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Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
Innervisions is an album by Stevie Wonder, released in 1973. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 34 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Higher Ground”, on 14 lists with a best position of #177.
Innervisions, Stevie Wonder's sixteenth studio album, came out on Motown's Tamla label on August 3, 1973, and it finishes the job Music of My Mind and Talking Book had started: Little Stevie Wonder, the kid with the romantic ballads, is gone for good, and in his place stands a grown artist with something to say. Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff's T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer system was still in the room, bent by Wonder into bubbling, burbling funk, and the pair pushed him away from love songs toward politics and the spirit.
"Living for the City", the second single, is the heart of it, and "Higher Ground", "Golden Lady" and "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" fill out a record that slides between soul, funk and jazz without a seam showing. It topped the Billboard Soul LPs chart, and at the 16th Grammy Awards it took Album of the Year and Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording, while "Living for the City" won Best R&B Song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Innervisions on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Higher Ground | 14 | #177 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 2 | Living For the City | 9 | #190 | – | 2001–2023 | |
| 3 | Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing | 7 | #304 | – | 2009–2023 | |
| 4 | Golden Lady | 3 | #442 | – | 2009–2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.