Song · Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
“Hey Mama” by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
From the album Tearing at the Seams (2018)
“Hey Mama” by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats appears on 13 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2018 and 2026. It was first released in 2018 on the album Tearing at the Seams. Its best result is #4 on the WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #9 indie & aaa song of 2018, #799 indie & aaa song of all time and #146 of the '10s.
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"Hey Mama" comes from Tearing at the Seams, the second album by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, which Stax put out in March 2018. Rateliff wrote the words and music on his own. The song got its own music video that May, and it climbed all the way to number one on Billboard's Adult Alternative Songs chart, giving the record another hit to stand beside "You Worry Me", which had topped the same chart, and "A Little Honey".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 19 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 48 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 4 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2018 | 107 |
| 2018 | 58 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 10 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 92 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018 | 200 |
| 2018 | 26 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 39 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 39 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 106 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2022 | 828 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2024 | 830 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2026 | 523 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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