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Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska is an album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1982. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 33 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Atlantic City”, on 25 lists with a best position of #21.
Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen's sixth album, came out on Columbia on September 30, 1982, and it's just Springsteen, alone, singing into a four-track tape machine in the bedroom of his house in Colts Neck, New Jersey. He meant the songs as demos for the E Street Band, but the full-band versions didn't measure up, so he put the tape out as it was; some of the leftovers turned up later on Born in the U.S.A.
What's there is bleak and hushed, stark lo-fi acoustic songs about working people who keep reaching and keep coming up short, plus a few outlaws, the killer Charles Starkweather among them on the title track. Flannery O'Connor's short stories pushed him back toward his own childhood. "Atlantic City" got his first music video, and the album went top 10 in America and Britain with no promotion from him at all. Its home-recorded DIY spirit has echoed through indie rock ever since.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Nebraska on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlantic City | 25 | #21 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 2 | Open All Night | 3 | #273 | – | 2010–2023 | |
| 3 | Nebraska | 3 | #411 | – | 2023–2024 | |
| 4 | State Trooper | 1 | #520 | – | 2010 | |
| 5 | Highway Patrolman | 1 | #1260 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.