Artist · chart history
The New Basement Tapes
Band Formed 2014
The New Basement Tapes formed in 2014. The New Basement Tapes has 14 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Kansas City”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #14. The station that charted The New Basement Tapes most often is WTMD (Baltimore, MD), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
The New Basement Tapes got together in 2014 around a treasure that had only just come to light: lyrics Bob Dylan had written out by hand in 1967, during the same stretch when he was making the recordings with the Band that eventually came out in 1975 as The Basement Tapes. A crew of songwriters was brought in to build new songs on those words.
And what a crew: Elvis Costello, Jim James, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith and Rhiannon Giddens, five distinct voices from both sides of the Atlantic. The result, Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, came out on Harvest in 2014, loose-limbed and warm, part folk, part barroom rock, with "Kansas City" leading the way. The group also turns up in the Showtime documentary Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued the same year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The New Basement Tapes on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas City | 12 | #14 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | Nothing To It | 1 | #412 | – | – | |
| 3 | When I Get My Hands On You | 1 | #68 | – | 2015 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 46 | Kansas City | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places |
| 2019 | 1070 | Kansas City | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2018 | 412 | Nothing To It | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 |
| 2015 | 14 | Kansas City | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2015 |
| 2015 | 22 | Kansas City | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 |
| 2015 | 68 | When I Get My Hands On You | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 |
| 2015 | 71 | Kansas City | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 |
| 2014 | 19 | Kansas City | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 26 | Kansas City | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 29 | Kansas City | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 47 | Kansas City | 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 54 | Kansas City | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 60 | Kansas City | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2014 |
| 2014 | 85 | Kansas City | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2014 |
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