Song · Sharon Van Etten
“Seventeen” by Sharon Van Etten
From the album Remind Me Tomorrow (2019)
“Seventeen” by Sharon Van Etten appears on 22 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2019 and 2025. It was first released in 2019 on the album Remind Me Tomorrow. Its best result is #5 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #394 alternative song of 2019.
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"Seventeen" comes from Sharon Van Etten's 2019 album Remind Me Tomorrow, a song she wrote with Sam Cohen. John Congleton produced, recorded and mixed it, and he stuffed the arrangement with odd machinery: drum machines, sampler, voice synthesizer, even a theremin, alongside Van Etten's own piano and synths.
It's a big, pounding, headlong thing, with Brian Reitzell and McKenzie Smith both on drums, Zachary Dawes on bass, Luke Reynolds adding lap steel and celesta, and Heather Woods Broderick behind her on backing vocals. Van Etten rides the swell with a voice that keeps getting bigger as the song does.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 23 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2019 | 104 |
| 2019 | 8 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2019 | 89 |
| 2019 | 62 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2019 | 107 |
| 2019 | 54 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2019 | 90 |
| 2019 | 46 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2019 | 100 |
| 2019 | 5 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019 | 89 |
| 2019 | 10 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2019 | 200 |
| 2019 | 8 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2019 | 90 |
| 2019 | 102.7 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019 | 103 |
| 2019 | 68 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 906 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 906 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2022 | 400 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2022 | 1149 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 623 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2023 | 560 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2023 | 749 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 233 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 300 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 137 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 140 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 557 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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