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“I Only Lie When I Love You” by Royal Blood
From the album How Did We Get So Dark? (2017)
“I Only Lie When I Love You” by Royal Blood appears on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2017 and 2018. It was first released in 2017 on the album How Did We Get So Dark?. Its best result is #10 on the 98KUPD Top 98 of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #56 alternative song of 2017.
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Royal Blood let "I Only Lie When I Love You" loose in June 2017, a single from How Did We Get So Dark?, their second album, and it struts like a band that knows exactly how much noise it can make. Mike Kerr wrote the words and the music with Ben Thatcher; Kerr plays bass and sings lead and backing vocals, and Thatcher handles drums and percussion. Jolyon Thomas produced it with the band and engineered alongside Drew Bang, and Tom Dalgety mixed.
Pascal Teixeira's video set them against a white backdrop, shot from warped, rolling angles. In the US it went to rock radio that October and climbed to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, the band's second chart-topper there, and to number sixteen on Alternative Songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 88 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 50 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 20 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 83 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
| 2017 | 89 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 40 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2017 | 36 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 | 200 |
| 2018 | 47 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 17 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 10 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2018 | 98 |
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