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Kacey Musgraves
Solo artist Golden United States
Kacey Musgraves is an artist from Golden. Kacey Musgraves has 93 chart appearances on 54 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2016–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Cardinal”, which appears on 18 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Kacey Musgraves most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 25 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2024.
Kacey Musgraves, born in 1988, got started early, self-releasing 3 solo albums and recording another as half of the duo Texas Two Bits before finishing seventh on the singing competition Nashville Star in 2007. In 2012 she signed with Mercury Nashville and scored with "Merry Go 'Round", and her major-label debut, Same Trailer Different Park, won the Grammy for Best Country Album and brought "Follow Your Arrow" along for the ride.
Pageant Material opened at number three on the Billboard 200 in 2015, and after a Christmas record she made Golden Hour in 2018, a soft-focus, starry-eyed country record that won all 4 Grammys it was nominated for, Album of the Year among them, with "Space Cowboy" and "Butterflies" taking Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. "Slow Burn" is the one the countdowns still come back to.
Star-Crossed became her fourth top-ten album in 2021, and she joined Zach Bryan on "I Remember Everything", which entered the Hot 100 in the top spot and won a Grammy. Deeper Well, in 2024, climbed as high as the runner-up slot on the Billboard 200, and its single "The Architect" won the Grammy for Best Country Song. The count stands at 8 Grammys, 7 CMA Awards and 4 ACM Awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kacey Musgraves on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardinal | 18 | #2 | – | 2024 | |
| 2 | Slow Burn | 17 | #3 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | justified | 12 | #10 | – | 2021 | |
| 4 | Deeper Well | 7 | #8 | – | 2024 | |
| 5 | The Architect | 7 | #2 | – | 2024 | |
| 6 | Space Cowboy | 6 | #142 | – | – | |
| 7 | Rainbow | 6 | #2 | – | 2019 | |
| 8 | Late To The Party | 2 | #47 | – | – | |
| 9 | Pageant Material | 2 | #121 | – | – | |
| 10 | High Horse | 2 | #2 | – | 2018 | |
| 11 | Oh, What A World 2.0 | 2 | #36 | – | 2020 | |
| 12 | Kansas City Star | 1 | #7 | – | 2018 | |
| 13 | Camera Roll | 1 | #43 | – | 2022 | |
| 14 | Biscuits | 1 | #429 | – | – | |
| 15 | Somebody To Love | 1 | #493 | – | – | |
| 16 | Silver Lining | 1 | #502 | – | – | |
| 17 | If the World Burns Down | 1 | #52 | – | 2025 | |
| 18 | Follow Your Arrow | 3 | #671 | – | – | |
| 19 | Superbloom | 1 | #79 | – | 2024 | |
| 20 | Breadwinner | 1 | #87 | – | 2021 | |
| 21 | Golden Hour | 1 | #785 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Kacey Musgraves 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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