Artist · chart history · #153 in alternative artist polls · #646 in indie & aaa artist polls
Kid Rock
Solo artist Romeo United States American singer/rapper
Kid Rock is an artist from Romeo. Kid Rock has 141 chart appearances on 84 radio countdowns from 34 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Bawitdaba”, which appears on 44 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 2 countdowns. The station that charted Kid Rock most often is 106.7 WLLZ (Detroit, MI), with 17 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1999.
Kid Rock, born Robert James Ritchie in 1971, came up rapping in the Detroit hip-hop scene, and it took him most of the '90s to figure out that what he really wanted was to be a rock star and a rapper and a honky-tonk hell-raiser all at once. His first album, Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, landed on Jive in 1990, and the independent records that followed, The Polyfuze Method and Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp, found him sharpening the mix and the persona; the 1993 EP Fire It Up, with "I Am the Bullgod", dates from those years too. Self-taught, able to handle any instrument his band plays, he has run the production on nearly all of his albums himself.
Devil Without a Cause, in 1998, is where it all clicked, and it went on to sell 14 million copies. "Bawitdaba" is a stampede of chanted hooks and heavy guitars, pure rap rock bluster turned up past 10. "Cowboy" is the one that really changed things, a swaggering mash of hip-hop boasts and country twang that now counts as an early landmark of country rap, and "Only God Knows Why" slowed the whole circus down for a genuinely weary ballad. "Wasting Time" rounded it out, and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist followed in 2000.
Cocky, in 2001, kept blending hip-hop, country and rock, with "Forever" and "Lonely Road of Faith", and "American Bad Ass" kept the attitude cranked. From there the rap started to fade out of the picture. The 2003 self-titled album, with "Jackson Mississippi" and "I Am", and Rock n Roll Jesus in 2007, with "So Hott" and "Amen", leaned harder into country rock, and his biggest singles overall turned out to be "Picture" and "All Summer Long". Born Free, Rebel Soul, First Kiss and Sweet Southern Sugar followed before Bad Reputation in 2022 brought back the old rap rock stomp.
He's in the WWE Hall of Fame, and he has been a vocal backer of the Republican Party and Donald Trump, and a lightning rod for controversy over his old use of the Confederate flag and his politics.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kid Rock on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bawitdaba | 44 | #1 | 1 | 1999 | |
| 2 | Cowboy | 33 | #8 | – | 1999 | |
| 3 | All Summer Long | 14 | #1 | 1 | 2008 | |
| 4 | Only God Knows Why | 9 | #3 | – | 2000 | |
| 5 | Wasting Time | 5 | #26 | – | 2000 | |
| 6 | I Am The Bullgod | 5 | #12 | – | 1999 | |
| 7 | American Bad Ass | 7 | #17 | – | 2000 | |
| 8 | So Hott | 5 | #39 | – | 2007 | |
| 9 | Forever | 5 | #52 | – | 2001 | |
| 10 | Jackson Mississippi | 2 | #55 | – | 2004 | |
| 11 | Amen | 2 | #30 | – | 2007 | |
| 12 | Lonely Road of Faith | 1 | #18 | – | 2002 | |
| 13 | I Am | 2 | #53 | – | 2003 | |
| 14 | My Oedipus Complex | 1 | #33 | – | 2001 | |
| 15 | You Never Met a Mother | 1 | #90 | – | 2002 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Kid Rock 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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