Song · Greta Van Fleet
“Highway Tune” by Greta Van Fleet
From the EP Black Smoke Rising (2017)
“Highway Tune” by Greta Van Fleet appears on 21 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2017 and 2026. It was first released in 2017 on the EP Black Smoke Rising. Its best result is #3 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #409 alternative song of 2017 and #5,829 alternative song of all time.
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"Highway Tune" was the first single from Black Smoke Rising, the 2017 debut EP by Greta Van Fleet, and the first song the band ever wrote and recorded together. Jake Kiszka had the guitar riff kicking around since 2010, two years before the group came together in 2012; they reshaped it, demoed it twice, and finally cut it with Al Sutton and Marlon Young producing and Herschel Boone lending a hand.
Joshua Kiszka howls up top, Jake's guitar struts, Sam Kiszka holds down the bass and Daniel Wagner keeps it pounding: vintage hard rock played with real hunger. It turned up in an episode of Shameless before its official release, then went all the way to the top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock and Active Rock charts in September 2017, and it rode along onto the band's double EP From the Fires.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 98 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 41 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 | 200 |
| 2017 | 56 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 11 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 16 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 16 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2017 | 30 |
| 2017 | 14 | 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2017 | 25 |
| 2017 | 62 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2018 | 3 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 23 (tie) | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 29 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
| 2019 | 29 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
| 2019 | 4 | 101 WRIF | WRIF Top 20 Songs of the Last 20 Years (2000-2019) | 21 |
| 2020 | 97 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2021 | 4 | KISW | KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from the '10s | 25 |
| 2022 | 154 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 317 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
| 2024 | 1050 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 583 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 434 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 109 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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