Album · Brandi Carlile
By the Way, I Forgive You by Brandi Carlile
By the Way, I Forgive You is an album by Brandi Carlile, released in 2018. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 36 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Joke”, on 24 lists and voted number one three times.
By the Way, I Forgive You, Brandi Carlile's sixth studio album, came out on February 16, 2018, on Elektra and Low Country Sound, with Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings co-producing and an original painting by Scott Avett on the cover. It's Americana with the house lights up, big-voiced and bruised, built around songs that take their time and then open up wide.
"The Joke" led the way as the first single, a slow-building ballad that climbs to a full-throated, goosebump peak, and "The Mother" and "Hold Out Your Hand" show the tender and the rowdy sides of the same record. The Grammys noticed: it won Best Americana Album in 2019 and was nominated for Album of the Year, and Carlile went into the 61st Annual Grammy Awards as the most nominated woman of the night, with six nods including Record and Song of the Year for "The Joke". In These Silent Days followed it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from By the Way, I Forgive You on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Joke | 24 | #1 | 3 | 2017–2026 | |
| 2 | Hold Out Your Hand | 7 | #1 | 1 | 2018–2025 | |
| 3 | The Mother | 5 | #4 | – | 2018–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.