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“The Only One” by The Black Keys
From the album Brothers (2010)
“The Only One” by The Black Keys appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2010 and 2016. It was first released in 2010 on the album Brothers. Its best result is #66 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #431 indie & aaa song of 2010 and #5,013 indie & aaa song of all time.
"The Only One" sits on Brothers, the sixth Black Keys album, which Nonesuch put out in May 2010, and it's a homegrown job: Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote it together, the duo produced it, Auerbach engineered it himself and Tchad Blake mixed it.
Brothers came out of a rough patch. Auerbach's early-2009 solo record, Keep It Hid, upset Carney and opened a brief rift between the two, and once they made peace they started on a new album with Mark Neill, cutting the bulk of it late that year at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. The run-down rooms there pushed the pair toward stripped-back songs built on the low end, and that became the sound of the whole record, which went on to win the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 66 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 448 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
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