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Kevin Morby

Solo artist Lubbock United States US singer‐songwriter

Kevin Morby is an artist from Lubbock. Kevin Morby has 14 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2017–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “This is a Photograph”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Kevin Morby most often is 90.9 The Bridge (Kansas City, MO), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2022.

14appearances

12countdowns

5songs charted

6stations

0#1 finishes

2017–2025years

Kevin Morby was born on 2 April 1988 and comes from Lubbock. Before he went solo he did time in two bands, Woods and the Babies, and it's no surprise that his own records sit at the crossroads of indie rock and alt-country: rumpled, literary, with a folk singer's patience and a rock band's pulse.

He started on Woodsist, releasing Harlem River in 2013, then moved to Dead Oceans in 2015. Still Life, Singing Saw and City Music followed, City Music landing in 2017. Oh My God, Sundowner and This Is a Photograph came next, the last of those in 2022, with "Rock Bottom" strutting through it like it owns the place. Morby handles guitar, bass, keys and vocals himself, and his voice, laconic and a little weathered, holds it all together.

Little Wide Open, from 2026, made it eight solo studio albums, a steady run from a writer who keeps finding new corners of the same wide-open country.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Kevin Morby on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	This is a Photograph	425	6	#10	–	2022
2	Rock Bottom	167	4	#34	–	2022
3	Like A Flower	63	1	#34	–	2023
4	City Music	42	2	#64	–	2017
5	Don't Underestimate Midwest American Sun	9	1	#83	–	2020

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

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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Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2025	163	This is a Photograph	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2025	799	City Music	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2024	233	This is a Photograph	WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024)
2023	27	This is a Photograph	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2023
2023	34	Like A Flower	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2023
2023	81	Rock Bottom	KXT Top 91 Songs of 2023
2023	702	This is a Photograph	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time
2022	10	This is a Photograph	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2022
2022	16	This is a Photograph	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022
2022	34	Rock Bottom	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2022
2022	51	Rock Bottom	Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2022
2022	78	Rock Bottom	KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 2022
2020	83	Don't Underestimate Midwest American Sun	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2020
2017	64	City Music	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017

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