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“If I Ever Was a Child” by Wilco

From the album Schmilco (2016)

“If I Ever Was a Child” by Wilco appears on 7 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2016 and 2018. It was first released in 2016 on the album Schmilco. Its best result is #15 on the WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #37 indie & aaa song of 2016 and #459 of the '10s.

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#15best position

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2016–2018years charted

"If I Ever Was a Child" was one of the first tastes of Schmilco, Wilco's tenth studio album: the band shared it in July 2016 when it announced the record, a little over a year after Star Wars, and dBpm put the full album out on September 9. Jeff Tweedy wrote the words and music and sings lead, and he produced it with Tom Schick, who engineered it alongside Mark Greenberg.

The record had been sitting finished for a while. By May, Tweedy was telling the crowds at his solo benefit shows in Chicago that it was done, even as the band weighed whether to put it out yet, and its title tips a hat to Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Schmilsson.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2016	56	The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2016	89
2016	46	90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO	90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2016	90
2016	83	Lightning 100 Nashville, TN	Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016	101
2016	44	WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016	104
2016	15	WTMD Baltimore, MD	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2016	89
2016	92	107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2016	107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2018	617	WTMD	WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018	896

Also listed as: If I Ever Was A Child.

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