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Anne Clark
Solo artist Croydon United Kingdom English poet, songwriter and electronic musician
Anne Clark is an artist from Croydon. Anne Clark has 15 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hope Road”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #14. The station that charted Anne Clark most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1987.
Anne Clark, born in Croydon in 1960, is a poet first, and her records are poems given a pulse. She speaks her words more than sings them, cool and unhurried, over cold, pulsing electronics, and the effect is somewhere between a late-night reading and a dance club emptied of everyone but you.
Her first album, The Sitting Room, came out in 1982. Joined Up Writing, in 1984, gave the countdowns "Our Darkness", a brooding, mesmerising slab of synth-driven spoken word that has kept turning up for decades. Hopeless Cases, in 1987, brought "Hope Road", her best-placed song on the charts archived here.
She has since made more than a dozen albums, and in later years she moved away from the synthesizers to work with an acoustic band, trading the chill of the machines for something warmer.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Anne Clark on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hope Road | 5 | #14 | – | 1987 | |
| 2 | Our Darkness | 10 | #71 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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