Song · Ayron Jones
“Mercy” by Ayron Jones
From the album Child of the State (2021)
“Mercy” by Ayron Jones appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2021. It was first released in 2021 on the album Child of the State. Its best result is #13 on the 98KUPD Top 98 of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #29 hard rock song of 2021 and #158 of the '20s.
Ayron Jones wrote "Mercy" with Marti Frederiksen and Scott Stevens toward the end of 2020, as the Black Lives Matter protests peaked, and it became a single from Child of the State, his third studio album, in 2021. It's his reckoning with an American year coming apart at the seams: climate change, social unrest, a democracy looking fragile and the COVID-19 pandemic, seen as both a witness and someone caught in the middle, and it keeps up his running account of life as a Black artist in rock and in the United States.
He wanted it to sound unsettling, so he borrowed the soft-loud push and pull he heard in Nirvana and Mudhoney, winding tension into the riffs and the arrangement before letting it go. It went on to top Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in June 2021.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2021 | 30 |
| 2021 | 13 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2021 | 98 |
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about "Mercy" by Ayron Jones.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.