Song · Jack Johnson
“One Step Ahead” by Jack Johnson
From the album Meet the Moonlight (2022)
“One Step Ahead” by Jack Johnson appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2022. It was first released in 2022 on the album Meet the Moonlight. Its best result is #11 on the WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #96 indie & aaa song of 2022.
Jack Johnson picked "One Step Ahead" to lead the way into Meet the Moonlight, his eighth album, in 2022, and it finds him sharing the load. He made the song and the album with producer and musician Blake Mills, whose résumé runs through Fiona Apple, Andrew Bird and Bob Dylan, and this time the two of them played most of the instruments between them, where on All the Light Above It Too Johnson had played most of them himself.
They got there by swapping playlists, Johnson said, bonding over music that sounds easy no matter how much work went into it, until he trusted Mills enough to let go and step outside his comfort zone. Joseph Lorge, a regular Mills collaborator who also worked on Phoebe Bridgers' 2020 album Punisher, mixed and engineered it.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 84 | KXT Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 2022 | 92 |
| 2022 | 28 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2022 | 97 |
| 2022 | 11 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022 | 100 |
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