Song · St. Vincent
“New York” by St. Vincent
From the album MASSEDUCTION (2017)
“New York” by St. Vincent appears on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2017 on the album MASSEDUCTION. Its best result is #2 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #22 indie & aaa song of 2017, #1,191 indie & aaa song of all time and #312 of the '10s.
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"New York" was St. Vincent's lead single from Masseduction, her fifth album, put out by Loma Vista in 2017, and it's a sharp left turn. Annie Clark, who produced it with Jack Antonoff, left the guitar heroics and industrial crunch at the door: this is her voice and a few gently rocking piano chords, and very little else.
It's a mournful breakup ballad, sung straight, with no arch wink to hide behind, and the grief spills over into the city itself. Clark walks through the East Village naming its haunts, so the song works as a farewell to a lover and to a New York that now lives mostly in memory. She had already tried it out in public, at a New York City benefit show back in June 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2017 | 2 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 39 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 74 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 23 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 65 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 65 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2023 | 994 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2025 | 562 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 563 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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