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Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks
Bella Donna is an album by Stevie Nicks, released in 1981. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 122 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Edge of Seventeen”, on 75 lists with a best position of #13.
Bella Donna, Stevie Nicks's first solo album, came out on July 27, 1981, while she was still very much a member of Fleetwood Mac, and within a couple of months it was sitting at number one on the Billboard 200. Jimmy Iovine produced, and Nicks filled out her bare-bones demos by calling in friends: Tom Petty, Don Henley, guitarist Waddy Wachtel, E Street Band pianist Roy Bittan and Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, plus her new backing singers Sharon Celani and Lori Perry, who have stayed with her ever since.
The hits came four deep: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", a duet penned by Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Henley duet "Leather and Lace", the galloping, spooky "Edge of Seventeen", and the country-flavored "After the Glitter Fades". It went platinum inside three months, stayed on the chart for nearly three years and had shipped four million copies by 1990.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Bella Donna on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edge of Seventeen#330 of all time | 75 | #13 | – | 1981–2026 | |
| 2 | Stop Draggin' My Heart Around | 38 | #121 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 3 | Leather And Lace | 9 | #274 | – | 1997–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.