Song · John Prine
“When I Get to Heaven” by John Prine
From the album The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
“When I Get to Heaven” by John Prine appears on 7 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2018 and 2026. It was first released in 2018 on the album The Tree of Forgiveness. Its best result is #62 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #362 indie & aaa song of 2018 and #1,742 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"When I Get to Heaven" comes from The Tree of Forgiveness, John Prine's eighteenth studio album and, as it turned out, his last, released on April 13, 2018, less than two years before his death in April 2020. It was his first record of his own new songs since Fair & Square in 2005, cut at RCA Studio A in Nashville, and most of it was co-written with the likes of Pat McLaughlin, Dan Auerbach and Keith Sykes. This one Prine wrote entirely on his own, words and music, which makes it the sound of the old master working solo one more time on a record that became his farewell.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 62 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1408 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 81 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 428 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 600 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 173 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2026 | 288 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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