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Amanda Shires
Solo artist Lubbock United States US country
Amanda Shires is an artist from Lubbock. Amanda Shires has 20 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2017–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hawk For The Dove”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #17. The station that charted Amanda Shires most often is Lightning 100 (Nashville, TN), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2022.
Amanda Shires plays the fiddle like it owes her an apology and sings like she's already decided not to accept it. Born in Lubbock in 1982, she has worn a lot of hats besides her own: sawing away with the Texas Playboys and Thrift Store Cowboys, trading songs in a duo with Rod Picott, and standing in the ranks of Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, whose The Nashville Sound won the Grammy for Best Americana Album.
Her own records have been coming since 2005, and the Americana crowd named her Emerging Act of the Year in 2017. To the Sunset, in 2018, has a restless, electric shimmer, and "Leave it Alone" glides along on it. In 2019 she founded the Highwomen, a country supergroup with Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby.
Take It Like a Man in 2022 is the bold one. "Hawk For The Dove" builds from a slow smolder into something fierce and unguarded, with her violin cutting through like a blade. She's kept going since, most recently with Nobody's Girl in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Amanda Shires on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawk For The Dove | 4 | #17 | – | 2022 | |
| 2 | Leave it Alone | 5 | #59 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | Deciphering Dreams | 1 | #18 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Piece of Mind | 2 | #45 | – | 2025 | |
| 5 | Saddle In The Rain | 1 | #65 | – | 2021 | |
| 6 | The Problem | 1 | #42 | – | 2020 | |
| 7 | Take It Like A Man | 1 | #94 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Borderline | 1 | #455 | – | – | |
| 9 | The Way It Dimmed | 1 | #122 | – | 2017 | |
| 10 | The Problem f/Jason Isbell | 1 | #124 | – | 2020 | |
| 11 | That's All | 1 | #777 | – | – | |
| 12 | Break Out The Champagne | 1 | #1342 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Amanda Shires as a guest.
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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