Album · Katrina and the Waves
Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves
Walking on Sunshine is an album by Katrina and the Waves, released in 1983. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 21 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Walking On Sunshine”, on 20 lists and voted number one once.
Walking on Sunshine, the first full-length album by Katrina and the Waves, came out on Attic Records on December 1, 1983, and officially only in Canada. The band had formed in Cambridge in 1981 around singer Katrina Leskanich, and this is where you'll find the original version of the title track, two years before the band re-recorded it and turned it into their biggest US hit.
It's sunny, punchy new wave pop rock, jangling guitars and a singer with a voice built for belting. "Que Te Quiero" went out as a UK single and reached #84 there in January 1984. Tracking the record down is a puzzle: in Britain it circulated as Katrina and the Waves with a black and white cover, it resurfaced on the 2003 compilation The Original Recordings 1983-1984, and a 2010 CD remaster added four bonus tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Walking on Sunshine on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking On Sunshine | 20 | #1 | 1 | 1985–2026 | |
| 2 | Que Te Quiero | 1 | #28 | – | 1985 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.