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Jesse Welles
Solo artist Ozark United States
Jesse Welles is an artist from Ozark. Jesse Welles has 21 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2025–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Horses”, which appears on 12 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Jesse Welles most often is KXT (Dallas–Fort Worth, TX), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Jesse Welles, born Jesse Wells in 1992 and hailing from Ozark, spent years out front of other bands before the internet caught up with him. He fronted Dead Indian, formed in 2012, then Cosmic-American in 2015, played under the name Jeh Sea Wells, and put out a debut album, Red Trees and White Trashes, in 2018.
The turn came in 2024, when he started posting stark, pointed protest songs to social media, one after another, with titles like "The Poor", "Cancer", "United Health" and "The Olympics". Voice, guitar, harmonica and the headlines for raw material: the old folk-singer's trick of turning the news into a sing-along, retooled for the scrolling age. Comparisons to Woody Guthrie followed fast.
Middle, released in 2025, brought that plainspoken, rootsy sound to rock radio, with "Horses" climbing high on the countdowns and "Wheel" rolling along behind it. By 2026 he had four nominations at the 68th Grammy Awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Jesse Welles on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 367 | Wheel | KXT 917 Song Countdown |
| 2025 | 1 | Horses | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 3 | Horses | WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 3 | Horses | The Summit FM Top 91 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 4 | Horses | KXT Top 91 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 5 | Wheel | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 7 | Horses | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 12 | Horses | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 23 | Horses | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 31 | Horses | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 33 | Horses | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 38 | Horses | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 40 | Wheel | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 43 | Wheel | WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 46 | Horses | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 55 | Horses | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 60 | Wheel | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 69 | Wheel | WEXT Top 106 of 2025 |
| 2025 | 73 | Wheel | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 87 | Wheel | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 88 | Wheel | KXT Top 91 Songs of 2025 |
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