Song · Margo Price
“Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down” by Margo Price
From the album Hard Headed Woman (2025)
“Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down” by Margo Price appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2025 and 2026. It was first released in 2025 on the album Hard Headed Woman. Its best result is #6 on the Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2025. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #76 indie & aaa song of 2025, #2,710 indie & aaa song of all time and #395 of the '20s.
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Margo Price put "Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down" on Hard Headed Woman, her 2025 album, and the title reads like a motto stitched on a jacket. Matt Ross-Spang produced and recorded it, and he's in the thick of the track too, adding percussion and joining Price and Kristin Webber on backing vocals.
The band is lean: Jamie Davis on electric guitar, Alec Newman on bass, Dillon Napier on drums and percussion, and Russ Pahl's pedal steel curling through the gaps, the sound of a singer who'd rather dig in her heels than back down.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | WYEP Pittsburgh, PA | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2025 | 91 |
| 2025 | 43 | KXT Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | KXT Top 91 Songs of 2025 | 91 |
| 2025 | 14 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2025 | 89 |
| 2025 | 6 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2025 | 200 |
| 2025 | 65 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2025 | 90 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
Also listed as: Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down; Don't Let the Bastards Let You Down.
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