Artist · chart history
Charley Crockett
Solo artist San Benito
Charley Crockett is an artist from San Benito. Charley Crockett has 62 chart appearances on 41 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2021–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I'm Just a Clown”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #21. The station that charted Charley Crockett most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Charley Crockett, born in 1984 and hailing from San Benito, sings traditional country the way it sounded before Nashville put a shine on it: a lazy, honeyed drawl, twangy guitar and a deep streak of blues and old-time Americana running underneath. He is also a songwriter, record producer and actor, and he works at a pace almost nobody else in the genre can match, with 17 studio albums since 2014.
A Stolen Jewel (2015) and "Trinity River" got him going, In the Night (2016) followed, and Welcome to Hard Times (2020) sharpened the sound into something moodier and more cinematic. Music City USA (2021) came next, and then The Man From Waco (2022), carrying "I'm Just a Clown", broke into the Billboard 200.
$10 Cowboy (2024), with its title track and "Solitary Road", made it there too, and so did both Lonesome Drifter and Dollar A Day in 2025, the latter bringing "Crucified Son". It is a remarkable streak for a singer who works in a style this old-fashioned.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Charley Crockett on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I'm Just a Clown | 9 | #21 | – | 2022 | |
| 2 | Trinity River | 9 | #11 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Lonesome Drifter | 10 | #9 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | $10 Cowboy | 7 | #22 | – | 2024 | |
| 5 | Crucified Son | 5 | #10 | – | 2025 | |
| 6 | Welcome to Hard Times | 3 | #12 | – | – | |
| 7 | I need your love | 4 | #68 | – | 2021 | |
| 8 | Solitary Road | 5 | #24 | – | 2024 | |
| 9 | Music City USA | 3 | #233 | – | – | |
| 10 | Ain't Gotta Worry Child | 2 | #334 | – | – | |
| 11 | I Can Help | 1 | #204 | – | – | |
| 12 | Just A Clown | 1 | #23 | – | 2022 | |
| 13 | I Am Not Afraid | 1 | #462 | – | – | |
| 14 | In the Night | 1 | #536 | – | – | |
| 15 | I Feel For You | 1 | #954 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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