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Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen
Western Stars is an album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2019. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 11 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hello Sunshine”, on 8 lists with a best position of #7.
Western Stars, released through Columbia on June 14, 2019, is Bruce Springsteen's nineteenth studio album and a solo record, with none of the E Street Band's familiar roar. Ron Aniello, who had worked with him on Wrecking Ball and High Hopes, produced it alongside the Boss himself, and the sound drifts toward country and pop rock: widescreen, sun-bleached, the soundtrack to a long drive with nobody waiting at the other end.
Critics heard something elegiac in it, songs that conjured up the American West, and it became his 20th top-10 album in America. Warner Bros. Pictures released a filmed performance of the whole album, with its own soundtrack arriving that September, and in June 2025 twelve outtakes from the sessions finally surfaced as Twilight Hours, part of the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Western Stars on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello Sunshine | 8 | #7 | – | 2019–2026 | |
| 2 | There Goes My Miracle | 1 | #68 | – | 2019 | |
| 3 | Tucson Train | 2 | #83 | – | 2019 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.