Song · Bob Dylan
“I Contain Multitudes” by Bob Dylan
Released 2020
“I Contain Multitudes” by Bob Dylan appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2020 and 2025. It was first released in 2020. Its best result is #36 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #263 indie & aaa song of 2020 and #4,864 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"I Contain Multitudes" opens Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan's 39th studio album, and it slipped out unannounced as the record's second single on April 17, 2020, on Columbia. It landed less than a month after "Murder Most Foul", and together the two were the first new songs Dylan had released since Tempest in 2012.
The title comes from Walt Whitman, lifted from Section 51 of "Song of Myself", and it makes a fitting banner for the opening of a late-career album. Dylan wrote the words and music and sings it; Chris Shaw recorded and mixed it, with Joseph Lorge assisting. It's a contemporary folk meditation, patient and unhurried, and it still found its way to 5 on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 36 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2020 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 961 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2025 | 494 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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