Song · Rufus Wainwright
“Out Of The Game” by Rufus Wainwright
From the album Out of the Game (2012)
“Out Of The Game” by Rufus Wainwright appears on 8 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2012 and 2026. It was first released in 2012 on the album Out of the Game. Its best result is #29 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #116 indie & aaa song of 2012 and #3,185 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Out of the Game" is the title track and first single from Rufus Wainwright's seventh album, released in March on iTunes and in April through Decca/Polydor. Mark Ronson produced it; Wainwright wrote it alone, sings lead and plays acoustic guitar over Victor Axelrod on piano and synthesizer, Thomas Brenneck on electric guitar, Nick Movshon on bass and Homer Steinweiss on drums, with Charysse Blackman, Angee Blake and Kevin C. Keys on backing vocals. Tom Elmhirst mixed it.
Wainwright and Ronson started the record in New York in May 2011, working at Dunham Sound in Brooklyn and Sear Sound in Manhattan, and Wainwright pitched the album as the poppiest, most danceable music he had made, saying his daughter's arrival and the loss of his mother, Kate McGarrigle, both left their mark on it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 29 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 448 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2018 | 856 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2022 | 1220 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 1105 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 416 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 430 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 758 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
Also listed as: Out of the Game.
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