Song · Brandi Carlile
“Right On Time” by Brandi Carlile
From the album In These Silent Days (2021)
“Right On Time” by Brandi Carlile appears on 16 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2021 and 2025. It was first released in 2021 on the album In These Silent Days. Its best result is #1 on the WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #1 indie & aaa song of 2021, #2,344 indie & aaa song of all time and #5 of the '20s.
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"Right on Time" opened the account for In These Silent Days, Brandi Carlile's seventh studio album, arriving as its lead single on July 21, 2021. She wrote it with Phil and Tim Hanseroth and Dave Cobb while holed up in the Washington countryside during the first stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it carries that season's weight: the births, divorces and deaths that kept happening while the world was stuck indoors, and the very human ways people trip themselves up.
Cobb and Shooter Jennings produced, and the song is built around Carlile at the piano, Jennings's organ swelling behind her, until her voice climbs and breaks wide open. Courteney Cox directed the video. It earned three Grammy nominations, Record of the Year and Song of the Year among them, and Carlile sang it at the ceremony in 2022.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021 | 104 |
| 2021 | 6 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 9 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 9 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 1 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2021 | 107 |
| 2021 | 58 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Most Played Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 43 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2021 | 100 |
| 2021 | 4 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2021 | 200 |
| 2021 | 2 | WYEP Pittsburgh, PA | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2021 | 91 |
| 2021 | 3 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2021 | 88 |
| 2021 | 2 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 45 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2021 | 97 |
| 2022 | 76 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 603 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 323 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 311 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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