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Sturgill Simpson
Solo artist Jackson United States American country singer and actor
Sturgill Simpson is an artist from Jackson. Sturgill Simpson has 58 chart appearances on 38 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Sing Along”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Sturgill Simpson most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 17 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2019.
Sturgill Simpson, born in 1978, came roaring out of the country underground sounding like the outlaws had never left, and then spent the rest of his career refusing to be anybody's idea of a country singer. His first two albums, High Top Mountain in 2013 and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music in 2014, came out independently, with the British label Loose handling Europe. Metamodern, with the cosmic, woozy "Turtles All the Way Down", drew a Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album, and the Americana Awards named him Emerging Act of the Year in 2014 and Artist of the Year a year later.
Atlantic signed him for A Sailor's Guide to Earth in 2016, his first major-label album, a big-hearted, ambitious record that brought "Brace for Impact (Live a Little)" and won the Grammy for Best Country Album while also landing an Album of the Year nod. Then he swerved hard: Sound & Fury in 2019 was a fuzz-soaked rock record, with "Sing Along" and "Mercury in Retrograde", and it was nominated for Best Rock Album.
In 2020 he went independent again with Cuttin' Grass, 2 volumes of bluegrass versions of his own songs, among them "I Don't Mind", followed by The Ballad of Dood and Juanita in 2021. Having promised only five albums under his own name, he has since carried on as Johnny Blue Skies, first with Passage du Desir and then Mutiny After Midnight, billed with The Dark Clouds, in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sturgill Simpson on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sing Along | 16 | #4 | – | 2019 | |
| 2 | Turtles all the way Down | 10 | #28 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | I Don't Mind | 5 | #10 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Brace for Impact (Live a Little) | 8 | #19 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Keep It Between The Lines | 5 | #11 | – | 2016 | |
| 6 | In Bloom | 3 | #29 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | Mercury in Retrograde | 3 | #64 | – | 2019 | |
| 8 | The Promise | 3 | #146 | – | 2014 | |
| 9 | Paradise | 2 | #161 | – | 2021 | |
| 10 | Life Of Sin | 1 | #480 | – | – | |
| 11 | Sea Stories | 1 | #511 | – | – | |
| 12 | All Around You | 1 | #856 | – | – |
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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