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“Change” by Mavis Staples

From the album We Get By (2019)

“Change” by Mavis Staples appears on 8 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2019 and 2023. It was first released in 2019 on the album We Get By. Its best result is #1 on the WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #34 indie & aaa song of 2019, #6,430 indie & aaa song of all time and #263 of the '10s.

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2019–2023years charted

"Change" went out as the lead single from We Get By, Mavis Staples' 14th studio album, released on Anti- in 2019, and like every song on the record it came from Ben Harper, who wrote and produced the album after the two had teamed up on "Love and Trust" from her 2016 album Livin' on a High Note.

The track keeps a tight crew around her: Rick Holmstrom on guitar, Jeff Turmes on bass, Stephen Hodges on drums, Donny Gerrard's voice beside hers, and Laura Mace and C.C. White on backing vocals, with Ethan Allen recording and mixing and sharing co-producer credit with the band, Gerrard and Staples herself. Staples said these songs carried a strong message and that real change is needed if the world is going to get better, and the lead single wears that conviction in its title.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2019	41	90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2019	90
2019	119	Lightning 100 Nashville, TN	Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2019	200
2019	50	WERS 88.9 Boston, MA	WERS Top 88 Songs of 2019	88
2019	8	Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	WEXT Top 97 of 2019	97
2019	1	WXPN Philadelphia, PA	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2019	100
2019	54	WFUV New York, NY	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2019	90

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2022	783	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time	1055
2023	1171	WYEP	WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023	1229

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