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The Times They Are A‐Changin’ by Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A‐Changin’ is an album by Bob Dylan, released in 1964. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Times They Are A-Changin'”, on 13 lists with a best position of #20.
The Times They Are a-Changin', Bob Dylan's third album, came out on Columbia in 1964, produced by Tom Wilson and cut at Columbia's Studio A in 1963. After two records that mixed his own songs with borrowed ones, this is the first made entirely of Dylan originals, and it's the sternest thing he'd done yet: stark, bare-boned arrangements and a stack of bleak ballads about racism, poverty and a country splitting at the seams.
The title song became a banner for the civil rights and antiwar movements, and the tender "Boots of Spanish Leather" still finds its way onto countdowns. Not everyone was sold on it; some missed the jokes and variety of his earlier work. It still reached No. 20 in the US and went gold, and in 1965 it climbed to No. 4 in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Times They Are A‐Changin’ on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Times They Are A-Changin' | 13 | #20 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 2 | Boots of Spanish Leather | 2 | #473 | – | 2020–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.