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“Galileo” by The Indigo Girls

“Galileo” by The Indigo Girls appears on 33 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1992 and 2026. Its best result is #20 on the WYEP 913 Essential Songs. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #84 alternative song of 1992 and #1,349 alternative song of all time.

33countdowns
13stations
#20best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1992–2026years charted

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Emily Saliers wrote "Galileo" for Rites of Passage, the Indigo Girls' fourth album, out on Epic in 1992, and it handed the group their first top-10 on any chart when it reached No. 10 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. The album went on to sell platinum.

It's a folk-rock meditation on reincarnation, a restless soul tallying its past lives and fretting over how slowly it learns, and it calls on Galileo Galilei, the 17th-century astronomer, as its patron saint of clear sight: the man who sharpened the telescope and backed the Copernican case for a Sun-centered universe. The Indigo Girls have often closed their shows with it ever since they first played it in 1992.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1992 35 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1992 91
1992 37 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 252 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1999 230 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 510 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 510 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 510 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 968 WFPK WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time 2000
2002 510 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 1208 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 510 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 510 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2004 140 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) 885
2005 510 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 701 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 157 WTMD WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time 897
2009 20 WYEP WYEP 913 Essential Songs 913
2009 135 WXPN WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) 885
2010 651 WXPN WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) 885
2012 139 WYEP WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown 500
2012 709 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2014 691 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) 885
2016 30 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2019 34 WYEP WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 1099
2019 34 WYEP WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 1017
2020 750 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2021 712 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 668 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2023 30 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2023 39 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2024 63 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049
2025 347 WFPK WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s 500
2026 332 WYEP WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time 1180

Charting alongside it in 1992

Best songs of 1992 →
  1. 1Friday I'm in LoveThe Cure
  2. 2Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers
  3. 3DriveR.E.M.
  4. 4OneU2
  5. 5JeremyPearl Jam
  6. 6TomorrowMorrissey

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