Full of life and catching feelings: Christine and the Queens’ greatest songs – ranked! — SkimNews
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- People, I've Been Sad (2020) takes the top spot in the ranking; released just before Covid struck, it favours introspection over wallowing, turning regret, familial trauma and isolation into a confessional carried by glowing synths, a slow-burn pace and an empathetic string section.
- Tilted (2015) ranks second, the song that "changed everything" for Christine and the Queens when Chris performed it at a rain-soaked, post-Brexit-vote Glastonbury in 2016, its "I am actually good" chorus framed as a balm celebrating difference and warding off homogenisation.
- Full of Life (2023) places third, built around Johann Pachelbel's baroque Canon in D and inspired by Björk, recorded as if Chris were standing in a cathedral and founded on grief whose base is the vitality that comes through great loss.
- Hopecore, the fifth album from 2024, was leaked online by the artist himself and released under the name Rahim Redcar; Chris has since returned to releasing as Christine and the Queens while using Chris as his own name, with "Forgive 8888888" ranked 20th and "Deep Holes" 17th.
- Catching Feelings (2025) with French disco pioneer Cerrone ranks 11th, drawn from their EP of the same name and built on a reconstruction of a lost early-80s pop smash, with Chris singing the word "dickheads" over it.
- Gone, the 2019 Charli xcx collaboration, ranks fourth, fusing Charli's brash metallic agitpop with Chris's decadent, undulating funk as an ode to crippling anxiety, with Chris leaning into paranoia and shadowy whisperings.
- Doesn't Matter (2018) sits at No. 8, written during intense loneliness with thoughts of suicide, and ends by imploring those who have found light to hold on to it.
Why it matters: In a 20-song ranking, putting 'People, I've Been Sad' at No. 1 makes Chris's 2020 pre-lockdown confessional — not the 2015 'Tilted' that "changed everything" at the rain-soaked 2016 Glastonbury — the centrepiece of his catalogue. The list also folds in the 2024 Hopecore/Rahim Redcar era and the 2025 Cerrone EP, placing his newest work inside the canon rather than outside it.
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