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Waxahatchee
Solo artist Birmingham project by US singer‐songwriter Kathryn Crutchfield
Waxahatchee is an artist from Birmingham. Waxahatchee has 79 chart appearances on 46 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 2017–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Right Back to It”, which appears on 20 lists and was voted number one twice. In total the artist has topped 2 countdowns. The station that charted Waxahatchee most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2024.
Waxahatchee is Katie Crutchfield, born in 1989 and from Birmingham, and the project is named after Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama, where she grew up. She started the project in 2010 after her band P.S. Eliot broke up, and it began as a bare, acoustic solo affair before growing into a full band. American Weekend, Cerulean Salt, Ivy Tripp and Out in the Storm, with its churning "Silver", built her reputation as a songwriter who could make plain words land like a gut punch.
Saint Cloud, in 2020, leaned hard into alt-country, and it suits her: "Lilacs", "Fire" and "Can't Do Much" are warm, twangy and clear-eyed, her voice front and center with room to breathe. Tigers Blood, in 2024, went further down that road, with "Right Back to It" and "Bored" riding easy, loping grooves, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album.
She keeps plenty of other company too: the alt-country duo Plains with Jess Williamson, and Snocaps, a band with her twin sister Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Waxahatchee on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right Back to It | 20 | #1 | 2 | 2024 | |
| 2 | Lilacs | 14 | #10 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | Bored | 13 | #2 | – | 2024 | |
| 4 | Can't Do Much | 8 | #22 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Silver | 7 | #19 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | Mud | 5 | #23 | – | 2025 | |
| 7 | Much Ado About Nothing | 4 | #10 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Fire | 4 | #26 | – | 2020 | |
| 9 | Streets of Philadelphia | 1 | #48 | – | 2021 | |
| 10 | Tomorrow | 1 | #67 | – | 2022 | |
| 11 | 365 | 1 | #721 | – | – | |
| 12 | Fruits Of My Labor | 1 | #714 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Waxahatchee 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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