Album · Leon Bridges
Coming Home by Leon Bridges
Coming Home is an album by Leon Bridges, released in 2015. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 59 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Coming Home”, on 23 lists with a best position of #4.
Coming Home, Leon Bridges' debut album, arrived on Columbia on June 23, 2015, and it plays like a lost reel from a vintage soul session that somebody finally found in the vault. Bridges wrote the songs with Austin Michael Jenkins, Joshua Block and Chris Vivion, and Niles City Sound produced, dressing his warm, unhurried croon in spare, vintage-sounding arrangements.
This is old-school soul revival played dead straight, no irony, no winking. The title track and "Smooth Sailin'" were the singles, the first a tender sway and the second a strutting little shuffle, while "Better Man" and "River" show how much he can do with very little. Critics mostly warmed to it, it climbed to number six on the Billboard 200, and it picked up a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album in 2016.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Coming Home on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coming Home | 23 | #4 | – | 2015–2026 | |
| 2 | Smooth Sailin' | 22 | #10 | – | 2015–2026 | |
| 3 | Better Man | 8 | #9 | – | 2015–2026 | |
| 4 | River | 6 | #131 | – | 2024–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.