The Top Chicago Electric Blues Songs on iTunes This Week
The iTunes Top 40 Chicago Blues Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of chicago electric blues — the electrified urban blues that emerged on Chicago’s South Side in the 1940s and became the foundation of rock and roll. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 chicago electric blues singles on iTunes, giving you a real-time snapshot of what’s resonating most with fans of the genre right now.
The genre has been shaped by visionaries like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, and Otis Rush who plugged in their guitars and changed music forever, whose work defines what chicago electric blues can sound and feel like. Whether the genre has centuries of tradition behind it or only emerged in recent decades, the artists on this chart are its current standard-bearers.
Discover what chicago electric blues sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Chicago Electric Blues Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-07-14
1.
How Unlucky Can One Man Be
Magic Slim, Nick Holt & The Teardrops
January 1, 1998
2.
Roll On
Champion Jack Dupree
April 22, 1968
3.
Bad Avenue
John Primer & Magic Slim & The Teardrops
February 15, 2000
4.
So Easy to Love You
Magic Slim
February 15, 2000
5.
I Made Up My Mind (feat. Magic Slim & Lucky Peterson)
Andrew Odom
January 1, 1982
6.
I'd Rather Go Blind
Chicken Shack
April 11, 2000
7.
Hoodoo Man Blues
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
November 11, 1965
8.
Sweet Black Angel
Earl Hooker
January 1, 1969
9.
Bakershop Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
May 27, 1926
10.
Doing My Own Thing-i / Can't Get Next to You / I'm a Bluesman
Vance Kelly & His Backstreet Blues Band
January 1, 2008
11.
Thee Ants Keep Biting Me
Big Bill Broonzy
January 1, 1967
12.
Help Me
Luther Allison
January 1, 1969
13.
The Thrill Is Gone (Live at The Bottom Line, New York, 1978)
Junior Wells & Buddy Guy
14.
I Shall Not Be Moved
Mississippi John Hurt
January 1, 1968
15.
Wall to Wall
Vance Kelly
July 29, 1994
16.
Didn't We (Edit)
Irene Reid
July 20, 2012
17.
Midnight Hour
Chicken Shack
January 1, 2005
18.
Lay Another Log On the Fire
C. L. Blast
July 20, 2012
19.
Tell'em I Heard It
Sandra Feva
July 20, 2012
20.
Snatch It Back and Hold It
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
November 11, 1965
21.
Strange Woman
Mud Morganfield
September 26, 2025
22.
You Don't Love Me Baby
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
November 11, 1965
23.
Chitlin Con Carne
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
November 11, 1965
24.
I'll Play the Blues for You (feat. Lucky Peterson, Titus Williams & Ray "Killer" Allison)
