Song · X Ambassadors
“Unsteady” by X Ambassadors
From the EP The Reason (2014)
“Unsteady” by X Ambassadors appears on 14 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2015 and 2026. It was first released in 2014 on the EP The Reason. Its best result is #2 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #33 alternative song of 2016, #5,845 alternative song of all time and #278 of the '10s.
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"Unsteady" first turned up on The Reason, X Ambassadors' second EP, in 2014, before the band gave it a second life as the third single from their debut album, VHS, in October 2015. It's a ballad, and a raw one: frontman Sam Nelson Harris has explained that it's about his parents divorcing while he was in high school, a subject he nearly talked himself out of because so many families go through it.
He wrote it anyway, set on making the point that nobody was to blame when the family came apart. Alex da Kid produced it and shares the writing credit with Harris, Noah Feldshuh, Casey Harris and Adam Levin, and a remix by Erich Lee turned up on the soundtrack to Me Before You.
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 | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 56 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 | 99 |
| 2015 | 34 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
| 2015 | 81 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
| 2015 | 84 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2015 | 107 |
| 2016 | 20 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2016 | 99 |
| 2016 | 14 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2016 | 50 |
| 2016 | 2 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2016 | 88 |
| 2016 | 2 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2016 | 88 |
| 2016 | 15 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2016 | 50 |
| 2016 | 19 | SiriusXM Alt Nation National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Alt Nation's 36 Biggest Alternative Songs of 2016 | 36 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 51 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 107 Songs of Last Decade (2010s) | 107 |
| 2022 | 382 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2026 | 439 | 101X | 101X 500 (2026) | 500 |
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