Song · Buddy Holly
“That'll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly
From the album That’ll Be the Day (1958)
“That'll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1991 and 2020. It was first released in 1958 on the album That’ll Be the Day. Its best result is #253 on the WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,351 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Buddy Holly wrote "That'll Be the Day" with Jerry Allison and cut it twice: first in 1956 with the Three Tunes, then again in 1957 with his new band, the Crickets. That second go is the one that caught fire, and the Three Tunes take only reached the public several months behind it. Norman Petty, Holly's producer, got his name on the songwriting credit as well, though he added nothing to the writing. The song also lends its title to That'll Be the Day, a 1958 Holly album.
The 1957 recording went gold in 1969, certified by the RIAA for more than a million American sales, and it turned up in George Lucas's 1973 film American Graffiti. The Grammy Hall of Fame inducted it in 1998, and in 2005 it entered the National Recording Registry.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 499 | WNEW-FM | WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) | 500 |
| 2001 | 260 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2007 | 253 | WTMD | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time | 897 |
| 2020 | 825 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
Also listed as: That'll Be The Day.
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