We're An American Band

Momentum

This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.

Why it's here

Written by Don Brewer and produced by Todd Rundgren, the song became Grand Funk Railroad's first single to top the Billboard charts, broadening the band's appeal. [1] The song stitches together snippets of events from the band's touring life, written as an effort to garner the band more hits as FM radio shifted toward a singles-oriented format. [2] Cash Box praised the track for its powerful, chunky rhythms and meaningful lyrics. [3]

In culture

Every place this record has lived. A solid chip states a fact and carries the citation that earns it; a dashed one is a connection somebody drew, and carries their name instead.

• Written by Don Brewersource
• Covered Autographsource
• Covered Bon Jovisource
• Covered Kid Rocksource
• Covered Phishsource
• Covered Rob Zombiesource
• Covered Mr. Bigsource
• Covered Jackylsource
• Covered Poisonsource
• Covered The Clamssource
• Covered Slightest Ideasource
• Covered Raging Slabsource
• Covered Joe Lynn Turnersource

Across markets · earliest pickup first

Every date here is the date the source chart covers, never the date we fetched it. Sources publish on different lags: the Spotify mirror runs about two days behind, TurnTable publishes weekly. One recording, one history: this table also counts the rows sources published under 1 other handle of this record (remasters, official videos).

1. MarketFirst seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. Turkmenistantm · applemusic2026-09-212026-09-21#781#78
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Editions

No published edition carries this song yet. Every edition it appears in will be listed here and stay listed: an edition is immutable, so a citation to one never rots.