Song · The Chicks
“Goodbye Earl” by The Chicks
From the album Fly (1999)
“Goodbye Earl” by The Chicks appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2021 and 2025. It was first released in 1999 on the album Fly. Its best result is #237 on the WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s.
Dennis Linde wrote "Goodbye Earl", words and music, but it was the Chicks, then still billed as the Dixie Chicks, who made his country murder ballad famous on Fly, their fifth studio album, in 1999. Linde even plays acoustic guitar on their recording, which Blake Chancey and Paul Worley produced and Billy Sherrill recorded.
Radio got there before the record company did: stations began playing it unsolicited in late 1999, enough to put it on the charts, and Monument then made it the album's third single in 2000, after "Cowboy Take Me Away". It climbed to No. 13 on Billboard's country singles chart, with the group's cover of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" on the CD single's flip side, and Rolling Stone later counted it among the 500 greatest songs of all time.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 676 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2023 | 797 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2025 | 237 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
Also listed as: Goodbye Earle.
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