New Country Releases Rankdown Thread

[.indulgecountry]

Nov 19, 2024 12:57:54 GMT -5 LBTrocks said:

My number 2 should go any time now, too.

LBTrocks has now lost his entire top 3 and we aren't even done with the bottom 10 reveals yet.

"River Black" by Dillon James is another country rocker, but this one fared at least just a little bit better (emphasis on little bit) than the ones that made up our July set's bottom 3. Flops was joined by one other top 10 from castleoblivion26, though most ranks indicated minimal passion for this one.

[.indulgecountry]

23. "Lies Lies Lies" - Morgan Wallen

Total: 265

Darkest Hour : 6
.indulgecountry : 10
LBTrocks : 10
🌺CountryLineDancer : 12
tim : 13
George Strait Junkie : 17
taylor is terrified : 20
kw9461 : 22
nuggie99 : 22
bboat11 : 22
Kris Kringle : 26
austin : 27
SHOOTER : 28
castleoblivion26 : 30

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28
Am I Okay?
Bones
Bottle It Up
Coming Home
Cowboy Break My Heart
Cowboys Cry Too
Dammit Randy
Dick in My Nightstand
Didn't I
Free Like
Heaven by Noon
High and Lonesome
Lose You Again
Miss America
Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun)
Somewhere with Her
Son of a Gun
Sun to Me
Three Drinks Behind
Wild Horses

[.indulgecountry]

Polarizing country juggernaut Morgan Wallen's "Lies Lies Lies" is the next to be ousted. His latest #1 hit, he cracked three posters' top 10s, and had a few additional ranks in the teens, but, again, the majority of its ranks fell in the bottom 10 range. castleoblivion26 loses his #30 here.

The next 4 songs in the set finished in a pair of ties, with two songs at 256 points and the other two at 255 points, so the race for the top 20 was quite tight to say the least.

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Darkest Hour :
tim :
nuggie99 :
LBTrocks :
🌺CountryLineDancer :
SHOOTER :
austin :
kw9461 :
castleoblivion26 :
taylor is terrified :
Kris Kringle :
bboat11 :
.indulgecountry :

[.indulgecountry]

22. "28" - Zach Bryan

Total: 256

Darkest Hour : 2
austin : 5
tim : 6
Kris Kringle : 7
taylor is terrified : 15
kw9461 : 19
bboat11 : 19
George Strait Junkie : 20
🌺CountryLineDancer : 23
nuggie99 : 25
SHOOTER : 27
castleoblivion26 : 28
.indulgecountry : 30
LBTrocks : 30

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Am I Okay?
Bones
Bottle It Up
Coming Home
Cowboy Break My Heart
Cowboys Cry Too
Dammit Randy
Dick in My Nightstand
Didn't I
Free Like
Heaven by Noon
High and Lonesome
Lose You Again
Miss America
Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun)
Somewhere with Her
Son of a Gun
Sun to Me
Three Drinks Behind
Wild Horses

[.indulgecountry]

Luckily for Zach Bryan, his song "28" did not land nearly that low in the set... but a finish just outside the top 20 was the best he could manage. Bringing an offkey interesting vocal approach, he scans as quite polarizing with the country music audience on Pulse, though he has amassed quite a cult following. He ended up with four top 10s that were led by a #2 best from Darkest Hour, though he also experienced several bottom 5s that included a pair of #30s from myself and LBTrocks.

[.indulgecountry]

21. "Didn't I" - Dasha

Total: 256

🌺CountryLineDancer : 1
taylor is terrified : 8
Kris Kringle : 9
austin : 11
kw9461 : 13
LBTrocks : 15
SHOOTER : 22
nuggie99 : 23
bboat11 : 24
.indulgecountry : 24
Darkest Hour : 24
tim : 25
George Strait Junkie : 28
castleoblivion26 : 29

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Am I Okay?
Bones
Bottle It Up
Coming Home
Cowboy Break My Heart
Cowboys Cry Too
Dammit Randy
Dick in My Nightstand
Free Like
Heaven by Noon
High and Lonesome
Lose You Again
Miss America
Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun)
Somewhere with Her
Son of a Gun
Sun to Me
Three Drinks Behind
Wild Horses

[.indulgecountry]

Dasha wins the tiebreaker over Zach Bryan thanks to a #1 rank, this time courtesy of 🌺CountryLineDancer. She comes up shy of a top 20 finish for "Didn't I" by a mere 1-point margin. Her crossover appeal is a bit polarizing thus far with the Pulse audience, and it remains to be seen if she can turn the viral success of "Austin" into longterm success. She had an additional pair of top 10 ranks and a few in the teens, but she suffered from quite a few more bottom 10s than anything, including a #29 from castleoblivion26 who has now lost his bottom 2 in a matter of just a few reveals.

[LBTrocks]

What can I say? I love my country/rock jams.

[Darkest Hour]

24. Dillon James is the constant khia artist included in this series that is consistently decent to me. It helps that the production is cleaner than usual for this kind of sound.

23. I would probably rank it a bit lower in YE list because I am slightly burnt out of it, but I did like the more solemn mood for this. Better than Love Somebody as well which is a lazy attempt of being catchy.

22. Aged like milk considering it is about his ex, but melodically it sounds so much like one of the Jason Isbell songs (Volunteer) that is hard to ignore but still great and should not be bottom 10 and lower than that terrible cover.

21. We definitely need stomp and holler version of Mean in 2024 /s, but really she somehow sings worse here than Austin. Those vocals are so breathy...

[Darkest Hour]

Also don't think September reveals will happen until next year so before I forgot, is it really necessary to rank a khia pro-Trump song (Anne Wilson - Stand, that was made in response to assassination attempt) in this bloated set?

[.indulgecountry]

20. "Bones" - Russell Dickerson

Total: 255

🌺CountryLineDancer : 8
nuggie99 : 9
SHOOTER : 13
austin : 17
taylor is terrified : 17
.indulgecountry : 18
kw9461 : 20
bboat11 : 20
Darkest Hour : 20
tim : 20
George Strait Junkie : 22
castleoblivion26 : 23
Kris Kringle : 23
LBTrocks : 25

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Am I Okay?
Bottle It Up
Coming Home
Cowboy Break My Heart
Cowboys Cry Too
Dammit Randy
Dick in My Nightstand
Free Like
Heaven by Noon
High and Lonesome
Lose You Again
Miss America
Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun)
Somewhere with Her
Son of a Gun
Sun to Me
Three Drinks Behind
Wild Horses

[.indulgecountry]

In the next tie that was able to secure top 20 peaks, Russell Dickerson's "Bones" loses thanks to only yielding a pair of low top 10 ranks, indicating minimal passion for this ode to marriage dedicate to his wife (a perennial topic in his work). OTOH, four posters get a perfect ranking here as the majority had this one somewhere in the 17-23 range, so this wound up being a pretty fitting finish for Russell here.

[.indulgecountry]

19. "Sun to Me" - MGK

Total: 255

🌺CountryLineDancer : 3
SHOOTER : 7
taylor is terrified : 11
Kris Kringle : 12
bboat11 : 13
.indulgecountry : 14
tim : 17
austin : 18
LBTrocks : 23
kw9461 : 23
castleoblivion26 : 25
George Strait Junkie : 29
Darkest Hour : 30
nuggie99 : 30

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Am I Okay?
Bottle It Up
Coming Home
Cowboy Break My Heart
Cowboys Cry Too
Dammit Randy
Dick in My Nightstand
Free Like
Heaven by Noon
High and Lonesome
Lose You Again
Miss America
Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun)
Somewhere with Her
Son of a Gun
Three Drinks Behind
Wild Horses

[.indulgecountry]

Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) has traversed many genres over the years, but this year he did something pretty left-field and offered up this effective cover of Zach Bryan's "Sun to Me" which promptly went viral and charted well on Hot Country Songs, a chart he'd yet to grace previously. Not a stranger to being a polarizing artist, he managed to load up on some bottom ranks with a pair of #30s and a #29 weighing him down, but he wasn't without his fans as just under half of us opted for a top-half rank, with 🌺CountryLineDancer's #3 best allowing this to win the tiebreaker.

[.indulgecountry]

18. "Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun)" - Kaitlin Butts

Total: 252

Darkest Hour : 1
Kris Kringle : 3
George Strait Junkie : 10
tim : 18
nuggie99 : 18
SHOOTER : 18
bboat11 : 18
castleoblivion26 : 20
austin : 21
taylor is terrified : 21
LBTrocks : 24
.indulgecountry : 26
kw9461 : 27
🌺CountryLineDancer : 27

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Am I Okay?
Bottle It Up
Coming Home
Cowboy Break My Heart
Cowboys Cry Too
Dammit Randy
Dick in My Nightstand
Free Like
Heaven by Noon
High and Lonesome
Lose You Again
Miss America
Somewhere with Her
Son of a Gun
Three Drinks Behind
Wild Horses

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

I never cared for Sun To Me as a song, until I encountered this cover. I really like his delivery here, and I hope to hear more country songs from MGK. It's just a good example of how a change in vocalist and production can improve a song. 

[.indulgecountry]

Kaitlin Butts' dramatic "Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun)" off her Roadrunner! record was a polarizing option in the July set. Darkest Hour is the latest to lose their #1 rank, ironically immediately after the loss of his #30 rank, with a 3-point margin separating the two songs' finishes. She managed another two top 10 ranks, but everyone else had this bottom half, with four posters receiving a perfect ranking with its #18 finish, and a plethora more seeing a bottom 10 loss extinguished.

[.indulgecountry]

Nov 25, 2024 0:27:57 GMT -5 🌺CountryLineDancer said:

I never cared for Sun To Me as a song, until I encountered this cover. I really like his delivery here, and I hope to hear more country songs from MGK. It's just a good example of how a change in vocalist and production can improve a song. 

Same. It was a really unexpected cover and he totally nailed it. His emotive abilities are so strong and they really showed here.