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“The Best” by AWOLNATION
From the album Angel Miners & The Lightning Riders (2020)
“The Best” by AWOLNATION appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2019 and 2020. It was first released in 2020 on the album Angel Miners & The Lightning Riders. Its best result is #11 on the 101X Top 25 Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #32 alternative song of 2020 and #134 of the '20s.
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"The Best" was the first thing anyone heard from Angel Miners & the Lightning Riders: AWOLNATION put it out with a music video on November 4, 2019, months ahead of the album's April 2020 release, their fourth and their first on Better Noise Music. Aaron Bruno wrote it alone.
The record around it came out of a rough stretch. In the fall of 2018, while the band was on the road with Twenty One Pilots, the Woolsey Fire destroyed Bruno's home studio and much of what he owned, and that loss, along with a shooting in nearby Thousand Oaks that killed 12 people, fed into the album's lyrics.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 67 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019 | 103 |
| 2020 | 31 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 93 Songs of 2020 | 93 |
| 2020 | 11 | 101X Austin, TX | 101X Top 25 Songs of 2020 | 25 |
| 2020 | 31 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2020 | 88 |
| 2020 | 25 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | ALT 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2020 | 51 |
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