Song · Rufus Wainwright
“Hallelujah” by Rufus Wainwright
Released 2001
“Hallelujah” by Rufus Wainwright appears on 10 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2004 and 2024. It was first released in 2001. Its best result is #166 on The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #621 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Rufus Wainwright's "Hallelujah", out in 2001 with Patrick Leonard producing, puts one more voice on a song that was never meant to be this crowded. Leonard Cohen wrote it and first released it on Various Positions in 1984, where it did very little. It took John Cale's 1991 reworking, and then Jeff Buckley's, to wake the world up to it, and by 2008 more than 300 versions were floating around.
Wainwright's reading landed in 2001, the very year the song broke out of cult status and into the mainstream, and it became one more reason the song never went back into hiding.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 228 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2013 | 856 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2016 | 485 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2019 | 441 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 441 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2020 | 561 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 484 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2023 | 521 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 399 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 166 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs | 850 |
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