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Aldous Harding
Solo artist Lyttelton New Zealand New Zealand folk musician
Aldous Harding is an artist from Lyttelton. Aldous Harding has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2019–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Barrel”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #47. The station that charted Aldous Harding most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2019.
Out of Lyttelton, New Zealand, comes Aldous Harding, born Hannah Sian Topp in 1990: an indie folk singer-songwriter with a voice that stretches and bends into whatever shape a song asks for, lyrics that keep their secrets, and performances and videos that are gloriously, unapologetically odd.
Her self-titled debut came out in 2014, drawing on English folk. Then she signed to 4AD and went to Wales to work with producer John Parish, and Party, in 2017, earned her praise as one of the most original songwriters working. Designer followed in 2019, and critics heard it as warm and funny; within two months of its release it ranked seventh among the most acclaimed albums of the year on Metacritic.
"The Barrel" is its sly, springy centerpiece, all loping acoustic strum and riddling words, and it won the APRA Silver Scroll Award back home. Warm Chris, her fourth album, arrived in 2022 and kept the praise coming.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Aldous Harding on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Barrel | 6 | #47 | – | 2019 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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