Artist · chart history
She & Him
Band Portland United States Formed 2006
She & Him formed in 2006 in Portland, United States. She & Him has 11 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “In the Sun”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted She & Him most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
She & Him is the Portland, Oregon duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, and the division of labor is simple: she sings and plays piano and ukulele, he plays guitar and produces. Together they make sweetly old-fashioned pop that sounds as if it drifted in from an old AM radio, all reverb, soft harmonies and heartache worn lightly.
Their first album, Volume One, came out on the indie label Merge Records on March 18, 2008, with "Sentimental Heart" among its hushed charms, and it tied them to the whimsical, acoustic indie-folk wave of those years. Volume Two followed in 2010 and brightened the colors: "In the Sun" is a bouncy, sunlit bop, Deschanel breezing over Ward's twangy guitar. They have also recorded for Double Six and Columbia.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by She & Him on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Sun | 7 | #5 | – | 2010 | |
| 2 | Sentimental Heart | 3 | #95 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | This Is Not a Test | 1 | #497 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 830 | Sentimental Heart | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) |
| 2010 | 82 | In the Sun | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2010 |
| 2010 | 5 | In the Sun | WEXT Top 97 of 2010 |
| 2010 | 14 | In the Sun | Impact 89FM Top 89 of 2010 |
| 2010 | 62 | In the Sun | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010 |
| 2010 | 62 | In the Sun | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2010 |
| 2010 | 65 | In the Sun | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2010 |
| 2010 | 68 | In the Sun | WFPK Top 100 Songs of 2010 |
| 2009 | 344 | Sentimental Heart | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2009 | 497 | This Is Not a Test | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2008 | 95 | Sentimental Heart | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2008 |
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