 duet album Pete Yorn made with Scarlett Johansson, and in May of that year it went out as a download sold only through Amazon. Yorn wrote and arranged it, Sunny Levine produced it, and it borrows some words from the Beatles' "All My Loving".
The video, which Jim Wright directed at Studio 1444 in Hollywood, casts Yorn and Johansson as a couple playing off each other while they perform the song; it premiered on Yahoo! Music in August and then moved to VH1. The pair took it to the French TV show Le Grand Journal that September and to The Ellen DeGeneres Show in October.
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 | 91 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2009 | 101 |
| 2009 | 52 | 106.1 The Corner Charlottesville, VA | 106.1 The Corner Top 106 Songs of 2009 | 106 |
| 2009 | 61 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 104 Songs of 2009 | 104 |
| 2009 | 21 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2009 | 93 |
| 2009 | 59 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 40 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2009 | 107 |
| 2009 | 32 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2009 | 106 |
| 2009 | 44 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2009 | 88 |
| 2010 | 18 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2010 | 95 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 669 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
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