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Top singles of 2018 from Americana Music Association

 

The annual list of top Americana singles from the Americana Music Association is always revelatory. While the top 10 is populated by a number of usual suspects – John Prine, Brandi Carlile and Chris Stapleton – we wouldn’t have guessed that Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats would have the 2 most-played songs of the year. Rounding out the top 4 were the Record Company and Lake Street Dive.

And no one could have guessed in 1977 that Elvis Costello and his ” My Aim is True” producer would both show up in 2018 on the charts of a not-yet-established genre. Costello is at number 8 with “Unwanted Number” and Lowe is at number 77.

The full chart from the Americana Music Association:

 
Year-End Position Artist Song
1 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “You Worry Me”
2 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “A Little Honey”
3 The Record Company “Life to Fix”
4 Lake Street Dive “Good Kisser”
5 John Prine “Knockin’ On Your Screen Door”
6 Brandi Carlile “The Joke”
7 Chris Stapleton “Midnight Train to Memphis”
8 Elvis Costello & The Imposters “Unwanted Number”
9 Jade Bird “Lottery”
10 Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real “Fool Me Once”
11 The Wood Brothers “Happiness Jones”
12 Trampled By Turtles “The Middle”
13 Kacey Musgraves “Slow Burn”
14 Margo Price “A Little Pain”
15 Glen Hansard “Roll On Slow”
16 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “If We Were Vampires”
17 Ashley Monroe “Hands On You”
18 Parker Millsap “Fine Line”
19 First Aid Kit “It’s a Shame”
20 Kelly Willis “Back Being Blue”
21 The Wood Brothers “River Takes the Town”
22 Ry Cooder “Shrinking Man”
23 The Devil Makes Three “Bad Idea”
24 American Aquarium “Tough Folks”
25 Lori McKenna “People Get Old”
26 Rayland Baxter “Casanova”
27 Amanda Shires “Leave It Alone”
28 The War and Treaty “Healing Tide”
29 Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Downey to Lubbock”
30 Anderson East “Girlfriend”
31 Willie Nelson “Last Man Standing”
32 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “Hey Mama”
33 John Prine “Summer’s End”
34 I’m With Her “I-89”
35 John Hiatt “Cry to Me”
36 Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real “Find Yourself”
37 Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite “Found the One”
38 Jade Bird “Uh Huh”
39 The Revivalists “All My Friends”
40 Shemekia Copeland “Ain’t Got Time for Hate”
41 Blackberry Smoke (feat. Amanda Shires) “Let Me Down Easy”
42 Ryan Adams “Baby I Love You”
43 Lake Street Dive “Shame, Shame, Shame”
44 The Marcus King Band “Homesick”
45 Boz Scaggs “Radiator 110”
46 Chris Stapleton “Millionaire”
47 Rodney Crowell “Shake Your Money Maker”
48 Hiss Golden Messenger “Domino (Time Will Tell)”
49 Paul Cauthen “Resignation”
50 Israel Nash “Rolling On”
51 Willie Nelson “Me and You”
52 Sam Morrow “Quick Fix”
53 Old Crow Medicine Show “Flicker & Shine”
54 Jason Boland & The Stragglers (feat. Sunny Sweeney) “I Don’t Deserve You”
55 Josh Ritter “Feels Like Lightning”
56 Calexico “Under the Wheels”
57 Courtney Marie Andrews “Kindness of Strangers”
58 Mark Knopfler “Good On You Son”
59 Joshua Hedley “Mr. Jukebox”
60 Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos”
61 Leftover Salmon “Show Me Something Higher”
62 Ruston Kelly “Mockingbird”
63 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “Hope the High Road”
64 Nicki Bluhm “To Rise You Gotta Fall”
65 Jackie Greene “Crazy Comes Easy”
66 I’m With Her “Game to Lose”
67 Cody Jinks “Must Be the Whiskey”
68 Grace Potter “I’d Rather Go Blind”
69 Carolina Story “Lay Your Head Down”
70 Kacey Musgraves “Butterflies”
71 Blackberry Smoke “Best Seat in the House”
72 JD McPherson “On the Lips”
73 The Record Company “Make It Happen”
74 JD McPherson “Lucky Penny”
75 The Jayhawks “Everybody Knows”
76 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings “Matter of Time”
77 Nick Lowe “Tokyo Bay”
78 Birds of Chicago “Roll Away”
79 First Aid Kit “Fireworks”
80 Mike Farris “Snap Your Fingers”
81 Paul Thorn “Love Train”
82 Rosanne Cash “The Walking Wounded”
83 The Band of Heathens “Heaven Help Us All”
84 Brandi Carlile “Hold Out Your Hand”
85 Tommy Emmanuel (feat. Rodney Crowell) “Looking Forward to the Past”
86 Calexico “End of the World with You”
87 Phil Cook “Miles Away”
88 Van William “Revolution”
89 Turnpike Troubadours “Something to Hold On To”
90 The Milk Carton Kids “Big Time”
91 Brent Cobb “King of Alabama”
92 Charley Crockett “Lil’ Girl’s Name”
93 Wade Bowen “So Long 6th Street”
94 Margo Price “Weakness”
95 Kacey Musgraves “Space Cowboy”
96 Steep Canyon Rangers “Out in the Open”
97 JD McPherson “Crying’s Just a Thing You Do”
98 The Black Lillies “Midnight Stranger”
99 Brandi Carlile “The Mother”
100 Dead Horses “On and On”

 

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