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Steve Earle
Solo artist Hampton United States US folk/rock singer/songwriter
Steve Earle is an artist from Hampton. Steve Earle has 74 chart appearances on 39 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Copperhead Road”, which appears on 19 lists with a best position of #125. The station that charted Steve Earle most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 24 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Steve Earle, born in 1955, started out writing songs in Nashville and then kicked the door down with his 1986 debut, Guitar Town, a record of hard-driving, road-weary country rock that sent its title track to number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country chart. Two years later came "Copperhead Road", his best-selling single, a thundering slice of outlaw rock that got to number 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart and came roaring back decades later on the strength of online sales.
He has never settled on one lane: country, rock, folk, blues and Americana have all passed through his records, from El corazón to The Revolution Starts Now. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Bob Seger and plenty of others have cut his songs, and he has won three Grammys, all for Best Contemporary Folk Album. His 2011 album I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, with "Waitin' on the Sky" and "This City", is a late-career gem from a man who has also acted in The Wire and Treme and turned out a novel, a stage play and a short-story collection.
He is the father of the late singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle. The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted him in 2020, and the Grand Ole Opry made him a member in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Steve Earle on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copperhead Road | 19 | #125 | – | – | |
| 2 | The Revolution Starts Now | 9 | #208 | – | – | |
| 3 | Transcendental Blues | 6 | #74 | – | – | |
| 4 | Guitar Town | 7 | #237 | – | – | |
| 5 | City Of Immigrants | 5 | #33 | – | 2007 | |
| 6 | Telephone Road | 5 | #248 | – | – | |
| 7 | Jerusalem | 3 | #316 | – | – | |
| 8 | Satellite Radio | 2 | #348 | – | – | |
| 9 | This City | 1 | #196 | – | – | |
| 10 | Waitin' on the Sky | 2 | #44 | – | 2011 | |
| 11 | If You Fall | 1 | #768 | – | – | |
| 12 | Galway Girl | 2 | #398 | – | – | |
| 13 | The Galway Girl | 1 | #395 | – | – | |
| 14 | Feel Alright | 2 | #401 | – | – | |
| 15 | Before They Make Me Run | 1 | #676 | – | – | |
| 16 | Amerika v. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do) | 1 | #765 | – | – | |
| 17 | I Ain't Ever Satisfied | 1 | #915 | – | – | |
| 18 | Lungs | 1 | #82 | – | 2009 | |
| 19 | A Perfect Hand | 1 | #83 | – | 2010 | |
| 20 | More Than I Can Do | 1 | #1846 | – | – | |
| 21 | Someday | 1 | #860 | – | – | |
| 22 | Hometown Blues | 1 | #1980 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Steve Earle 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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