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Alison Moyet

Solo artist Billericay United Kingdom

Alison Moyet is an artist from Billericay. Alison Moyet has 16 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 1984–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “It Won't Be Long”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Alison Moyet most often is 91X (San Diego, CA / Tijuana), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1991.

16appearances

13countdowns

6songs charted

6stations

0#1 finishes

1984–2024years

Alison Moyet came out of Billericay with a voice nobody could ignore: a deep, bluesy contralto with power to spare. She first broke through fronting Yazoo, a synth-pop pair formed in 1981 (Americans got it as Yaz), and then went out on her own.

She had been known as Alf, and Alf, in 1984, became the title of her first solo album. It set the template: "Love Resurrection" and "All Cried Out" are big, soulful pop records, the voice rolling over the synths like thunder over a car park, with "Invisible" aching in between. Raindancing in 1987 brought "Weak in the Presence of Beauty", and Hoodoo in 1991 took a rougher, earthier turn with "It Won't Be Long".

She has kept it going ever since. All 10 of her studio albums and her compilations have reached the UK top 30, 2 of those records went to number one, and she has had a top-10 album in Britain in 5 different decades.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Alison Moyet on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	It Won't Be Long	292	5	#19	–	1991
2	Love Resurrection	292	6	#17	–	1984
3	All Cried Out	86	1	#14	–	1984
4	Whispering Your Name	57	1	#364	–	–
5	Weak in the Presence of Beauty	35	1	#66	–	1987
6	Invisible	29	2	#293	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

84 87 91

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2024	364	Whispering Your Name	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs
2023	627	Invisible	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s
2003	1229	It Won't Be Long	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003	1478	Love Resurrection	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002	892	Love Resurrection	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002	1302	It Won't Be Long	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
1995	293	Invisible	Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995)
1994	192	Love Resurrection	Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994)
1991	19	It Won't Be Long	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991
1991	40	It Won't Be Long	91X Top 91 Songs of 1991
1991	25	It Won't Be Long	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991
1989	174	Love Resurrection	91X Top 191 Songs of the 1980s (1989)
1988	227	Love Resurrection	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)
1987	66	Weak in the Presence of Beauty	WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1987
1984	14	All Cried Out	91X Top 91 Songs of 1984
1984	17	Love Resurrection	91X Top 91 Songs of 1984

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