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Jason Isbell
Solo artist Green Hill United States
Jason Isbell is an artist from Green Hill. Jason Isbell has 95 chart appearances on 46 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “24 Frames”, which appears on 24 lists with a best position of #11. The station that charted Jason Isbell most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 23 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2015.
Jason Isbell writes the kind of songs that make you pull the car over. Born in 1979, he cut his teeth in the Drive-By Truckers from 2001 to 2007, then struck out on his own. He cut his first record fronting the 400 Unit in 2009.
Southeastern, in 2013, was the breakthrough and the reckoning: an unflinching record, stark and tender, and his first real commercial success. It made the case that he belongs among the finest songwriters working in country and rock. "Cover Me Up", its hushed centerpiece, won Song of the Year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards, and the following year he was named Americana Artist of the Year. Something More Than Free, out on New West Records in 2015, kept the streak going with "24 Frames", a jangling, rueful rocker that stands among his best.
He kept climbing. The Nashville Sound, in 2017, carried "If We Were Vampires", a Grammy winner, and by now he's won six Grammys from ten nominations. Weathervanes with the 400 Unit followed in 2023, and the solo record Foxes in the Snow arrived in March 2025. He's even turned up on screen along the way, in Billions, Squidbillies, Deadwood: The Movie and Killers of the Flower Moon. But it's the songs, emotional and plain-spoken, that keep people coming back.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jason Isbell on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 Frames | 24 | #11 | – | 2015 | |
| 2 | Cover Me Up | 9 | #45 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Stockholm | 12 | #2 | – | 2013 | |
| 4 | Bury Me | 7 | #8 | – | 2025 | |
| 5 | Alabama Pines | 6 | #19 | – | – | |
| 6 | Speed Trap Town | 4 | #380 | – | – | |
| 7 | Relatively Easy | 3 | #21 | – | 2013 | |
| 8 | Hope The High Road | 3 | #7 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | Cumberland Gap | 2 | #128 | – | – | |
| 10 | The Life You Chose | 2 | #25 | – | 2016 | |
| 11 | Super 8 | 3 | #194 | – | 2013 | |
| 12 | Dreamsicle | 2 | #136 | – | – | |
| 13 | Elephant | 2 | #140 | – | 2013 | |
| 14 | Traveling Alone | 1 | #97 | – | – | |
| 15 | Tupelo | 1 | #170 | – | – | |
| 16 | Cumberland Gap (Live) | 1 | #29 | – | 2018 | |
| 17 | Something More Than Free | 2 | #394 | – | – | |
| 18 | Ride to Robert's | 1 | #39 | – | 2025 | |
| 19 | Be Afraid | 1 | #468 | – | – | |
| 20 | Codeine | 1 | #594 | – | – | |
| 21 | Should I Go Missing | 1 | #65 | – | 2025 | |
| 22 | Driver 8 | 2 | #692 | – | – | |
| 23 | Last of My Kind | 1 | #663 | – | – | |
| 24 | Seven Mile Island | 1 | #793 | – | – | |
| 25 | Death Wish | 1 | #84 | – | 2023 | |
| 26 | Live Oak | 1 | #89 | – | 2013 | |
| 27 | If It Takes a Lifetime | 1 | #822 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Jason Isbell as a guest.
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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