Artist · chart history
Adrianne Lenker
Solo artist Indianapolis United States
Adrianne Lenker is an artist from Indianapolis. Adrianne Lenker has 15 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2020–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Sadness As A Gift”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #26. The station that charted Adrianne Lenker most often is WFUV (New York, NY), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2024.
Adrianne Lenker, born in 1991, is best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of Big Thief, but her solo records are where she strips everything down to the nerve. Abysskiss arrived in 2018, and 2020 brought two more, songs and instrumentals. "anything", from songs, is the heart of it: a hushed guitar, a voice that seems to be thinking out loud, and a melody that drifts rather than marches.
Bright Future, in 2024, deepened the spell. "Sadness As a Gift", "Free Treasure" and "Once a Bunch" sound as if they were recorded in a room with the windows open, tender and rough-edged at once, and the album earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Adrianne Lenker on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sadness As A Gift | 5 | #26 | – | 2024 | |
| 2 | Free Treasure | 4 | #28 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | anything | 3 | #30 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Vampire Empire | 1 | #31 | – | 2024 | |
| 5 | Real House | 1 | #326 | – | 2024 | |
| 6 | Once a Bunch | 1 | #79 | – | 2024 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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