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Rhiannon Giddens
Solo artist Greensboro United States
Rhiannon Giddens is an artist from Greensboro. Rhiannon Giddens has 14 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2015–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “You're the One”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #30. The station that charted Rhiannon Giddens most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2023.
Rhiannon Giddens was born on February 21, 1977, and hails from Greensboro, North Carolina, and there's not much in American roots music she can't pick up and make sing. She first made her name as a founding member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she sang lead and played fiddle and banjo, digging up old-time string band music and making it sound urgent and alive.
Her solo run has kept widening: Tomorrow Is My Turn in 2015, Freedom Highway in 2017, then There Is No Other and They're Calling Me Home, both made with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. She was also part of T Bone Burnett's New Basement Tapes project in 2014, setting unreleased Bob Dylan lyrics to new music, and she's a member of Our Native Daughters. You're the One, from 2023, is the loosest and most joyful record she's made, and "Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad" struts with a brassy, soulful swing while the title track glows.
The honors pile up too: a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017, the Legacy of Americana Award in 2019, and in 2023 the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Omar, the opera she wrote with Michael Abels.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Rhiannon Giddens on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're the One | 2 | #30 | – | 2023 | |
| 2 | Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad | 2 | #35 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Black is the Color | 3 | #52 | – | 2015 | |
| 4 | Freedom Highway | 1 | #383 | – | – | |
| 5 | Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind | 2 | #787 | – | – | |
| 6 | Just The Two Of Us | 1 | #427 | – | – | |
| 7 | Shake Sugaree | 1 | #507 | – | – | |
| 8 | Too Little Too Late | 1 | #791 | – | – | |
| 9 | The Love We Almost Had | 1 | #1346 | – | – |
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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